Winemaker’s

Ethics and fundamentals Winegrowers who are unwilling or unable to make this commitment are not required to become members of the AVN. The goal of AVN is to arrive at an ideal: to develop natural wines, that is to say without any additive (input) added. The winegrowers who adhere to the AVN undertake to apply this will. AVN member winemakers say what they do and do what they say about the entire wine making process, from growing to bottling to winemaking. Applications The cultivation practice necessarily respects the approach of the organic or biodynamic farmer. The harvest is manual. Only indigenous yeasts direct the vinification. There is no voluntary modification of the original constitution of the grape and therefore no recourse to brutal and traumatic physical tec...