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More Natural Wines   Chris Deegan •  Aug 26, 2009 •  1 Comment »

Movia is Ales Kristancic.  He is a dynamic figure well known by much of the wine world, especially here in San Francisco where he is a regular visitor.  He is a Tazmanian Devil of a spokesperson for biodynamics and natural winemaking.  His energy is contagious and his positivism incredible.  I have personally seen him achieve the near impossible through sheer positive will.  We will be pouring the Lunar by the glass during Natural Wine Week.  This is a wine that started as an experiment to see just how naturally wine can be made.  Naturally as in let nature make it.  He touches the grapes only twice, once to cut them from the vine and then later to bottle the wine.  The grapes are put into special barrels with openings that mimic the ratio of the opening of a grape to its interior space.  They are left to ferment on the skins until the wine is complete.  It is then drawn off and put into bottle.  It doesn’t get more natural than that.  Like the Chardonnay from NPA, the skin contact protects the wine and alleviates the need for sulfur or other treatments.  The grape here, Ribolla Gialla, is actually a rather tannic grape, so this ‘white’ wine has a decent amount of tannin.  It is a very cool wine and a rare opportunity to be able to pour it by the glass.

Chris Deegan is Wine Director at nopa
Posted August 26, 2009 • Filed under Wine • Share: del.icio.us / StumbleUpon / Digg

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