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Default 'Natural wine' ?

On May 8, 1:45 pm, wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed this term steadily gaining currency over the
> last twelve months ?
>
> It used to be something you weren't allowed to say.
>
> Jamie Goode (not exactly a wine hippy) now regularly uses it on his
> blog (see here :http://www.wineanorak.com/blog/label...al%20wine.html)
> and both he and Alice Feiring are apparently writing books on the
> subject.
>
> http://www.morethanorganic.computs quite a good case for the
> difference between 'natural' and 'organic' wines, but I can't help
> feeling it's just smart way of selling their product.
>
> Even Hugh Johnson seems to have retracted an article in which he
> called the idea of natural wine 'bogus' (see, or rather don't see,
> here :http://www.vinography.com/archives/2...ntic_wine....).
>
> It now seems to be current as a way of describing certain fairly
> extreme organic wines. These may well need a term distinct from
> 'organic', but surely there has to be a better alternative ?
>
> Any suggestions ?



"Montresor manages its vineyards only by natural means without the
use of chemical pesticides or herbicides."
Dee