VinNatur is an Italian organization for natural wine producers founded and run by Angiolino Maule, a wine producer in Gambellara in Veneto. With over 200 members, it is also the most significant in the world for this type of wine. VinNatur aim is to make natural wines without defects, which is not always easy. But for VinNatur, it is essential to enlist the help of scientific expertise, both for the work in the vineyard and the cellar.
In the vineyard, of course, the members work without synthetic products but strive to also manage with minimal (or even no) copper. In the cellar, a small addition of sulphur dioxide is allowed (but many of the members work entirely without sulphur) and a rough filtration.
VinNatur’s wine fair in Venice on 13–14 November attracted a large crowd of natural wine enthusiasts. 60 VinNatur members presented their wines. We discovered several favourites (more on this in future articles), not least Angiolino Maule’s own wines from the garganega grape he makes with his son Alessandro.
Read: more on organic and natural wine in BKWine’s book Organic, Biodynamic and Natural winemaking.
