Alice Feiring
Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basicsâ€”wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them â€œoverripe, over-manipulated, and overblownâ€ and makes her case that good (and possibly great) wine can still be made, if only winemakers would listen more to nature and less to marketers, and stop using additives and chemicals. But letting wine make itself is harder than it seems.Three years ago, Feiring answered a dare to try her hand at natural winemaking. In ,
  ,Naked Wine,
,,she details her adventureâ€”sometimes calm, sometimes wild, always revealingâ€”and peers into the nooks and crannies of todayâ€™s exciting, new (but centuries-old) world of natural wine.
Alcohol,Wine,Nonfiction,Alcohol,Booze
Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally