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Consumers to drive transparency in wine
Increasing consumer awareness of food and drink additives will drive transparency in the wine trade, believes Isabelle Legeron MW. Isabelle Legeron MW As organiser of natural wine fair RAW, Legeron has...
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Help! I’ve Fallen and Can’t Get Up—The Natural Wine Edition
It nearly time again for what now appears to be an annual celebration of unsubstantiated and unsupported claims and assertions about wine. It’s time again to denigrate 99% of the worlds wine and...
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WINE IDEAS—What if, Imagine, If Only
• What if restaurants provided their customers with $0.10, one-ounce pours of wine immediately upon seating and changed up the wine every evening? • Imagine if there were an annual, televised,...
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Impressions of the Natural Wine Movement
I just can’t help but wonder how typical of the average active wine drinker is Lettie Teague’s assessment off her exploration into the meaning and taste of “Natural” wine. Teague, a respected and...
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Dirty, Grimy Wine Marketing
“I think we’ve been living in ‘Parkerworld’ for the last few decades, and many consumers are fed up with homogenized supermarket wines, and now need a bit of singularity, uniqueness and authenticity,...
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Wild Yeast Fermentation: “There’s No Such Thing”
Some fairly stunning information concerning the idea of “Wild” or “Indigenous” yeast is coming to light that has implications for wine marketing and wine making. How shall I put this? Let’s try this:...
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Will the Natural Wine Movement Listen to an Authentic Authority?
If anyone within the wine writing establishment has concentrated more on the issue of authenticity in wine, the virtues of terroir, and the benefits of naturalness in wine than the Wine Spectator’s...
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The Wine Materialist Lays a Natural Turd
I chuckle every time I hear the phrase uttered or written: “As Nature Intended”. On its face, the phrase implies that nature or the natural world displays intent, which further implies that a rock, an...
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Parker: ‘Natural’ wine will be exposed as ‘fraud’
US wine critic Robert Parker has released his predictions for 2014 including natural wines being exposed “as a fraud” and growing love for US wines. Parker tweeted his 15 predictions in early January...
View ArticleWine Australia cracks down on ‘orange’ wine
Wine Australia has threatened producers outside the region of Orange in New South Wales who name their wines as “orange” risk “serious consequences”. Source: The Drinks Business View Original article...
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The Rise of “Natural” in Wine Marketing
Back in 2008, a study by Minitel found that “All Natural” was the second most frequently used claim on new American food products. A more recent study found that the term “100 Percent Natural” was...
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