Today we salut the multidimensional medicine of the vine with Barbara Gross of Cooper Mountain Vineyards!

Barbara is a visionary in organic, biodynamic, alternative viticulture. As a second generation, natural wine grower and purveyor, our guest has faced countless challenges on a daily and multi-generational scale. Her family has devoted the last 46 years to transform conventional vineyards in Oregon's Willamette Valley into thriving, biodiverse, regenerative ecosystems; specializing in the cultivation of Pinot Noir (a varietal of grape most sensitive to environmental stress and the fluctuations of climate change). Through it all, Barbara has emerged as a sort of wildly down to earth, renegade leader in the wine industry.

Tune in, pour yourself a glass of healing wine or tea and muse upon this Dionysian thought: could biodynamically farmed and alchemized wine help save our beloved Earth?

COVERED

• Barbara's legacy of wine stewardship at Cooper Mountain Vineyards
• Organic + biodynamic certification processes
• Conscious Land Stewardship
• The art and science of Pinot Noir, a delicate and climate-sensitive varietal.
• How natural wines differ from conventional in both taste and their impact on personal & planetary health
• The role of agriculture in addressing climate change, with insights into carbon-neutral farming
• How organic, biodynamic vineyards are carbon sinkholes and help sequester up to 30% more carbon than conventional methods
• The importance of embracing cycles in farming and Life
• Why a Generational Mindset is needed

OFFERING

Enjoy 15% off all biodynamic wines + balsamic vinegars from www.coopermountainwine.com with the code SOUNDFOOD.

CONNECT

Guest Name: @coopermountainvineyards | coopermountainwine.com | @bsgross1

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MENTIONED

Sideways

Willamette Valley

AOC Wine

Common Ground Film

Kiss the Ground Film

Amrita Documentary

Alan Chadwick

The One-Straw Revolution

Cooper Mountain Wine Club

Cooper Mountain Vinegars

Cooper Mountain Tocai

Gary Synder

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NOURISH

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