Tag: Natural wine

Sulphur: the enemy of terroir? Nay

With the trend for natural wine continuing, this month’s debate focuses on one of the geekier elements at play – sulphur dioxide. Today Adam Holden claims that SO2 is essential to quality winemaking and not nearly as ruinous as its reputation. The term ‘Contains Sulphites’ became a regular fixture on wines from 2002 (Council regulation […]

Natural wine: nay

Following on from yesterday’s post arguing in favour of the natural wine phenomenon, Martin Hudson MW contends that the trend represents a step backward for mankind (at least in the winemaking arena). Natural wine is one of the most divisive issues in the wine trade, with virtually no-one indifferent to it. As an unreconstructed techie, […]

Natural wine: yea

Felipe Carvallo – one of our Wine Advisors – defends the honour of the controversial ‘natural wine’ movement, espousing the idiosyncrasy of both the wines it has produced and their makers. Over the past five years or so, undoubtedly one of the biggest movements to emerge in the wine trade is that of natural wine. […]