Uncorked: Negotiating Science and Belief in the Natural Wine Movement

Pablo Alonso González is a Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (IPNA-CSIC). He holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Heritage Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a PhD in History from the University of León, Spain. He has extensively published works on food anthropology, cultural heritage, and cultural history. Recently, his research has focused on the culture and heritage of wine in Spain, emphasizing sustainable and natural production, as well as artisan cider and beer. He has directed six films, including three on Galician wine, with the latest exploring the natural wine phenomenon, titled "Envino Veritas: Galicia from terroir to natural wine".Eva Parga Dans is a Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (IPNA-CSIC). She holds a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Applied Economics. Her research focuses on the sociology of cultural heritage and food, particularly on social value, tradition, quality, and differentiation in food heritage and wine. Currently, she leads a research project titled “The Challenge of Natural Wine Certification: Cultural Controversies, Information Asymmetries, and Consumption Patterns.” This project aims to identify the most efficient mechanisms for all actors in the natural wine value chain—including producers, distributors, regulators, and consumers—to minimize information asymmetries in the market.

• Introduction. The Past and Future of Natural Wine.- An Unnatural History: The Political Invention of Natural Wine in Germany and Austria.- Un-Mastering Life. Law, Value and Locality in Natural Wine Ontology.- Against the Gain (of Sulfur): Wine Preservation and the Production of Viticulture and Winemaking Worlds in France between the Nineteenth and the Twenty-first Centuries.- On the Authenticity of Natural Wine.- Consumers' Preferences and Behaviours for Sustainable and Natural Wines in the Italian Market.- Don’t Call it Organic or Biodynamic: Natural Wine, Product Certifications, and Alternative Signaling Mechanisms.- Natural Wine in Spain through the Case of Gredos: Making Wine, Creating Community.- Unveiling Roots: From the Swartland Revolution to the Pioneers of the Natural Wine Movement in South Africa.- An Institutional Portrait of Natural Wine in Italy: Associations, Fairs, Distributors.- The Retroinnovation Role of Natural Wine-making Philosophy in Hungary in the Shadow of Climate Change.- Natural women: New social actors in the Italian wine field?.- Chinese Wine: Towards Nature and Sustainability.- Add Nothing, take Nothing Away: How Georgian Wine Regained its Identity.- Between Tradition and Innovation: Georgia’s Natural Wine through a Business Sustainability Lens.- Natural wines in Chile: The Re-emergence of the Invisible.- What do Natural Wines Evoke in the Minds and Senses of Wine Drinkers? Effect of Expertise and Culture.- Elemental Composition, Pesticide Residues and Mycotoxins in Natural and Conventional Wines: Insights from Italy and Spain.- A Brief History of the Vin Méthode Nature Syndicat: Paradoxes and Challenges of an Institutionalization Process.- Producing Natural Wine as a Political Choice.- Interview with Aaron Ayscough. Pablo Alonso González.