SERIOUS DINNER COMPANIONS
SERIOUS DINNER COMPANIONS
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Let us deal with your wine situation for your next diner! This selection goes great with holiday foods, but are just as enjoyable by themselves. There’s a winner for everyone in this pack, from light whites to deep reds.
Ruppert-Leroy Fosse Grely 2022
Brut nature, zero dosage. Notes of ripe apples, toast and yeast with a powerful minerality. Robust and beautiful.
Ganevat Négoce Le Courage 2021
Quite a dense and fruit-forward expression of Riesling. The acidity is cutting but not sharp, which helps balance the slight heft in the body. Notes of ripe red apple, quince and lemon curd.
Tom Shobbrook Chardonnay 2022
Refreshing and zippy Chardonnay, with high acidity and creamy finish.
Sato Pinot Gris L'Atypique 2023
The nose offers a bouquet of deep citrus fruits like pink grapefruit, blood orange and marmalade. The palate has a savoury touch, but retains freshness in the fruit. There is a good, grippy texture to the tannin and a vivid acidity.
Gut Oggau Josephine 2023
Mature Blaufrankisch and 30+ year-old rare Rösler plots on a limestone soil. Vibrant and fresh, with ripe red fruits and spices.
La Petite Empreinte - Mas a Tierra 202
Low-intervention Pinot Noir sourced near Chablis with. A light, smooth red with crunchy tannins, chalky minerality and notes of fresh red berries.
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Organic, Biodynamic and Natural wine. What’s the difference?
To understand this concept and its various ramifications, it is necessary to keep something clear in mind: before the 20th century and the spreading of affordable synthetic fertilisers, all farming was organic. When the shift to the use of synthetics and pesticides happened, it became necessary to diversify traditional organic farming from the new modern farming.
ORGANIC WINE
Simply put, organic farming forbids the use of synthetic fertilisers, synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified organisms. The basic requirements are generally specific and engage the farmers not to use any chemical fertilisers and other synthetic products in the vineyard. It does not prevent the vintner from using the conventional winemaking process after harvesting.
BIODYNAMIC WINE
Let’s take organic farming one step further: Biodynamic. The creator of this agricultural system is the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, who developed the principles of biodynamics in a series of lectures given in 1924 in Germany. Here lies the foundation of true organic wines, with a strict limit in the use of additives, stringent requirements and at the end obtaining a biodynamic certification.
NATURAL WINE
The previous definitions are usually, and rightfully, associated with it, because most natural wine is also organic and/or biodynamic. But not vice versa!
Natural wine is wine in its purest form, simply described as nothing added, nothing taken away, just grapes fermented. No manipulation whatsoever, minimal intervention both in the vineyards and in the winery. Healthy grapes, natural yeast and natural fermentation, with no filtration nor fining. Sounds easy, right? However, making natural wine is unforgiving and it requires a bigger amount of work than conventional wine. To this day, natural wine has no certification yet.