Best Natural Wine Region Tour Destinations Worldwide
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Natural Wine Region Tour Destinations Worldwide Natural wine - broadly, wine made with minimal intervention, from organic or biodynamic grapes, with little or no added sulphites - has gone from French farmers' fringe movement in the 1970s to a global category occupying entire restaurant cellars. The wines polarise. To devotees, they're alive in a way conventional wine isn't. To detractors, they're inconsistent, sometimes faulty, sometimes deliberately weird. Both views have evidence on their side. I started drinking natural wine seriously around 2017 after a meal in Paris where the sommelier opened a bottle of Domaine Marcel Lapierre Morgon and changed my view of what red wine could taste like. Since then I've visited producers in the Loire, Beaujolais, Etna in Sicily, and Slovenia's Brda. Most of what's below is either personal experience or borrowed from Alice Feiring's books and Jamie Good...