The fundamental idea behind organic anything is health. There is an enormous amount of scientific evidence documenting how pesticides, weed killers, fungicides and other synthetic chemical substances damage the health of our soil. They also affect the health of plants grown in it, which in turn affects the health of the fruit and anything else in the extended chain - including you and I.
If it goes into the soil or onto a plant, it will be absorbed and transferred to whatever follows. What's the likelihood that chemically sprayed grapes grown in chemically altered soil will give us wine whose taste is unaltered?
By using conventional viticulture with pesticides, herbicides and fungicides it throws the natural harmony of a vineyard and winery completely off balance. The soil is stripped of minerals essential to its health, thus necessitating an ever-increasing reliance on artificial inputs to restore what has been lost. The chain never ends.
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