The New York City Raw Wine Fair was held on November 6-7. It was a two-day, huge tasting and celebration of low-intervention, organic, biodynamic and natural wines showcasing the growers whose farming and cellar philosophes concur with the raw wine charter of quality. Raw Wine “celebrates wines with emotion, wines that have a humanlike, or living presence. They are also wines that are an authentic expression of a place.”
The event was held at a warehouse at 99 Scott Avenue in the up and coming, graffiti filled, industrial prairie of Bushwick in Brooklyn. I attended the Sunday afternoon session which was open to both trade and consumers, it was packed with people having a good time.
I particular enjoyed wines from these producers:
Dirty & Rowdy Winery
Donkey & Goat Winery
Les Clos de Caveau
Chateau le Puy
Fattoria di Caspri
Other producers I sampled:
The Hobo Wine Co.
Hardesty Cellars
Coturri Winery
Swick Wines
Montebruno
Bloomer Creek Vineyard
Podere Casaccia-Sine Felle
Costa Graia
Andrea Scovero
Santa 10
Chateau Mirebeau
Clos Lentiscus
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