Joe Zwick started Zwick wines in 2013, working only with sustainable

Sustainable viticulture is the journey of continually improving one's ability to minimize farming's environmental and social footprints by avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in order to to promote soil health, with an ethos that also takes into account energy use, water use, farm biodiversity, climate change and worker welfare and safety are issues.

or organically farmed vineyards that are not irrigated, from cooler climate locations in the Willamette Valley. For "Only Zuul" he combines pink-skinned grapes, Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer, for a skin-contact wine that is more on pink scale than orange - but whatever you'd like to call it -it's one of the most delicious and joy-inducing wines in our shop. organic

Maintaining agricultural systems without the use of feed or fertilizer of plant or animal origin, and without employment of chemically formulated fertilizers, growth stimulants, antibiotics, or pesticides

practices.