If you’re concerned about the effect of pesticides on your body and buy organic milk and vegetables at the supermarket, here’s something that you may not have thought about. Wine is big business, and in the industrial wine farming sector, pesticide use is commonplace as one of the methods used to increase yields. And then there are the additives. Do you check to see if you recognise the names of what’s added to the food you eat? Then you may have noticed that wine makers don’t afford you the same courtesy of telling you what they put in the wine that you drink.  Many wines include isinglass (made from fish bladders, making the wine unsuitable for vegetarians), sulphur (as preservative) and glucose (to increase the natural alcohol levels).

So, how do you find wine that doesn’t have a detrimental effect on the environment where the wines are grown, and on your body (apart from the hangover of course, I don’t have the answer to that conundrum)?  Simple, check out the range of organic wines from Vintage Roots that support sustainable farming.