Biodynamic: Climate Change word of Illy.

'In the face of climate change and the best answer' - said Illy, the Brunello wine grower in the district for 15 years - to enrich the soil and reduce CO2 emissions by planting trees.''

Francesco Illy, one of the brothers of coffee 'quality', which sells wine in Montalcino, as president of Podere Le Ripi and vice president of the family winery, Mastrojanni.

'' If you plant a tree - said Illy - in a year recovered 66 kg of waste and increases the organic matter of the soil to be able to create trees in the desert, as the experience of Sekem in Egypt, the great company from biodynamic 1977 trees planted in four semi-desert areas of the Nile delta and the Suez Canal, creating a big farm and also industrial cotton (...). Our wineries - he added - are carbon absorber, but it is mainly a model for a territory so 'suited as Montalcino and' always more 'green' (...). Today there 'row that does not have this technique of preservation of the land, which was adopted in both the traditional biodynamic viticulture. The biodynamic also - as 'more work and this motivates even more' who does manual harvesting. As is the case in the 54 hectares of woods, vineyards and olive groves Podere Le Ripi where, however, all workers are Italian,'' said Francesco Illy in declaring'''' contrarissimo to genetic interventions.

Source: Agi