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In the wine world there are two drinkers: those that believe natural wine is the way wine was intended to be, and those that believe natural wine is abysmal. It's easily the most polarizing part of the wine world that's emerged in the last decade or so, though there are subtleties and nuances that make a straightforward like vs. dislike opinion complicated.
For instance, there is plenty of wine that meets the definition of natural wine (wine made with nothing added, ie no commercial yeasts, sugar, sulphur, enzymes etc), but doesn't market itself as such. And there is now an entire genre that positions itself as 'low intervention' wine mainly to avoid the polarizing debates of natural wine, which is probably a smart move: they're getting old.
Regardless of your opinion, the best way to get to understand natural wine better is to taste it. Which you can do better than anywhere else at any of the Raw Wine Fairs held each year in London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Montréal, Toronto, Paris, Copenhagen and Tokyo. These events are an unpretentious, fresh take on the boring old wine tasting, with lively personalities and cool venues - and in our opinion, well worth a trip on their own. Combined with some serious eating, of course.
