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The ecological agriculture, also known as
biological, is define as a summary of agrarian techniques which
normally exclude the use of chemical synthesis products, like fertilisers
or herbicidal, in order to preserve the environment, maintain or
increase the soil fertility and provide wine with all its natural
attributes.
An ecological vineyard culture cannot be cultivated
with herbicidal because it eliminates not only the weed but also
destroy the bacterial activity. This culture forbids the systematic
use of fungicides because the vine absorbs them and conserves them
in its sap and eventually they end up in human body. Only the use
of cobber and sulphur employed as fungicides are admitted in a very
limited use. The use of sulphurous is also restrain.
In Spain, this activity is legally regulated
since 1989, with the Ecological Agrarian Production Council. Wines
made with organic grapes have a specific tag and logo of the Organisation.
The wine resulting from this ecological agriculture
is full of fragrances, with nice colour and well balanced.
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