Much ink has been spilled in order to try and define what ‘natural wine’ is, and this essay will not tread that same worn path. Instead, it will recognize and appreciate the good and the aim of it, and prune the parts which have grown too shady. The Post-Natural (which is a term this author has now used for some time, but one cannot use an unidentified term in one’s Instagram bio and expect that to serve as a full thesis) acts as a philosophy and an ethical guiding principle without the prescriptive rules or definitions offered by some more militant factions of the industry…

We are living in a moment in history which seems particularly poised for taking stock of our industry and our practice of teaching. Fires burn wide swaths of forest each summer, the ice caps are melting, and with them, global diplomacy. It sometimes feels hard to tell if wine really matters in the grand scheme of it all. How we attempt to deal with our place in the world and our sense of mortality, however small, is through teaching and communicating, through making sure we can share with you the things worth saving and teach you how to weed out the things better left behind. As educators and wine professionals, we have all spent more than a third of our adult lives learning…