Designation (also naked wine, vin nature, in Italy often vino naturale or more rarely vino artigianale, as well as colloquially, but not permitted under wine law, "natural wine") for wines produced in a traditional, mostly minimalist manner, which belong to the large group of so-called alternative wines. This also includes the styles Artisan Wine, Raw Wine and Pétillant Naturel as well as Orange Wine in terms of typicity.

The roots of the natural wine movement lie in France in the 1980s. The private scholar Jules Chauvet (1907-1989) and the oenologist Jacques Néauport are regarded as pioneers, who were the first to systematically investigate how wine could be produced without the use of antioxidants, sulphur or technological intervention. Their experiments laid the foundations for the subsequent international spread of the term "natural wine".
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Restaurantleiter, Sommelier, Weindozent und Autor; Dresden