Living Wine: New Documentary Follows Four Innovators in the Natural Wine Movement in California

This film chronicles the highs and lows of four natural winemakers/farmers in Northern California, while also discussing the philosophy and culture surrounding the natural wine movement....

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Wine’s Naturalistic Fallacy: Thoughts on Style and Site Expression

The aspiration to “add nothing and take nothing away,” is far from new. But does the pursuit of purity and “transparency” end in authenticity or merely in homogeneous neutrality?...

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Flying the Friendly Skies

Here’s what I’ve been feeling the past few weeks. We were on this large jet flying to somewhere beautiful, some sort of Paradise, we thought, when it was hijacked and...

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Amplify the Autumn

Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed a fondness for natural wines. And by natural wines, I don’t mean foul-tasting, positively odd, aquarium-water-like wines, which is what I thought...

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Taken with a Pinch of Wine Faults

It’s tempting for us wine experts to want to get on our high horses about wine faults. The (r)evolution of winemaking in the last twenty or so years means that...

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Alice’s Adventures in Naturaland, or Through the Isinglass

Ron Washam, A.K.A. The HoseMaster of Wine™, ventures beyond his infamous blog, penning his first original, wickedly satirical piece for Wine Journal. Welcome HoseMaster!...

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