Meet Chanterêves: Inside Burgundy's Most Admired Micro-Négociant
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What Is Natural Wine? A Plain-English Guide
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Natural wine is wine made from organically farmed grapes, fermented with wild indigenous yeasts, and bottled with nothing added and nothing taken away. No commercial yeasts, no fining agents, no added sulphites beyond trace amounts at bottling, no acidification, no concentration. Just grapes, fermentation, and time. Where did natural wine come from? The natural wine movement has its roots in France — specifically Beaujolais and the Loire Valley — where producers in the 1980s and 1990s like Marcel Lapierre and Nicolas Joly began questioning the industrialisation of winemaking. They started farming organically and fermenting with wild yeasts instead of commercial...


