Frequently Asked Questions
Wait! What’s natural wine or real wine anyway?
There are 200 approved additives allowed in winemaking and a lot of industrial processes allowed as well. Think real orange juice instead of from concentrate. Which one do you want?
The wines I seek out come from responsibly farmed vineyards. The people making them start from the philosophy of nothing added or taken away. In other words: no yeasts, enzymes, tannins, bacteria, defoaming agents, oak chips, acids, reverse osmosis, excessive sulfur…etc. You get the idea.
But, how can I tell which wines are natural?
It’s difficult.
How do I find these wines?
I’m not sayin it’s going to be easy. These wines can be more difficult to score than DRC. But here’s what you do:
- Use WineSearcher.com to find someone in the states who carries them. Then see if they can ship to you.
- Bug a local wine store to help you out.
- Contact the importer and ask them how you can get hold of the wines.
- Ask me for help.
- Join The Feiring Line Wine Society and have the wines delivered to your door.
I get your blog for free. What do I get here for $68?
The blog will continue, but the focus will be on the personal, my public place for insights, musings, rantings and timely opinions but will not include wine recommendations.
The newsletter’s motivation is journalistic; to give the reader the best information I can about wine, winemakers and issues in the natural wine world. 20-25 recommendations a month. Articles. It is a mini-magazine.
Each issue is to deliver 20-25 wine recommendations, lively wines with purity of expression at all pricepoints.
I have a soft spot for the bargain, but I’ll cover aspirational wines as we
Who signs up?
The Feiring Line is for real wine drinkers, importers, trend watchers and retailers. This is a newsletter about real wines for real and thirsty drinkers.
What am I aiming for?
If you doubt the right wine can change a life, ask me about it sometime.