‘Natural’ Wine Is a Niche You Need to Know About
Four experts weigh in on wine’s buzziest category.
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Organic wines are made from grapes grown without herbicides and pesticides. Once harvested, though, chemicals and enzymes can be used in the winemaking process.
People who make biodynamic wines are a little … intense. They treat the vineyard as a living system and say all forms of life—animals, soil microbes, vines, other plants—exist in balance with each other and that a healthy harvest is the result of no imbalances (or herbicides and pesticides). Still, once these grapes are picked, the winemakers can employ chemicals.