It was not until 1980s that regenerative agriculture was coined as a term. Today, regenerative viticulture ' the cultivation of grapes ' is rapidly gaining momentum as a nature-positive growing strategy. While related to sustainability and building on organic and biodynamic practices, there is no single definition of regenerative viticulture. In fact, a 2020 review of 229 articles and practitioner websites demonstrated that the main way to define regenerative agriculture is not rules-based focusing on what is allowed or not, and instead outcome-based: namely, the outcome of improving soil health including soil organic matter. With this outcome-based approach, the key aims of regenerative viticulture are drivers of soil health restoration, undoing the damage of the industrialization of past decades and adapting to and attempting to mitigate the effects of climate change. Decades ago, synthetic fertilizers revolutionized agriculture by enabling nitrogen fixing at scale with the...
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