Sharing Our Work: Publications, Research & Regenerative Projects
The Organic and Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference
In June 2025, Katia was invited to speak at The Organic and Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference. Her topics were:
1. Rooted in change: Cultivating a new legacy in organic viticulture
This is the story of how San Polino grew alongside an ever evolving Montalcino. A reflection on the choices we made, the land that welcomed us, and the part we’ve played in cultivating a new legacy in organic viticulture, rooted in biodiversity, shaped by collaboration, and inspired by a deep respect for place. - Click here
2. The living vineyard: Viti-forestry, mycelium networks and the awakening of vine consciousness
This is a journey through soil and thought, where vines, trees, fungi and humans become part of a shared ecology. It is about vitiforestry, mycelial entanglements, and the quiet possibility that our vineyards are not only alive but aware. And it is a reminder that good ideas, once rooted in practice, can help shape the world. - Click here
Click here (opens in new tab) for details on the conference.
Châteauneuf tackles climate change, by Katia Nussbaum (San Polino) - Published by Jancis Robinson, 2022
"I was invited as part of a journalists’ group, included because, although by no means an expert in the field, I am a winemaker and have written about ecology and vineyard philosophy in the past. As such, Jancis put me in contact with the inspirational Birte. So I found myself lucky enough to savour four days on a conference tour of Avignon and Châteauneuf. I expected it to be stimulating and it was."
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Correspondences: vines and anthropology, by Katia Nussbaum (San Polino) - Published by Jancis Robinson, 2022
"Katia Nussbaum of San Polino in Montalcino, author of last year’s coronadiary and this stimulating discussion of biodynamics, was particularly struck by the winning article submitted by our 2021 writing competition winner Chris Howard, a researcher and anthropologist currently based in New Zealand. The result is a fascinating correspondence that we are publishing in four parts this week".
Click here (opens in new tab) to read the published correspondence between Katia Nussbaum and Chris Howard.
Matters of Mycelium in Montalcino, by Katia Nussbaum (San Polino) - Published by Jancis Robinson, 2021
"I am writing this on the evening of a beautiful spring day, the magical time of year when every living thing around us at San Polino seems to be waking up in a rush of cheeping birds, buzzing bees, fluttering butterflies and budding vines."
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Katia's Diary, by Katia Nussbaum (San Polino) - Published by Jancis Robinson, 2020-2021
Click here (opens in new tab) to read Katia's Italian Coronadiary, published by Jancis Robinson at the height of the pandemic
San Polino 2014 – an Unlikely Odyssey, by Katia Nussbaum (San Polino) - Published by Jancis Robinson, 2020
"Many will remember Katia Nussbaum’s coronadiary earlier this year and her earlier forensic and inspiring Biodynamcis – new approach needed? Here she tells the tale of one of the most difficult Tuscan vintages ever, and how a fancy-dress party ended in disaster."
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Biodynamics – new approach needed?, by Katia Nussbaum (San Polino) - Published by Jancis Robinson, 2019
"Katia Nussbaum of San Polino in Montalcino argues that we need to reframe biodynamics for the twenty-first century. After long discussions with her, Walter Speller persuaded her to write this very personal, wide-ranging essay."
Click here (opens in new tab) for the full article and a response to the article by Nigel Greening
Dark Matters: The Vitiforestry Project at San Polino
In Collaboration with AIAF (Associazione Italiana Agroforestazione) and the Porto Protocol.
Read Katia's presentation about the Vitiforestry Project at San Polino here (opens in new window).
Click here for details on our collaboration with AIAF (opens in new tab).
Carbon Insetting Project
(in collaboration with Deep Planet and Alliance Wines)
Click here (opens in new tab) for the outline of the project and here for the map
Amazonia Biodiversity Estimation Using Remote Sensing and Indiginous Taxonomy, by Luigi Fabbro (San Polino) - ResearchGate, 2009
"This project aims to set up and test a methodology for the assessment of the biological diversity of Amazonia, by applying the knowledge and know-how of the local communities of the region and integrating the outcome with information obtained by remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, appropriate to the requirements of the indigenous and local communities."
Click here (opens in new tab) to read Gigi's research paper, presented at the European Space Agency in Gothenburg