Reprinted with permission from the California Farm Bureau Federation
Sometimes you need to go backward to move forward. The natural wine movement is a prime example of this philosophy.
A cadre of grape growers and winemakers—including Darek Trowbridge of Old World Winery in Sonoma County’s Russian River Valley—crafts wine as it was made hundreds if not thousands of years ago. No filtering, no fining, no additives. Just grapes, wild yeast, a barrel and time…