Natural, organic, biodynamic, real wine and the people and places behind them

The wines of Savoie and Jura are often lumped together as issuing from a kind of agglomerated sub-Alpine region. In reality, they are very different in so many ways –…

Bernard Plageoles took the reins, to continue the work of his father Robert, an outspoken advocate for natural wines with a centuries old approach to winemaking. Robert Plageoles had researched…

The new appeal of orange wines The other week Susie and Peter Barrie were kind enough to interview me for their excellent podcast, Wine Blast, the pithy subjection under discussion…

As I am writing this we have just finished draining and pressing our last bunches from the 2023 Harvest.  Both our Red and Pink Pet Nats are in bottle and…

Having stuck a thousand blogs (mille tonnerres) in my back pocket – I am never going to let you forget that stat - it’s time to poke the first verbal…

Gentle winds of change in Bordeaux M’lud. All the cynical cracks made about trad Bordeaux and the culture of conservatism may be partially retracted. Whisper it not, but there are…

Occasionally, we need to remind ourselves what we first loved about natural wines. The feeling of drinking something which was elemental and pure, made without additions or protection, wine that…

Wine taste snobbery Why can’t a hybrid wine from Vermont be as good as one from Burgundy? Maybe, as Dogberry says in Much Ado About Nothing: “Comparisons are odorous.” Or…

Natural doesn’t mean the wine has to be cloudy with a cute and tongue in cheek label. Az. Agr. Summer Wolff is the culmination of decades of dreams, ideas, study,…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that we’ve had a love affair with Georgia for the past few years, and over a decade ago became one of the first companies…