In recent years it’s gained momentum in Aotearoa, starting with imported examples and the trailblazing Pyramid Valley wines of the late Mike Weersing and now embraced by both new-generation and established local winemakers. Since its birth in Europe, it’s become an informal movement that’s quickened across the world. Drawn to their vibrancy and energy and now with her own Amoise label in Hawke’s Bay, she “can’t imagine making wine any other way”.įor Farnsworth, like a growing number of winemakers in Aotearoa, it’s become her ethos, allowing her to both respect nature and make wines in which the vineyard and vintage can be genuinely tasted.Īt its living, beating, often passionate heart, natural wine is a philosophy, not a style.
“I’d never tried wines like this before, or had such a strong emotional response to wine,” recalls winemaker Amy Farnsworth of her first encounters with natural wines while in Europe.
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