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Non-Profit Spotlight – Sweet Farm About Sweet Farm Sweet Farm is the first non-profit sanctuary in the world to address the global impacts of factory farming across animals, the plants and the planet. Our food web is incredibly complicated and it’s impossible to move forward without first acknowledging how these pieces are connected. By linking…

Regenerative Organics – the deep dive into what it is and why its important Regenerative Organics – what does this term mean? Regenerative Organics – What does this mean? How is it different from organic? All of us are familiar with the term, “organic” and most of us have spent at least some time at…

Négociants – what’s that? Noun. négociant (plural negociants) (wine) A wine merchant who purchases grapes, grape juice, or wine in bulk from vineyards, and bottles the wine for sale. Some of the very largest and most well regarded wine companies in the world are négociants, like Joseph Drouhin and Louis Jadot. At Mercantile we work…

Domaine Rieflé – literally 100’s of years of experience Brief overview of the Alsace, France region Domaine Rieflé’s vineyards are located throughout the communes of Pfaffenheim, Rouffach, Westhalten and Soultzmatt on the fracture zones of the Marbach and Ohmbach faults. They form a mosaic of highly fragmented geological compartments. Our Crémant parcels are generally situated…