Natural wine shouldn’t be a style
Natural wine was supposed to be about ideals, but did it just became a style equated with cloudy, funky wines?
Originally published in Noble Rot issue 32.
Roll out the barrel – getting beyond oak in wine
Simon asks why winemakers are still obsessed with putting wine in oak. Or are they?
Originally published in Noble Rot issue 30.
I Come from Nowhere (Wine Classification is an Ass)
Wine classifications guarantee provenance, but why have many of their controlling institutions become de facto style police?
Originally published as “System of a Dão” in Noble Rot issue 28.
Auf Wiedersehen Pét
Simon gets ranty about pét nat, natural wine’s ubiquitous fizz. This article was originally published in Noble Rot Magazine, issue 27.