Wine Liberated: The Ecological Revolution and the Vintners Inspiring Change

What can wine become when we free ourselves from the belief that our current idea of wine-dominated by a monoculture and the product of colonial capitalism-is the highest and best version that it can be?Over the last eighty years, wine has developed into a global monoculture, with just a few varieties of a single species of grape dominating a majority of the market.Millions of acres of Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and a few others grow across every continent and many countries.While this trend is seen in other crops, wine has a unique history of legal enforcement and propaganda that created and propagated this dominance.When you think of wine, what you probably think of is actually a product of colonial capitalism founded on prejudice and sustained by pesticides.Yet few who fall in love with “wine” are aware of this.The dominant concept of wine has been so successful that other ideas have mostly been marginalized into invisibility… until recently.Since 2019, winemaker an