# 01: Regenerative Wine: Jeff O'Neill & Allison Jordan on Land Stewardship

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Podcast: [Essential Ingredients Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/essential-ingredients-podcast-1367183)
Published: 2026-07-21T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://essentialingredients.libsyn.com/regenerative-wine-jeff-oneill-allison-jordan-on-land-stewardship
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"It is getting pesticides out of the vineyard. It's making sure that when we send a worker home, they're not going home and hugging their child with any other pesticide or herbicide. It is a mission, but it does start with the dirt, and it has to flow all the way through the winery into the bottle." —Jeff O'Neill "A lot of times, people think about the environmental side of sustainability, but it's also about the social pieces— how you treat your employees, worker health and safety, and also how you exist within the community." —Allison Jordan Regenerative organic wine sounds like a buzzword — until you stand in a vineyard that's actually living it. This week, Justine Reichman sits down at Ram's Gate Winery with Allison Jordan (VP of Environmental Affairs, Wine Institute) and Jeff O'Neill (founder, Ram's Gate and O'Neill Vintners & Distillers) to unpack what real stewardship looks like when an entire industry commits to it. Key takeaways: How the California Code of Sustainable Wine Growing turned 200+ best practices into a statewide movement, covering everything from soil health to worker safety What it actually takes to earn CCOF Organic and Regenerative Organic Certification — including the 3-to-5-year soil conversion most people never hear about Why Ramsgate planted fruit trees inside its vineyard rows, and what that agroforestry bet could mean for the next 20 years The honest answer to the question every skeptic asks: Does regenerative wine actually taste as good? This conversation is proof that sustainability isn't a marketing layer — it's a rebuild from the soil up, and it's changing what "good wine" means. 🎧 Listen to the full episode now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/essential-ingredients-podcast/id1534417325 Meet Jeff: As the visionary founder and own…

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