THE WINEPODDER

Meet Zach and Cliff, owners of the Cava Wine Bar in Capitola, Calif., and our newest WinePodders. These two are wine enthusiasts of the kind we like: fun, laid-back . . . a couple of interesting guys who really know how to have a good time with a glass of wine.
Zach and Cliff have been [...]

The other day, a fellow WinePodder commented to me that they wanted to practice “non-interventionist” winemaking as much as possible.
Non-interventionist winemaking is a branch of “natural winemaking.” The non-interventionist winemaker in the extreme does not intervene in the winemaking process and lets the wine make itself—good, bad or indifferent.
From this definition, my first winemaking [...]