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

  La Stoppa is an ancient estate extending over 52 hectares, thirty of which are planted with vines, surrounding an elegant medieval tower. In 1973, the estate was acquired by…

Today, I was shopping in the local farmer’s market. The weather was beautiful and energising – high pressure prevailed, cloudless skies vibrated with blueness, and the air was the perfect…

Age is not a number, except when it is. Old vines is not the same thing as old grape varieties. These latter were usually indigenous to a region and drunk…

“Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”  -Terry Tempest Williams   Every so often, when there…

It is a fact not universally acknowledged (and easily forgotten) that Les Caves has been rubbing shoulders with a notable and varied selection of wine wizards from Oz for quite…

What price pricing Whenever I hear the words natural wine, I reach for my wallet – and put it away. There has been talk abroad of the cost of natural…

It has been a difficult January and February. Firstly, the sun seems to have packed its luggage and gone on holiday. By the time you read this, we will be…

We do like Mondeuse (with apologies to The Boomtown Rats) Louis Magnin is the third generation of the domaine of some 8-hectares spread between Arbin and Montmélian. Organic since 2009,…

We first started working with Dominique Belluard, an artisan-vigneron in the village of Ayse in the Haute-Savoie, almost in the shadow of Mont-Blanc, in summer 2003. We first shipped his…