Sidney Stevens is a writer and editor for magazines, websites, and books, with a focus on health and environmental issues. Organic wines — made from grapes and other ingredients grown without ...

Ever since Wal-Mart began stocking organic food, it’s clear a lot of consumers now believe that produce and milk produced without pesticides or hormones taste just as good as, if not better than, ...

Organic food has a reputation for being healthier than conventional, and there’s some evidence for that. But when it comes to organic wine, the health benefits are much less clear, experts say. And ...

Earth Day, coming up next week, was created to heighten environmental awareness. Each year, inevitably, the distinction draws consumers' attention to organic foods. And some of this focus also shifts ...

Intellectually, I want to embrace organic wines and welcome them to my dinner table. But as a wine writer, for the longest time I resisted talking about them because they weren’t as flavorful or ...

The organic wine industry is doing well. More and more people want to drink organic wines and are also prepared to pay a higher price for them. Now is a good time to ask, what is organic wine? Is ...

Great wine begins with great grapes, and for more and more winemakers that means grapes grown without the use of artificial fertilizers or pesticides. While some wineries have been doing it the ...

The Consumers Green Wine Shopping List: Winners from the first-ever International Green Wine Competition in Santa Rosa, Calif. The USDA provides the guidelines for its two labels, “organic” and “made ...

Are organic wines just an overpriced gimmick or the saviour of the wine industry? It’s a fairly bold question and one that I won’t be able to answer succinctly, I’m afraid. But they certainly are a ...

This sounds familiar: a national consumer group is fighting to maintain organic standards against industry people who want to weaken them. But when it comes to “organic wine,” the well-meaning ...