Cleopatra – the last pharaoh and one of the most powerful rulers of Egypt, a debauched temptress and a woman of superior intellect. It turned out that she was also a huge wine lover along with Marc Antony, a Roman general and her lover, who by the way, was declared the New Dionysus, a god of wine, happiness, and immortality.
Raw Wine Fair is the first natural wine fair organized by Isabelle Legeron in New York City. “It celebrates wines with emotion. Wines that have a humanlike, or living, presence.” It features an array of over a hundred natural winemakers coming from across the globe to showcase the result of their hard work.
There are people like us, typically smaller vineyards, who are willing to go the extra mile to farm in a more intimate way with the soil, in a way that is not always the most efficient. Yet a lot of vineyards are run by professional managers looking for the greatest efficiency, which often goes hand-in-hand with the use of herbicides and pesticides.
Organic, biodynamic, natural, green, eco-friendly, naked, sustainably-farmed… What’s the difference between all these terms and how does one understand what wine is good?
Wine is an agricultural product, and has an impact on the lives of people who produce and consume it, and on the environment – through pesticides, herbicides, excessive water and energy consumption which are all commonplace in conventional wine production.
