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70 th Annual Georgia Mountain Fair
^ August 13th - 21st
JKML Summer Line-Up
Vintage Vixens & July 4 th Fireworks!
Sunday, July 4 th
Free Admission! Free Parking!
Dwight Yoakam
Saturday, July 31 st
Tickets: $47+fees per person
70 th Annual Georgia Mountain Fair
Daily from August 13 th - August 21 st
Family Fun! Live Music! Arts & Crafts! Rides!
Gene Watson, Janie Fricke, Marty Haggard
Saturday, September 4 th
Tickets: $35 - $45+fees per person
TobyMac
Saturday September 11 th
Tickets: $40 - $60 +fees per person
Dailey & Vincent Landfest in the Mountains
Daily from September 16 th - 18 th
Bluegrass! Country! Gospel!
Concerts Camping Events
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WITH CARRIAGE HOUSE
Demystifying the ‘dean’
wine movement
In recent years, there has been a lot of
talk among wine drinkers, environmentalists,
and health nuts about natural, organic,
biodynamic, sustainable, and otherwise
“clean” wines. There are restaurants that
exclusively sell natural wines such as 8arm
in Poncey Highlands, multi-level marketing
wine clubs that are dedicated to offering
only “clean” wines (a very gimmicky way to
say chemical-free), and wine retailers that
focus on all of the above such as our shops,
Vinoteca and 3 Parks Wine Shop.
But the question is, why? What does all
this wine jargon mean? Admittedly, it can be
complicated.
This may come as a surprise to our
readers, but there is quite a bit that goes
into making conventional wine. And we
don’t mean the amount of work it takes to
make the wine, we mean the contents that
can be added to wine. In fact, there are over
60 approved “materials authorized for the
treatment of wine and juice.” That’s 60+
manufactured materials that are acceptable to
use in filtering, clarifying and purifying the
wine. YIKES!
We would be remiss if we did not explain
this further; hopefully providing a general
understanding of what you may or may not
be drinking when consuming wine.
Natural wine — we prefer to call it wine
with minimal intervention — is wine in
its purest form; essentially from grape to
bottle. Think organic farming and almost
no intervention in the winemaking process.
These wines are usually unfiltered which
leads to cloudiness and sediment. Natural
wine can even be described as funky or wild.
You can also find minimal intervention
wines at Perrine’s Wine Shop, Miller Union,
Ticonderoga, and Lucian Books & Wine.
The winemaker and harvest team
avoid pesticides and herbicides and even
pick the grapes by hand. They produce
the wine without additives, chemicals,
sugar, laboratory yeast, processing aids and
preservatives like sulfites. Many natural
winemakers strive for “Zero/Zero,” meaning
nothing’s added and nothing’s removed.
Let’s break this down a bit more and look
deeper into organic wines. A wine labeled as
organic comes from vineyards that have not
been treated with pesticides, herbicides, or
Women + Wine
Katie Rice & Sarah Pierre
Rice owns VinoTeca in Inman Park
and Pierre owns 3 Parks Wine Shop in
Glenwood Park.
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any other chemicals. Hooray, no Roundup!
We wish this requirement were the bare
minimum in wine production in the United
States, but regrettably, it’s not.
Keep in mind, there is no guarantee that
you will be able to identify an organic wine
by simply perusing the wine aisles in your
grocery store of choice, especially if the wine
has not been certified organic. If the wine
is certified, there are a number of symbols
or indicators on the label such as USDA,
LEED, LIVE, and Demeter, just to name a
few.
Since getting certified is expensive,
many small producers use organic
farming practices, but don’t pay for the
formal certification. Ask your local wine
retailer about the producers’ farming
practices to discover some real gems. POE
Wines, one of our favorite producers in
California, is farming organically with
minimal intervention, zero additives in the
winemaking process, and a minimal amount
of sulphur used only for stabilization. If you
turn over a bottle of winemaker Samantha
Sheehan’s Pinot Noir, you won’t find any
stamps notating an organic product but there
is no denying that her wine is organic.
And then there’s biodynamic. Developed
a century ago by Rudolf Steiner, biodynamic
agriculture is the holistic approach to treating
the land and the earth as one unit.
To some, this may seem a touch witchy,
but to many farmers, this is the only way.
The winemaker tends to the land using nine
different biodynamic compost preparations
- an organic mixture composed of plants,
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