A Voice for Alternative Mosel

Meet Jas Swan, the micro-négoçiant natural winemaker whose KATLA Wines span Lorraine, the Mosel, and beyond.

The impetus for my trip to the Mosel came from a friend called Jas Swan, who in September was organizing the second edition of “Alternative Mosel & Friends,” a wine fair uniting young natural winemakers and cider-makers from in and around the Mosel, where she herself had begun producing négoçiant wine in 2019. Unfortunately, she wound up having to cance…