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What is “natural" wine?

Wine comes from grapes, which come from nature…therefore isn’t all wine “natural”? This is a valid question that is n...

Is natural wine better for me?

Besides the obvious benefits such as not ingesting pesticides from non-organically farmed wine, or processing chemica...

Does natural wine taste different than conventional wine?

“I want a funky, stinky, cloudy—like the weirder the better—natural wine! What would you suggest?” This is a request ...

What are common wine flaws and what do they taste like?

Even if you love the “barnyard” funk (previously discussed under the Taste section), there’s a point at which it gets...

Does some natural wine benefit from aging?

The vast majority of wine—over 90 percent, natural or not—is made for consumption without aging. Especially those in ...

Serving Natural Wine - at what temperature should we serve it?

As far as temperature for drinking natural wine is concerned, you can follow the same general guidelines for traditio...

What is orange / skin-contact wine?

Made from orange peel of course… You didn’t fall for that, right?  Orange wine is simply wine made from white grapes ...

What does “no added sulfites" mean?

As mentioned in our introduction to natural wine, sulfites (or SO2) may be added to act as a preservative, or in an a...

What does unfined/ unfiltered mean?

“Essentially, there are three options for the wine grower: time, cloudiness, or intervention.” ~ Isabelle Legeron MW ...

What is the difference between organic, biodynamic, and sustainable farming?

People generally see the sort of hierarchy of “natural-ness” in wine as the following:  This is a bit of a misconcep...