Biodynamics is a production technique that aims to promote organic agriculture and excludes the use of fertilizers and pesticides of synthesis. The majority of treatments are based on sulphur and copper. Before 2012 only agriculture was regulated but after this year a new form of viticulture is born. especially thanks to the main independent labels such as Demeter Biodyvin natural and progress thus promoting instructions and specifications stricter and incorporating a dimension ranging from agriculture to winemaking to the relationship of the vine to the fauna and flora and also to man. Biodynamics is defined as no additions and no modifications and a vinification respectful of biodynamic practices, which tend towards the abolition of any input and the use of any practice aimed at modifying the natural balance of the grape.
One can ask oneself how biodynamics is put into practice? Indeed, many notions are dictated as to the practice of biodynamics. Biodynamics uses phytotherapy, in fact, biodynamics uses sprays based on plants such as nettles, horsetail, valerian, sage... Minerals are also used to energize the life of the soil and strengthen the vine, this practice is called phytotherapy, which helps to better resist attacks from diseases or frost. As you may have guessed, all chemical products are strictly forbidden in biodynamic agriculture. This practice even boasts of being even stricter than organic farming. Some farmers will even study the lunar cycles and work their vines according to them, the usefulness of this lunar practice has yet to be proven even if some winegrowers testify that the reduction was more noticeable during descending moons.
Biodynamics also takes a different look at diseases, in fact in traditional cultures the disease is identified, studied and then a remedy is sought to counteract the consequences of the disease. In biodynamics it is the opposite, the pathogen that appears is seen as a direct consequence of a deeper problem of the plant, the winegrowers go to the origin of this imbalance and no longer to the symptom, hence the desire to vitalize the soil with the application of organic preparations as we have seen and thus promote a stable ecosystem
As for the additives, the authorized sulfur rates are much lower. However, there are all types of cultures that are even more restrictive, notably the appellations Naturel and SAINS, which are respectively made with between 30 and 40 mg per liter of sulfur, and 0 trace for the SAINS appellation.