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The vineyard is exploding with growth. Little shoots that started out timid in the cool spring nights are beginning to push a foot or two of growth every week. If I take even a couple days off from walking the rows, it feels like nobody's touched them in weeks. The growth is that violent. The grape clusters are still tight and small. The vines are pouring energy into canopy right now, building the shade and food source the fruit will need later. My main task right now is selecting which new growth to train up. After a few years without hard freezes taking out established canes, we're being more selective about what we train up this year. Still, we try to get at least one strong new shoot up to the wire every year. You never know when a hard freeze is coming to knock old vines back. Once those are tied up, we'll aggressively cut out the sucker vines coming up from the roots, pushing the vine to focus on canopy and fruit. This battle never really ends.

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Unfiltered, unfined wine is healthier than the fined, filtered, additive-laden slop on most shelves. Our ancestors drank wine daily and built civilizations. If you tried to do that, your life would fall apart. The alcohol content alone doesn't explain this gap. What you're drinking today is only superficially the same as what the Romans drank. Their wine wasn't stripped of all the compounds that help your body process the alcohol. It wasn't laden with additives that make the negative side-effects worse. You can just RETVRN with @PeonyLaneWine

Is drinking a glass of red wine a day healthy? For most commercially available wine, the answer is no. Surprisingly, the reason has nothing to do with unhealthy additives. It's about what gets taken out. The health case for red wine is built entirely on polyphenols. Polyphenols are antioxidants that reduce chronic inflammation and feed the gut bacteria tied to immune function. Red wine has significantly more polyphenols than white because they concentrate in grape skins and seeds, which stay in contact with the juice throughout red wine fermentation. Their volume is high in all red wine, but their bioavailability is a different story. Polyphenols need the proteins, peptides, and colloids that naturally occur in wine to slow gut transit long enough for your microbiome to convert them into something absorbable. In nearly all commercial wine, those proteins, peptides, and colloids that your body needs to process polyphenols have been filtered out. The polyphenols are still in the wine. Your body just doesn't absorb them anymore. If the wine doesn't explicitly say unfiltered, it has been filtered. Peony lane wine is unfiltered.

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Clay is one of the most common ingredients in commercial winemaking. Winemakers add bentonite to wine, where it binds to proteins and pulls them out of suspension. They settle to the bottom and get removed. Wine proteins clump and haze when exposed to heat. Bentonite removes those proteins, which is why so many commercial wines stay clear no matter how they're stored. The obvious tradeoff is texture. Proteins are part of what gives wine body and roundness. Removing them makes a wine feel thinner. Whites get fined more aggressively than reds because tannins in red wine naturally bind some of those proteins on their own. Drinking clay residue isn't the concern. That settles out and gets filtered off. The issue is how the removal of proteins changes the way your body interacts with the wine. Proteins help your body absorb polyphenols. Polyphenols are the primary reason wine has any health case at all. Remove the proteins and polyphenol absorption drops dramatically, even if the polyphenols themselves are still in the glass. Proteins also slow alcohol absorption into the bloodstream, which moderates the blood sugar spike that contributes to how rough you feel the next morning. The conversation about wine additives usually focuses on what gets added, but removal changes things too. Your body isn't interacting with each compound in isolation. Peony Lane is unfined and unfiltered. If you can't taste the difference, you'll feel it the next morning.