Chemical in french wine

"In 1935, the AOC were organic" dixit eric conan (french journalist). beginning of chemistry for viticulture was end 1960

In a study dated July 22, the General Commission for Sustainable Development, shows that contamination of   French water with pesticides is "almost universal". 

In France, 2.1% of cultivated areas were devoted to viticulture in 2006. Latter consumed 20% of pesticides used in France. 

France produces 20% of the wine in the world and stays the largest producer in 2010 with 44.75 million hectoliters but every year sees decline in production in proportions varying between 2 and 5%

Total area of ​​wine regions: The total area of the wine regions of 835,805 hectares classified as AOC-PDO, PGI and French table wine.

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30,000 wineries in France

In 2014, we should reach in France 60,000 certified organic hectares, against 20,000 in 2010, more than 8% of the total surface of vineyards.

yeast is not chemical. It comes natural yeasts. It is made by the laboratory. But why give them the taste of candy synthesis? 

  A packet of yeast costs between 20 euros and 30 euros per kilo, it takes 40 grams per hectolitre / liter of wine

about 1 kilo of yeast to 22  hectoliters of wine

2,000 tons of yeast for 40 million hectoliters of wine

Averaging the spending on chemical for vines:

465,483,000 euros is spending approximately

calculating expenses yeast added

2,000 tons of yeast for 40 million hectoliters: 40 million euros

I does not have the numbers for the other inputs in the wine.

Chemistry in vines give serious diseases for growers and farmers. One estate from dordogne was sentenced for his employee got sick.

Chemistry kill yeasts on the grapes and winemakers have used yeast. For me the added yeast standardize wine

in 2012, the laboratory « excel »  analyzed  conventional wines - from book vinobuisness Isabelle saporta- , they all found residues of chemicals. In 2008, an association PAN EUROPE analyzed   blindly 

wines. Result all conventional wines had pesticide residues, but not the organic wine .

Drinking organic wines. The only wines without chemical residues from organic agriculture

But be careful there are organic wine using yeast laboratory and other input 

You have three association europe for natural wines.

in France

Avn Organic winemaker without input with little sulfur  of 30 milligrams per liter of wine 

SAINS : wineries without sulfur 

italy

Vinatura : Italian winemaker organic with little sulfur and without input

wine is good for health when it has no chemical residues read  "wine diet » from professor Roger Corder

When Robert Parker said on tweeter " Pouring further scorn on the “undefined scam called ‘natural’ or ‘authentic’ wine”, he said it would be exposed as a fraud when one considered that “most serious wines have no additives”. For me with my arguments cited above, this tweet of Robert Parker is stupidity.