Glouglou c’est Nous, Vins Naturels en Hautes-Corbieres, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th December, 2pm-7pm, Domaine Grand Guilhem, 11360 Cascastel-des-Corbieres.

 

5 euro entry free for under 18s, free glass of wine offered and 12 local artisanal wine makers with 40 different wines and grape juices to taste and buy.

I am looking forward to tasting our friend Dominique Terrier’s vins naturels, it is his first real year this year as he took over his 10 hectres of organic grapes late last year. Olivier Fouquet and Aline Costella from the Domaine des Pierre Bleues are our locals that have reopened the cave in Villerouge Termenes, their wines really have the caught the character of the Hautes Corbieres  beautiful, if a little wild at times. Manuel Ramon’s wine from the Domaine de la Rune outside of Talairan are always worth a taste. The other nine winemakers I know less well but am looking forward to discovering.

Natural wine is slowly beginning to make a name for itself in certain organic circles despite theer being no real definition of what it actually is,The Wikipedia entry for natural wines  lists a number of different definitions, but the most useful I find is the Decanter definition of the minimal standards for natural wine. In a couple of week and an enjoyable wine tasting a week on Sunday and I hope to know more,