Last week Paul and I had the pleasure of hosting Stu Smith, co-founder of Smith-Madrone, for dinner. We had been looking forward to this get-together for a while, but a recent controversy in the wine blogosphere added a new sense of urgency to the event.

In my welcome post, I mentioned that when given a choice, I prefer to drink organic wines, biodynamic wines, or, at the very least, “sustainable” wines. Here’s why.