Buon Vino
At The Courtyard Dairy, Crow's Nest Lane, Austwick , Yorkshire, LA2 8AS
Natural Wines, Organic Wines, Biodynamic Wines, Hand Harvested Wines, Unfined Wines, Unfiltered Wines, Low Sulphur Wines, No Added Sulphur Wines
Wine that is good for the earth and seriously good to drink. Decanter Specialist Wine Retailer of the Year four years running, Buon Vino is the original pioneer of Natural wines.
Since Rob Bagot was bewitched by Natural Wine over a decade ago, he's done a lot of learning, enjoying every minute and savoured every drop.
What is Natural Wine?
The term encompasses many different production methods:
Organic
Organic viticulture avoids toxic chemicals, especially in the growing process. It is the starting point for making good-quality, healthy wines, and it should be the standard, not the exception. When classifying a natural wine, this is a big one.
Biodynamic
Biodynamic wines are made entirely in tune with nature, both in the vineyard and the cellar. This is the zenith of natural wine criteria. If you want sustainably and ethically produced wine, biodynamic is your watchword.
Hand Harvested
Picking the grapes by hand rather than opting for machine harvesting is an essential part of the natural wine making philosophy. If your grapes were picked this way, it’s a good sign that your wine is made by someone who cares deeply about their product.
Natural Yeast Fermentation
Allowing a wine to ferment naturally ensures its flavour is authentic to the area. It’s one benchmark we always look for. No natural fermentation equals no natural wine. It’s as simple as that.
Nothing Removed, Nothing Added
Using additives and removing things from wine are processes that help standardise flavour and style in conventional production. Natural wine shuns such manipulations to allow nature, in all its glory, to be fully expressed in the wine.
Unfined
Fining is the winemaking term for one of the clarification processes used in conventional winemaking. The problem for some wine lovers is that it traditionally involves animal-derived substances. Unfined wines, while they can sometimes appear cloudy, are vegan-friendly and favoured by most natural producers.
Unfiltered
This term is used for wines that aren’t subjected to the questionable practice of filtering wine at a micro-level. Ironically, the whole point of the process is to clarify the wine, but it leaves you with a product that is less naturally pure.
Low Sulphur
Sulphites help stabilise and preserve wine. The problem is that conventional wine producers tend to overdo it by adding excessive quantities. In some people, this can contribute to hangovers or cause reactions. Thankfully, natural wine producers prefer low sulphur additions.
No Added Sulphur
Sulphur is an almost essential wine additive that stabilises and preserves wine. It can, however, impair the very qualities natural winemakers aspire to uphold. That’s why some brave and highly skilled producers avoid it altogether. The results can be spectacular.
Celebrating 4 years in a row - Decanter Specialist Wine Retailer of the Year
