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Free Bacchus Country Guide

13 countries and counting, region by region

Where the major wine regions of the world are, what the ground and the weather do to what is grown in them, and which growers inside them we have verified. 127 regions across 13 countries, and every certificate behind them read in the register that issued it.

One country to a screen, thirteen of them. This button follows you down the page — open it to skip straight to any country.

The hilltop town of Saint-Émilion in Bordeaux seen from above, its Romanesque bell tower rising over limestone houses and tiled roofs, with vineyards running out to the horizon behind it.

France

Twenty-two per cent of the French vineyard was farmed organically by 2023, up from six per cent in 2010. Then it fell for the first time. The appellation rules had nothing to do with either.

67 verified producers9 regions

Bordeaux · Burgundy · Champagne · Rhône Valley · Loire Valley · Languedoc-Roussillon · Alsace · Provence · Jura

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Vineyard rows and olive groves on rolling hills, cypresses and stone farmhouses along the ridge, a mountain behind under cloud

Italy

Italy farms 22.6 per cent of its vineyard organically and sells six per cent of its wine that way. That gap is what this page is about.

37 verified producers15 regions

Tuscany · Piedmont · Veneto · Sicily · Puglia · Emilia-Romagna · Lombardy · Trentino-Alto Adige · Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Campania · Basilicata · Abruzzo · Marche · Umbria · Sardinia

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Rows of vines in full autumn yellow running downhill toward wooded ridges, with a low sun breaking over the hills behind

United States

About six per cent of California’s wine grapes are certified organic. In Napa, the state’s most expensive vineyard land, it is about fifteen.

32 verified producers10 regions

Napa Valley · Sonoma County · Mendocino County · Willamette Valley · Columbia Valley · Central Coast · Finger Lakes · Texas Hill Country · Virginia · Applegate Valley

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Autumn vineyards in gold and green running down to a village of red-tiled roofs and a fortified church with a tall spire, wooded hills behind

Austria

Austria lost its wine exports to an adulteration scandal in 1985 and rebuilt on proof. A quarter of its vineyard is now certified organic.

22 verified producers4 regions

Niederösterreich · Burgenland · Steiermark · Wien

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Four kangaroos crossing a dirt track through dry grass at dawn, gum trees and mist lying in the valleys behind

Australia

Just over one per cent of Australia’s vineyard is certified organic. That makes the certificate worth more here, not less.

21 verified producers15 regions

Barossa Valley · Margaret River · McLaren Vale · Hunter Valley · Yarra Valley · Coonawarra · Clare Valley · Adelaide Hills · Tasmania · Mornington Peninsula · Eden Valley · Heathcote · Beechworth · Mudgee · Henty

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Rows of vines running away to a hilltop village with a fortified church standing above it, and hazy mountain ridges behind

Spain

Spain has the world’s largest vineyard, and 166,286 hectares of it are in organic production — eighteen per cent of its own, up nearly eleven per cent in a single year.

20 verified producers14 regions

Rioja · Ribera del Duero · Priorat · Castilla-La Mancha · Jerez · Penedès · Rías Baixas · Rueda · Sierra de Gredos · Aragón · Castilla y León · Bierzo · Mallorca · Canary Islands

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A vineyard block in low golden light on a dry hillside above a lake, a road running along the shore and bare ranges hazy behind

New Zealand

98 per cent of New Zealand’s vineyard is certified sustainable. Ten per cent of wineries are certified organic. The second number does the work.

19 verified producers10 regions

Marlborough · Central Otago · Hawke's Bay · Gisborne · North Canterbury · Wairarapa · Nelson · Auckland · Northland · Waitaki Valley

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A range of snow-streaked peaks lit rose-pink at first light above a dark band of conifers, the whole range mirrored in a still lake.

Canada

Canadian vines have to survive the winter first. A guide to Canada's wine regions and the seventeen organic estates verified in them.

17 verified producers7 regions

Niagara Peninsula · Okanagan Valley · Prince Edward County · Similkameen Valley · Vancouver Island · Quebec · Nova Scotia

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Vineyard rows running downhill in the Cape winelands, a valley of small farms and dams beyond them, and the bare rock of the Drakenstein mountains closing the horizon under a clear sky.

South Africa

More than 95 per cent of South African wine is certified sustainable and under one per cent is certified organic. The country’s environmental record is written on the land it does not farm.

13 verified producers8 regions

Stellenbosch · Swartland · Paarl · Constantia · Franschhoek · Robertson · Walker Bay · Elgin

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The granite spires of Monte Fitz Roy, on the border between Chile and Argentina in Patagonia, above a glacier and a turquoise lake under a deep blue sky.

Chile

Phylloxera has never reached Chile, and its vines can still grow on their own roots. A guide to its wine regions and the twelve estates verified in them.

12 verified producers7 regions

Maipo · Colchagua · Maule · Casablanca · Aconcagua · San Antonio · Itata

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A town strung along a shoreline at dusk beneath a long range of snow-covered mountains, its lights doubled in still water under an orange sky.

Argentina

Argentina's organic vineyard has grown 185 per cent in ten years. A guide to its wine regions and the eleven estates verified in them.

11 verified producers7 regions

Valle de Uco · Luján de Cuyo · Maipú · San Juan · Salta · Río Negro · Chubut

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A gap in the trunk of an old tree framing terraced vineyard slopes below a wooded crag, with a village of red roofs at the foot of them

Germany

Germany is the wettest, steepest, coldest place on this site to try farming without spray. Fifteen per cent of its vineyard does it anyway.

10 verified producers7 regions

Mosel · Rheinhessen · Pfalz · Franken · Württemberg · Rheingau · Baden

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A tunnel of vermilion torii gates running downhill over a paved stone path, each upright inscribed with black characters

Japan

Japan defined its own wine in 2018 and its own sake in 2015. Organic farmland is eight tenths of one per cent. A guide to its wine, sake and umeshu regions and the ten producers verified in them.

10 verified producers14 regions

Yamanashi · Hokkaido · Nagano · Yamagata · Nadagogo · Niigata · Kyoto · Shiga · Hakusan · Tottori · Wakayama · Fukushima · Kanagawa · Ishikawa

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