France: Chapoutier pours scorn on natural winemakers
France: Chapoutier pours scorn on natural winemakers
Jan 31, 2012
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(Decanter) - Renowned Rhone producer Michel Chapoutier has added to the natural wine debate by denouncing natural winemakers as out-of-touch hippies making defective wines.Interviewed in the current issue of Decanter, Chapoutier tells John Livingstone-Learmonth the practice of natural winemaking – that is, using no sulphur dioxide to stabilise the wines – is a con.
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