Who Started the Natty Wine Thing Anyway

This is not a talk about a trend. Everyone has an opinion about natural wine. Almost no one knows where it actually came from. The short answer most people give is France. The 1970s. A group of winemakers in Beaujolais who decided the industry had lost the plot and started stripping everything back. That story is real, but it’s not the origin. Not even close. The real answer is Georgia. 8,000 years ago. Before barrels, before bottles, before France was making wine at all, Georgian farmers were fermenting grapes in clay vessels buried underground, and the results were, by every modern… Hosted by Lecture Lounge