Craig Hawkins - South Africa's Skin Contact Pioneer
Craig and Carla Hawkins run Testalonga, a winery in the Swartland region of South Africa. Craig is widely regarded as a pioneer of orange wines in his home country, typically made with the Chenin Blanc grape. Here is Craig, in his own words. "We are in the Swartland region
The Complexities of Producing Orange Wines
This article explores the history of orange wines and how they are made today, including interviews with leading winemakers.
RAW WINE TALKS... Chile
Brought to you with the kind support of ProChile. Join us for a whistle-stop tour of one of the world’s most exciting ‘new’ natural wine producing countries. Although viticulture has existed in Chile ever since the conquistadors arrived in the 16th century bringing with them their comforts of home,
Speakers' Corner NYC 2016 - Videos
As part of the New York 2016 edition of the fair, we hosted a RAW WINE Speakers’ Corner which saw all sorts of natural wine heroes give talks, tastings and do book signings – sharing their experiences and knowledge to help visitors get to grips with this extraordinary world. As promised,
Exploring Some of France’s Most Famous Appellations
Less well-known wine regions around the world have long been hotbeds for natural wine creation, as cheaper vineyard prices have meant that growers could set-up shop relatively easily and experiment without too much risk. But what people often forget is that great low-intervention wine also exists in some of the
An Interview with Viniculture's Holger Schwarz
Based in Berlin, Viniculture is a wine importer, wine shop and one of our RAW WINE Berlin partners. They list quite a few natural and low-intervention organic and biodynamic wines on their books so we put a few questions to its MD, Holger Schwarz, to learn a bit more about
RAW WINE Crackerjack: Tony Coturri
We are delighted to announce that Californian, natural-wine-growing wonder Tony Coturri is joining us as our ‘Virtual Expert’. Outspoken and opionated, he is the Marmite of wine – in his words ‘you either love me or you hate me’. Well, here at RAW WINE we certainly fall into the former camp
Our Virtual Expert
RAW WINE is delighted to announce that Mark Garrett – the permaculturist extraordinaire that joined us for RAW WINE 2012 to talk about Growing Plants (and who also happens to have been Richard Branson’s permaculture consultant on Necker Island) – is joining RAW WINE 2013 as a ‘Virtual Expert’. Unfortunately he
