This is probably the wine more similar to what our ancestors consumed, but it cannot be said that a natural wine is a wine ecological.
In the European case, it follows rules established and regulated by the European Union. It establishes the products and dose. In addition to your periods, which can be used both in the vineyard as in the wine cellar in wine production. Nor can it be considered that the so-called natural wines follow international standards that regulate biodynamic agriculture.
Natural wine, wine with common sense
The natural wines they try to give prominence to the common sense of the producers. Those who use practices of the ecological agriculture and biodynamic processes. Although they are not forced to follow its rules.
El natural wine follow the french practices Jules chauvet that seeks the purity of wine. "I do not use any chemical product, I use compost. I try to follow the lunar calendars and I try to use infusions, silica and flower of sulfur in the vineyard in very low doses if necessary. Always being very respectful with the whole environment ”.
That tells us Joan Escoda, owner and winemaker of the Escoda-Sanahuja winery, Great Products.
"I do not seek to use other products that replace those prohibited as they do organic agriculture and oenology. I just don't use any products. I do not use industrial yeasts, nor do I filter the wine, nor do I correct its acidity, nor do I use any sulfite or any product that can substitute it ”.
escoda recognizes that it is very difficult to guarantee good practices in the so-called natural wines. Appeal to people to know the producers, the land and the wineries. Also to trust, since there are no regulations for the production of natural wine.
Many of these producers minimize the performance in the vineyard. In the winery they seek purity, which translates into a different wine with its own personality in each area, in each vintage. Are some special wines that cannot be replicated, that they may or may not like but that do not leave anyone indifferent.
