See also part 1 for an introduction, part 2 for  the discussion of living soils and  part 3 for yeast as part of terroir. Walter's notes on wines tasted at the conference...

In the super-sensual world of wine, scientists tend to lurk in back rooms - in the often malodorous small labs attached to bigger wineries where they analyse what is produced and save it from...

Wine writer Alice Feiring was invited over from New York to London to speak at the first UK Natural Wine Fair. I caught up with her at Wine Wharf wine bar at the end of the second of the three...

Update 20 and 23 May: more snippets on the Natural Wine Fair from Alice Feiring and Ron Laughton . I popped in to the UK's first Natural Wine Fair late yesterday afternoon to see a...

Britain's first Natural Wine Fair is currently taking place at Borough Market, London SE1. Those in London for the event include Alice Feiring of the US, Nicolas Joly of the Loire, Ron...

Later - Apparently Nicolas Joly, Monty Waldin and Alice Feiring are all lined up as speakers at the forthcoming Natural Wine Fair in London . But surely Monsieur Wregg would have even more...

Are you curious about this new breed of wines called 'natural wines', the sort of wine that I, for example, discussed in Naked as nature intended ? Londoners have a chance to taste a wide range...

[Also see David Schildknecht's notes for a winewriter's perspective from across the pond.] Biodynamics is so 2009. The very latest way to raise hackles is the phrase ‘natural wine’,...

An update on my previous recommendations . Adnams of Southwold Like many other fine wine merchants, seem to have quite a few 1998 red burgundies on their hands, notably Vincent...

Things happen slowly in Germany. My piece on Germany's dry dictators , critical of the proposal by the VDP, the top producers' association, for a new naming system that ignored wines between...

Why on earth are there two fairs promoting natural wine taking place at the same time in London this May? As always when wine and people mix, opinions diverge, sometimes creatively, sometimes...

Perhaps the best thing to happen in the wine world in 2011 was the increasing realisation that 2010 was such a good vintage in so many wine regions. After the exceptional ripeness of 2009, the...

Part 3 of my coverage of the NEW11 on yeast as part of terroir provoked such a long thread in the Members' forum that I felt it my duty to go to see Federico Giotto and ask him to respond...

These tasting notes form the last episode of Walter's five-part report on NEW11, the Natural European Wine 2011 conference.  See also  part 1  for an introduction,  part 2...

See also the introductory part 1 , part 2 on soils, part 4 on the consumer, and finally the tasting notes . For a spirited debate on the article, including insider input from winemakers,...