Natural wine seems to be popping up everywhere these days, but what exactly does «natural» mean?
Natural wines result from leaving the grapes to naturally do their thing, and as a result, they're free of additives like yeast, sulfur, and pesticides.
Look
in natural wine bars or boutiques (use «pét - nat» as your code word — salespeople and sommeliers will know what you mean).
Classic bistros, kitchen shops, and chocolatiers are just as exciting as
natural wine bars in the chicest arrondissement.
In this world, Campbell is «a fantastic, fairly unique individual,» says Tom Lubbe, a South African who
makes natural wine at his Domaine Matassa, in France's Rousillon region.
Rotating cocktails and a mostly
natural wine list balance out the food's strong flavors.
I have heard excellent things
about natural wine maker Pinard et Filles which I suggest you seek out (and let me know how it is!).
Settle, North Yorkshire About Blog Buon Vino is an independant company based in The Courtyard, Settle, specialising in
natural wine from small producers around the world.
The world's biggest producer of
natural wine corks is in Portugal and last year sold 3.2 billion of them.
When a barista came over to say hi, they all took turns bemoaning the tastes of Australians, who are so used to wines that «kick in your teeth» that they think subtler
natural wines taste like «dishwater.»
Adam Fox, vice president of sales for Domaine Select Wine and Spirits and Hucks» partner in former pop - up supper club Dogwood Table, has curated a thoughtful wine list that highlights
natural wine producers from independently owned farms practicing biodynamic wine making.
Located two hours north of Cape Town, the region is home to an array of boutique, (primarily) family - run wineries that produce
mostly natural wines.
The type of acidity present in wine plays a big role in the mouthfeel: a wine that has gone through malo is more rounded and full, the acidity is more supple, which is why
natural wine makers like it.
And you're
drinking natural wines and eating tinned seafood, surrounded by gallery posters and a 1972 Citroen.
With increasing demand for its
premium natural wine corks, M.A. Silva Corks, USA has expanded its sales organization for the second consecutive year.
Writer, columnist and
natural wine specialist Simon Woolf won the 2015 Born Digital Award for best editorial / opinion wine writing.
2014 Pinot Noir Domaine Sylvain Pataille, «Les Longeroies», Marsannay (
natural wine master, yet, oh so refined) 130
I kept one example open for four months — an experiment I talk about in my
book Natural Wine.
Stephen Andressen, from Portsmouth, asks: My wife wants to have nothing
but natural wines in the house from now on.
Eventually, she landed at Louis / Dressner, the importer that helped
introduce natural wine to the U.S., with Tarlow as a top client.
As we picked over a shared plate of roasted Brussels sprouts, Campbell told me that far from forcing anything natural onto her lists, «there's a lot of [bad] natural wine out there,» so her job is to avoid that entirely.
Tarlow had been buying wine for the group himself for years, and had gravitated
toward natural wine as the movement gained ground in New York.
Legeron launched
RAW Natural Wine Fair, a two - day tasting with over 100 producers, in 2012 in a converted brewery in Shoreditch, London.
«We make a lot of noise,» Legeron says of
natural wine devotees, «but we're a big fish in a small pond, in a way.»
Guys, this is what makes
natural wine so amazing: the care and thoughtfulness that goes into each harvest!
The
best natural wine — drinking experience in Charleston is not in Charleston at all.
Purists insist that
truly natural wine be grown organically, harvested by hand, fermented with yeast native to the growing region, and bottled without high - tech fiddling with oxygenation and alcohol levels, and without added sulfites.
It's a way to
bring natural wine lovers together, and it's also a way to promote a nascent industry: «When growers stop coming to us [because they don't need us],» she says, «we've done our job.»
New York's Marlow & Sons has their exclusive house wine made
by natural wine stunner Hervé Villemade; Shake Shack's house wines are made exclusively by Napa's Frog's Leap; and San Francisco's ATwater Tavern has two custom blends made by winemaker Tyler Elwell of Halcyon.
We recently tasted over 15 different wines from the RAW Wine fair, an independent wine fair
celebrating natural wines, created by Isabelle Legeron MW (Master of Wine!
We're back at the Markthalle Neun and delighted to be hosting over 150 of the world's best low - intervention organic / biodynamic /
natural wine growers & makers once again for the fair.
The Four Horsemen, the convivial new wine bar and restaurant in Brooklyn opened by James Murphy of dance - punk band LCD Soundsystem is less a dimly - lit wine bar for buttoned - up date nights and more a restaurant with an
extensive natural wine list designed for fluid evenings.
We spoke to Murphy, his wife and founding partner Christina Topsøe, chef Nick Curtola, general manager and
natural wine expert Katrina Birchmeier, wine consultant Justin Chearno, and founding partner Randy Moon to find out.
Guests clinked Dry
Farm natural wines while eating fig & ricotta crostini made with Kite Hill dairy - free ricotta and lemon zest.
We always stick to
natural wines whenever possible, which are grown organically and lab tested to have no mold and mycotoxins or additives.
Bottoms Up
Inexpensive Natural Wines That We Love Its more affordable than you might think to drink natural, eco-friendly wines: Organic, biodynamic and other forms of chemical - free farming are already common among quality wine producers.