A Biodynamic peach harvested from Troon Vineyard & Farm’s food forest
Decades ago, on my first visit to Italy, while having lunch at a winery in Piemonte, they presented us with their farm’s peaches for dessert. It was an event that opened my eyes — and palate. I had never tasted anything so expressive, so pure, so beautifully simple. Fortunately, I was ready to comprehend the experience.
I was still new to the wine business then, but I had been learning how to taste — to focus for several years. I was ready to appreciate that peach. There are many things we eat that taste good, but few that make our life more complete—both in experiences and our quality of life. Flavors like that take me back to my grandparent’s farm. They were organic farmers and never even knew it. My memories of the flavors of my grandmother’s cooking still inspire me. That peach in Italy gave those memories back to me.
As Biodynamic farmers, we often discuss the environment and soil health, but the greatest gift of Biodynamics is how delicious things grown this way taste. In those flavors, we find produce packed with nutrition. Real flavor and health are intertwined. Perhaps the words energies and flavors should be interchangeable in Steiner’s writings.
Highly processed wine and foods cheat us. By turning up the volume on a few tastes that evolution has taught our brains we need to survive, they deceive our palates and deliver
This Article was originally published on Craig Camp
