Frey Vineyards — makers of sulfite-free organic wine — is offering a very nice deal:
Get 2 bottles of wine and a bunch of Equal Exchange’s fair trade organic chocolates for $29 :)
Found this via an ad on Greenlight Magazine, and thought I should share — Not everyone can take advantage of this though, due to archaic alcohol laws in the US. Says Frey’s website: “By law, WE CANNOT SHIP WINE TO THE FOLLOWING STATES: AL, AR, IN, KS, MA, MD, MS, NH, NJ, PA, UT ”
I’m so glad I don’t live in Indiana anymore –
wow.. this is elsa’s favorite combo, great gift idea. hmm.
Comment by miguel — May 16, 2006 @ 9:17 pm
Is it just me, or is their website out of commission right now? I can’t get on. :(
Comment by Gillian — May 17, 2006 @ 9:42 am
It’s working for me –
Comment by Siel — May 17, 2006 @ 9:55 am
Yeah! It’s working for me now. Thanks!
Comment by Gillian — May 17, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
On Frey – please watch the sulfite free tag! They can still pump in up to 50ppmSO2/volume to qualify as organic.Sulfites occur naturally in wine and it’s the amount of “free sulfites” in a wine that stop it oxidizing. So I doubt they strip all the sulfites out.
With my own wines, I don’t add yeasts (get it from the skins), don’t add sugars (just select good Brix levels in my grapes), I don’t add acids or carbonate or potassium busilfite, no glycerin, no bentonite etc etc etc and this year the Bordeaux yielded 45ppmSO2/volume and the SanGiovese/Mystery Variety yielded 50ppmSO2/volume.
You can’t get mor enatural than what I do , so how they get 0 sulfites is a mystery to me.
Comment by Paolo — May 18, 2006 @ 6:48 pm
Hey Paolo — I have no sulfite allergies, so am not all that concerned with the added sulfites, to be honest. I’m more into the organic grapes… but I can see how someone who’s allergic to sulfites might be concerned about the issues you bring up –
Comment by Siel — May 20, 2006 @ 10:51 pm