Now that got your attention, didn't it? Wait, this is no trick; I am really blogging about the excrement to emerge from the tail end of a dairy cow, which is used to make fertilizer for the vines. But first, let's get this gender thing out of the way. If we're talking cows, then it wouldn't be BS, would it but cowpat!
I read from the web that Carl von Schubert of the famous Maximin Grunhaus estate really kept cows for their dung. I suppose if you're obsessively organic, you'd want to make sure that the grass that the cows ate (the original material from which the dung was derived) was not crammed full of nasty chemicals, and the animals are not pumped full of hormones and antibiotics ... nothing but the most natural, for sure. So he kept his own cows and made sure they grazed on pristine pastures as well as being husbanded to his exacting standards. I wonder if he does a line in cheeses too. When I asked Marco Caprai about this at a dinner showcasing his wines from Montefalco, he replied that he did too. So this is no BS after all!!
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