The Lesson: American winemaking is a racket. A few companies use public money to control all wine imports into our country, while artificially creating wines with additives to control shelf life, de-foaming agents, stabilizing agents, coloring agents, agents that affect the body of the wine, and even sugar additives. It’s not only that mass produced American wines are making us sick, they aren’t really even wine. Dry Farm Wines is a purveyor of natural wines that are zero sugar, low alcohol, additive free, and grown with regenerative agriculture methods free of pesticides—you know, the way the Romans did it.
Notable Excerpt: “Natural wines are grown in pretty small quantities by very small family farms. There’s not a lot of money in making wine this way because you can’t make it in great enough volumes. Back to the consolidated industry, you’ve got these giant wine companies [that] make millions and millions and millions of cases of wine. They don’t want you to know that, so they hide behind thousands of brands and labels to trick you. They want to feature a farmhouse or an animal on the label or a chateau to have you believe that you’re drinking [wine] from this place, when, in fact, most of these wines are made in giant wine factories located in the Central Valley of California.
The Guest: Todd White is founder of Dry Farm Wines, a distribution company that delivers boxes of wine from dozens of natural winemakers while ensuring the quality control with their own natural wine standard consisting of lower alcohol, zero sugar, organic or biodynamic farming, keto and vegan-friendly, additives-free, and less sulfites. Listeners interested can go to dryfarmwines.com/chriskresser to receive an extra bottle with their first order.
The Podcast: Revolution Health Radio is a deeply varied, topical podcast on functional medicine and ancestral health. It features interviews with experts in disciplines as varied as sleep and cancer to farming and strength-training.
The Host: Chris Kresser MD is a pioneer in the field of functional medicine, a discipline of working with patients to correct tendencies of exercise, sleep, nutrition, and lifestyle factors to tackle America’s growing health epidemic. He is the co-director of the California Center for Functional Medicine, and the author of New York Times bestseller The Paleo Cure, as well as Unconventional Medicine.
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