natural wine

  1. Simon Woolf

    Aldi's £5.99 orange wine

    So Aldi seems to have caused a bit of a stir with their newly released "orange natural wine"... I was curious about who was making it, and how on earth they can do it for such a low price. It turns out it's made by Cramele Recas, one of Romania's largest wineries, and owned by a Brit to boot...
  2. Simon Woolf

    Amber Revolution - the world's first book to tell the full, forgotten story of orange wine - pre-ord

    Anyone interested in the extraordinary history behind orange wine (white wine made with long skin maceration) - perhaps the world's oldest wine style - should check out my forthcoming book Amber Revolution. The story takes in Friuli, Slovenia and Georgia, also profiling around 180 producers...
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  3. Simon Woolf

    The madness of Italian wine bureaucracy, part 993

    I thought people may be grimly fascinated by the latest example of Italian wine law idiocy. I was visiting Sasa Radikon in Oslavia yesterday. Fans of Radikon's wines will know that one of their "entry level" bottlings is a Pinot Grigio with 30 days of skin maceration. They've been making and...
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