Grapes are one of the most important fruits to buy organic due to their water content and thus pesticide content after they’re continually sprayed during the growing season.

So…if you only eat organic grapes then you should probably only drink organic wine, right?  It is getting a lot easier to find organic wine so now is definitely a good time to start making a conscious effort to have more and more of your wine be organic. 

Trader Joe’s occasionally will have organic wine, but not often so normally I pick mine up at Whole Foods.  For a great basic red wine I like Our Daily Red both for the taste and the low price of $7.99!

Brian Howard Clark has a nice article on The Daily Green helping to decipher between the difference in organic labeling.

100% Organiccarries the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) organic seal (the certifying agency must be listed) and indicates the wine is made from 100% organically grown ingredients and has been monitored throughout its entire production process. This wine can contain only naturally occurring sulfites (or sulfur dioxide, an antimicrobial substance) in less than 100 parts per million (ppm).

Organic also carries the USDA organic seal and indicates the wine has 95% organically grown ingredients (the other 5% must not be available organically). Again the certifying agency must be listed and the wine has the same sulfite requirements as 100% organic.

Made with Organic Grapes or Made with Organic Ingredientsmeans the wine contains at least 70% organic ingredients. It can have artificial sulfites added, but it may not contain more than 100 ppm. (It does not have the USDA organic seal.)