Is getting organic wine delivered to your door with the rest of your organic food is a dream or reality?

Getting organic wine is hard, because many local bottle shops do not carry any range of organic wines let alone organic food retailers.

I just wonder where all this organic wines are sold at?

Well, I got the chance to speak with few of winemakers at the organic expo, and I have asked them this exact question, most of them almost had the same answer: ”direct!”

70% of Australian organic wines are sold directly to consumers. This is a large percentage comparing it with the European and the US wine market.

However, this does not come without its limitations. Organic wine is expensive and one of the main reasons is the limited supply of organic wines and wineries in Australia.

One winery is reported that they sold all their wines each year via their wine club and newsletters. They did not have enough wine to supply all of their customers and each year their customers are increasingly buying more than what they can produce.

Is a good problem to have? For business is great, for wine lovers it’s a deferent story!

Unlike their counterparts, conventional wines, they find it harder and harder to sell their wines, because of the continued growth of wineries and the ever increasing of competition. Maybe it’s about time they consider adopting the organic way.

And I thought organic food was hard to get!

I would love to see an organic food retailer with a liquor license. This would make life so much easier. But finding organic food in Sydney that has a delivery service and a liquor license is almost impossible, because of the cost of the license it self.

I buy my organic food online from one company, and my organic wine from a deferent company!

I have also asked this question to a number of organic food home delivery companies and their answer was: “we do not have a liquor license!”

How hard would it be to get a liquor license? Well, I don’t personally know, I just drink it. But wouldn’t be good to be able to buy your weekly shopping and have it delivered with your favorite Shiraz or Rose. Only time will tell.

Let’s hope in the next couple of years, the organic food industry will expand to include a larger verity of products including Alcoholic beverages like wine and beer, like most of the European countries.

In the mean time, get on that wine list, and buy it direct like “almost” everyone else.

Any thought and ideas, please let me know. I would really love to hear from wineries or you if you do buy your wine direct.

Australia is the fourth largest producer of wine in the world. Australian wine has earned respect as a leader in combining tradition with new ideas and technology. Biodynamic and organic vineyards are gaining popularity in Australia, due in part to the organic movement and Australians commitment to the holistic, healthful properties of the earth.

Australian wine-makers travel the wine world as highly skilled seasonal workers, relocating to the northern hemisphere during the off-season at home. "They are an important resource in the globalization of wine” and wine critic Matt Kramer notes that "the most powerful influence in wine today comes from Australia”.

Australia has about 60 wine regions located across the country with 103 defined geographic wine growing districts.

The largest volume of wine is produced from grapes grown in the warm climate Murray-Darling Basin zones of Lower Murray, North Western Victoria and Big Rivers. In general, the higher-value premium wines are made from smaller and cooler-climate regions.

Among the most popular regions include the Hunter Valley, outside of Sydney, the Barossa Valley, in South Australia near Adelaide, and Yarra Valley, in Victoria outside of Melbourne.

In recent years, the Tasmanian wine industry has emerged as a producer of high quality wines. In particular, the Tamar Valley has developed a reputation for its Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, which are well suited to the cooler Tasmanian climate.

The major grape varieties in Australia are Shiraz (also called Syrah), Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sermillion, Sauvignon Blanc and Reisling.

The biggest, most well-known wineries in Australia inlcude Penfolds, Hardy Wine Company, Rosemount, Lindemans, and Wyndham Estates.  But when looking for exclusively organic and biodynamic wines you’ll need to look to Robinvale, Captains Creek, and Kalleske Wines.

Robinvale

Robinvale Wines have been operating since 1976, and for many years when people thought organic wine, they were the first brand, and sometimes the only brand, that spilled out of people's mouths. Now there are so many new organic wine producers in Australia, it's good to see that Robinvale aren't resting on their laurels, but continue to be innovative, leading the way with interesting new varieties

As a Certified Demeter Biodynamic wine, it's been produced using environmentally friendly, ecologically safe biological methods to activate and nurture the life of the soil, without the use of artificial or synthetic chemical pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, fertilizers and other unnecessary additives.

Captains Creek Organic Wines

This family-owned and operated vineyard in Daylesford, Victoria produces hand-crafted premium quality certified organic wines from the Burgundian grape varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. No chemical additives are used throughout the wine-making and the essential preservative sulphur dioxide has been kept to a minimum.

Kalleske Wines

In South Australia’s celebrated Barossa Valley, the Kalleske family have been farming and growing grapes since the 1800s. All wines are estate grown and vinified with minimalistic winemaking techniques used to fully capture the essence of the vineyard allowing genuine hand made estate wines to be produced. They have received the Australian Certified Organic seal on all their wines.