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Price paid at auction for one bottle of Texas wine purchased by rapper Fifty Cent. Best known for a song that suggests he can be found ‘in da club’ with a ‘bottle full of bub’, Fifty Cent bid high on the 2017 Hye Meadow Winery “Boooom Red”, from the High Plains appellation. The wine is a blend of Negroamaro, Montepulciano, Aglianico and Sangiovese, and just won Top Texas Wine at the 2022 Houston Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition, beating 480 other entrants from the state.

Biodynamic farming, a practice that views a vineyard as a regenerative and living organism, was first practiced in vineyards in California.

Answer: False.

The first well known winery to practice biodynamic farming was in France, in the Loire Valley. It's name: Coulée de Serrant. As developed by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s, and later expanded on by his followers, biodymanics is a holistic system of living agriculture whereby the soil and plants growing in it are nurtured through natural forces. Biodynamics envisions soils and plants as living in a sort of middle world influenced from below by the forces of the earth, and influenced from above by the cosmos. So for example, vines are fertilized using compost created on the farm and are pruned according to the movement of the moon through the twelve houses of the zodiac—all in order to achieve ultimate harmony with the forces of Nature.

“In nothing have the habits of the palate more decisive influence than in our relish of wines.”

—Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United State

(whose birthday is today)

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