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Dry red wine no additives8/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Wine must be made with indigenous yeast and inputs and physical techniques including reverse osmosis, filtration and flash pasteurization are not allowed. Vineyards must be certified organic and harvested manually. Natural wine is essentially organic wine with no additives in the winemaking, natural yeast (also required for biodynamic certification) and very low or no sulphites.Ī new natural wine charter was recently created in France under the name ‘vin méthode nature’. Most natural wine grower associations allow up to 30mg of sulfites per litre for red and up to 40mg of sulfites per litre for white and rosé. Natural wine rules are stricter than organic and biodynamic but there is no certification, it’s not controlled by EU law and what we understand as natural wine is based on rules set by natural winegrower associations. It doesn’t matter how much food and water you have if you don’t have air you are dead. A harvest machine, given its own weight and the weight of the harvest it has collected, plus the humidity of the soil that time of year, creates immense soil compaction.There is a sense of community, of working together and of excitement. We feel a totally different ambience when we are hand-picking, even on long days. When we take such care through our growing season then we start the grapes journey to wine with violent thrashing by a 3-ton machine it doesn’t add up. It’s also about the positive energy, the community and the care of hand-picking.Sounds like a witch’s brew not a recipe for good wine. A ton of grapes, half a snake, one lizard, 2 mice, three quarters of a frog. For red you only find out what was in there when you take the skins out at the end of the winemaking. Machine harvested grapes include many small animals: mice, lizards, snakes, sometimes even small rabbits. Feely wines are organic and vegan: no animal products are used in the wine making. ![]() In addition, we can pick areas of a vineyard earlier or later depending on their ripeness. We do a stringent selection of every bunch that goes into our baskets. Better quality grapes and more precision about when to pick.Hand-picking is more expensive so why do it? For us there are four reasons. Since 2014 all Feely grapes are hand harvested. With conventional winemaking any approved wine additives can be used (the EU is stricter than the new world in terms of additives and techniques, but the list is still very large).With organic winemaking the grapes used must be certified organic and the winemaking process can use some additives, but they must be from a list of approved products (eg certified organic yeast) and stricter sulphite maximums than conventional. ![]()
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