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Girasole is produced by Barra of Mendocino
Girasole Vineyards currently produces six varietals. Time and time again, we have heard tasters mention about
the "bright fruit flavors" of our Girasole Vineyards wines.
Charlie likes to say that he’s "been farming organically for 50 years; the first 30 I didn’t know
it. There was no organic certification process. Prior to World War II, growing without commercial chemicals and fertilizers
was standard procedure." The vineyards have been certified organic by California Certified Organic Farmers for the past 19
years.
Certification requires that our grapes are grown without conventional pesticides or herbicides, synthetic
fertilizers, sewage sludge, bioengineering, or ionizing radiation. Bell beans, red clover, peas and vetch are planted between
the rows of vines, and then, just when the flowering plants are turning to either seed or starting to bear "fruit", the plants
are turned back into the soil where they are converted to nutrients for the vines. The soils are alive with micro-organisms
that allow the vines to take up the nutrients in a more efficient manner.
THE WINES
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