Does a producer have any rights to their wines, once they have sold them?
I recently wrote a piece for Little Wine about the grey market for wine, and how this has started to
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Natural wine
Johan Meyer and his new home in the Swartland – some of South Africa’s top natural wines
Johan Meyer, known affectionately by everyone as Stompie, is one of the leading natural winegrowers in South Africa. He’s been
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Highlights: Anne et Jean-François Ganevat Kopin 2018 France
Ganevat is one of my favourite producers, and this is one of their negociant wines – an interesting blend combining
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Highlights: Heinrich Weisze Freyheit 2017 Österreich
Heinrich are one of the top producers in Austria’s Burgenland wine region. They farm in the Leithaberg region, biodynamically. This
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Can big companies make natural wines? Cramele Recas and their orange and glou glou wines
Can a big company make natural wine? Cramele Recas is a forward-thinking winery in Romania that makes 25 million bottles.
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Highlights: a duo from star Jura producer Domaine Labet
The Labet family of Rotalier in the area south of Lons-le-Saunier, known as the Sud Revermont, have been making thoughtful
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Vigneti Tardis, natural wines from Campania, Italy
This is a collaborative winery. One of the partners is Jack Lewens of Shoreditch Michelin-starred restaurant Leroy, and the other
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Highlight: Domaine Hase Pino Fin Blanc 2018, Nagano, Japan
This comes from a small winery high up (800 m) in Nagano that I visited last year. I tasted this
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Highlights from Millésime Bio & around Montpellier
As Goode tidily wrote up, 2020 saw the 27th edition of Millésime Bio, the world’s largest organic wine fair. We crossed
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Simplesmente Vinho 2020
In this short interview, organizer João Roseira talks about Simplesmente Vinho 2020, the wine festival for ‘wines without make-up’, held
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