Wine 101: Wine, Explained Well

Clear, jargon-free guides to natural wine, winemaking techniques, organic and biodynamic farming, and the science behind every bottle.

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Best Pét-Nats to Try (2026)
The best pét-nats to try now: lively, low-intervention ancestral-method bubbles in every color, from house bestsellers to seek-out bottles.
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Best Chillable Reds to Try (2026)
The best chillable reds to try now: light, low-tannin natural reds built to serve cold. Lambrusco, Gamay, and carbonic-style bottles for easy drinking.
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Best Orange Wines to Try (2026)
Orange wine is white wine made the way red wine is made. The juice ferments together with the grape skins for days, weeks or months, and the skins give it an amber color, tannin and more texture than a white wine has. Good first bottles are Gulp Hablo Orange and Field Recordings Skins; for more structure, Radikon and Denavolo; for the oldest version of the style, a qvevri amber wine from Georgia.
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Best Natural Wines to Try (2026)
The best natural wines to try now, from crowd-pleasers like Gulp Hablo and Folicello Lambrusco to cellar bottles from Radikon and Frank Cornelissen. Customer favorites and staff picks across red, white, orange, rosé, and pét-nat.