Domaine Bousquet is an Argentine organic producer in the Uco Valley in southern Mendoza. The estate is already a well-known organic producer exporting worldwide. Bousquet recently became the fourth wine producer to receive the new ROC certification, Regenerative Organic Certified. Yes, yet another certification. Tablas Creek Vineyard in California was the initiator of the ROC, and the other two ROC-certified are Fetzer, also in California, and Troon Vineyard in Oregon.
There is a lot of talk about regenerative viticulture right now. What distinguishes it from organic viticulture is not apparent. Perhaps it is the extra emphasis on the health of the soil, the importance of biodiversity, that no ground should be left bare and that one should plough and move the soil as little as possible (no-tilling) and preferably not at all.
But there is a lot of overlap with organic farming. (One big difference is that certification for “organic” is simple, it is the same all over the EU and in most of the rest of the world.)
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