Natural wine culture, by Aaron Ayscough. Reporting from Paris since 2010.
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Fall 2026 Natural Wine Salons
A view from the beer station at Salon Grrrabuge, Brussels, November 2024.
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Casa Cubo by Delinquent Vino
In 2025, my Monferrato winegrower friends Amanda Courtney and Gianni Albesano offered to let me vinify a barrel of nebbiolo. How could I resist?
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ANOTHER WINE, by Valentin Morel
Jura vigneron Valentin Morel surprised quite a few wine lovers in 2023 when he released a memoir, entitled Un Autre Vin (Flammarion, 2023), detailing the climatic challenges of his profession and how they led him to take an interest in hybr...
Valentin Morel: The Truth About Treatments
A chat with the Jura vigneron and author of ANOTHER WINE about his experiments with hybrid grape varieties.
Poligny vigneron Valentin Morel has emerged in recent years as one of French natural wine’s foremost proponents of the adoption of...
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Pronounced, "A scoff." American wine writer, based in Paris. Author of NOT DRINKING POISON, a newsletter about natural wine, and THE WORLD OF NATURAL WINE (Artisan Books, 2022).
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