Author: Gary Conway

From the Judgement of Paris to the Judgement of Science! Luxury Wine and Paso Pacific In 1976 the Judgement of Paris made its mark.  California’s Napa Valley emerged as the new ultra-premium region overtaking elite areas of France that commanded such prominence for many years.  The event took birth in a small wine shop in Paris with no expectation of the monumental results of placing Napa Valley as a foremost region for luxury wine. Almost 50 years later we now have the Judgement of Science.   This resulted from a fast-changing climatological wine world, where previous luxury wine regions are in decline mostly due to climate disruption and compromised wine growing. In the 70's Napa had an edge over France, certainly not in wine-making expertise but viticulturally and climatologically, bound to affect wine quality and flavor.  The vineyards in Napa Valley were still on their own root, natural plants; France had long changed over to

A chronicle forthcoming We are compelled to illuminate Carmody McKnight as the only eco-honest natural wine and proven so with decades of outstanding seminal science and resonating research with astounding implications in which we must all participate.  We are deeply thankful that we can once more prove to society that wine can still be created that supports our basic needs of health, well-being and consummate pleasures. [caption id="attachment_641" align="alignleft" width="400"] Wine on the Lawn[/caption] With wine that does not foster disease but prevents it, causes me to travel back to my cherished first memory at four years old.  It was in Boston, bringing up the family wine from the cellar, lovingly made by my grandfather, Angelo, for all the family to enjoy and on which they depended for their health.  After all, wine and legitimate olive oil for centuries proved the main factors in the protection of man’s precious health well before hundreds

If we can break the cigarette habit, maybe we can do it with chemicalized wine. Do you think our fellow luxury wine makers will get rid of added chemicals? So Cool!  It doesn’t seem possible now but back in the 50's and 60's half the people in the country smoked cigarettes.  It was cool to smoke, and James Dean and Audrey Hepburn lit up cigarettes in the movies, and it looked bitchin’. It had to be okay, because we all saw the ads like "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.”  But those who cared a bit about health became aware of the pioneering UK scientist Sir Richard Doll who in the early 50's made a link between lung cancer and smoking. But no worries because we believed the big ads in Life Magazine with cute babies saying: “Gee, Dad, you always get the best of everything…even Marlboro!”  So sweet and so cool. Then,

Leading our world in sustainable farming for food and wine Nothing more precious or vital! Supporting nature’s rules, especially regarding agriculture and viticulture, treats our bodies with deserved respect.  Of all the goals of any nation (especially ours as one of most unhealthy countries on earth!) ensuring our well-being, free of man-induced chemical contamination, must dominate our concerns. The Conway journey as Paso Robles pioneers inspired unprecedented, multinational, humanly-vital research and studies.  This remarkable international endeavor over the decades now teaches every one of us where we must travel even though we are late and wandering aimlessly in that journey, as most of the giant food and wine industries divert and misinform us. Sustaining our families’ health has always been the main purpose of wine through the centuries…up until now. Does anyone know that anymore? Nutrient healthy wine must derive from nutrient healthy soil (almost non-existent in our farms) which inevitably creates the finest

Consummate Source of Nutrition Keep in mind as we examine vital science that optimum micro and macronutrients mean optimum flavors…nature’s great gift (especially for wine) that has been mostly abandoned. It has been long established by prominent university studies in plant nutrition and fertility that grapevines as well as all plants have disease resistance mechanisms, also common in animal and human immune systems, allowing the plant to tolerate certain viruses within and reveal little disease damage from those pathogens. The interaction of the plant (our body), a pathogen (disease) and the environmental conditions is known as the “disease triangle.” What are supreme “environmental conditions?”   Imperative to understand!  It is a readily available wealth of natural minerals.  As our scientific investigations demonstrated, that also means a wealth of natural flavors whether in food or wine. Have we heard any of this during the million-hour coverage of this COVID-19 pandemic?  There are no guarantees for any of us.