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N
icolas Joly left banking in London to take over his family’s wine estate Château de la Roche aux Moines in Savennières.
At the time that he took over in 1977, Nicolas was sceptical about modern agriculture and the effect it had on nature. When he encountered a book on biodynamic farming, he took an active interest in the ideas found there and began to experiment with them in his wine estate. From 1981, the estate’s top wine Clos de la Coulée de Serrant has been made biodynamically, and from 1984, the estate’s entire range has been produced biodynamically.
Nicolas later wrote extensively about biodynamic wine production, and has served as an inspiration to many other wine producers who have converted to biodynamic practices. Like biodynamic agriculture in general, biodynamic viticulture stems from the ideas and suggestions of Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), who gave his now famous Agriculture Course in 1924, predating most of the organic movement. The principles and practices of biodynamics are based on his spiritual/practical philosophy, called anthroposophy, which includes understanding the ecological, the energetic, and the spiritual in nature. >>
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