Do you know what’s in your wine?
Wine-making has become ever-more unnatural, from the use of blanket crop-spraying in vineyards to the over-use of sulphites, but finally, someone is doing something about it. Isabelle Legeron MW is leading the campaign for natural wine – wine made as nature intended. There is no official description of natural wine, but a rough definition is that it is made from grapes that are farmed organically or biodynamically and harvested manually and that the wine should ideally be made without adding or removing anything during the vinification process. It is basically good old-fashioned grape juice fermented into wine, just as nature intended. Isabelle is a crusader for the natural wine movement: she has her own show on the Travel Channel, organizes a hugely successful annual natural wine festival (RAW), and acts as an adviser to several leading restaurants. Just as the craft beer movement has taken off across the globe, the demand for natural wine is growing and will continue to do so.
Isabelle Legeron MW is a crusader for the natural wine movement. She created the hugely successful RAW WINE festival for natural and low-intervention organic and biodynamic wines, which today hosts annual events in London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles. She advises several leading restaurants on their wine lists and has hosted her own TV show on the Travel Channel. She was the first French woman to become a Master of Wine. She lives in east London, UK.
ISBN: 978-1782491002