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Summary
Is natural wine dead?
Or is it thriving?
What even IS natural wine these days?!
Most importantly, what’s next for this multi-faceted yet much misunderstood category?
Helping us answer these searching questions are writer and winemaker Rachel Signer, journalist Simon Woolf and wine producer Ben Walgate.
We also indulge in a bit of impassioned debate between the two of us – this being a particularly provocative topic.
(It’s not every episode that moves Peter to use the phrase, ‘complete bollocks’, and Susie to say, ‘cheeky middle finger’, but here we are.)
For example, did you know that the very term ‘natural wine’ itself is an unfortunate mis-translation?
Are you familiar with, ‘organic-PLUS’ viticulture?
Why hybrids may be the next big thing for natural producers?
That natural wine is a philosophy, not a style?
How the natural scene has influenced conventional wine?
And the fact there’s a new category of ‘natural-adjacent’ wines emerging..?
Starring
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Links & Notes
- In this episode, we reference a fair few back episodes of Wine Blast, so here are the links for easy access:
- On Natural Wine
- Orange Wine: The Resurrection
- Adelaide Hills – Lofty Ambitions
- The Vines of the Future – Are Here!
- Tainted Love – Your Ultimate Guide to Wine Faults
- We also quote Daniel Ham, so here’s a link to Offbeat Wines
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