Spring-Summer Natural Wine Salons
A calendar of international natural wine tastings for Spring-Summer 2022.
Back in January, I compiled a list of winter and early spring natural wine tasting salons. People seemed to find it helpful. So here’s another list for spring and summer.
For anyone wondering: yes, I do realize an email round-up is an anachronistic way to present this information in an era of online calendars. But information about natural wine salons is almost always atomized throughout various social media networks and email blasts. So I compile it here in the hopes that the mere act of compilation proves useful.
As before, these are just the salons I have on my own radar. (The list is not intended to be globally exhaustive.) Most are aimed at wine professionals, although in practice anyone can get in. I’ll update this post with more information as it comes in. It covers the months of April, May, June, and July 2022. (Events organizers: if I’ve left your event out, please get in touch!)
Lastly, two more reports for paid subscribers:
A Brief History of BOJALIEN, the scrappy BEAUJOLAIS WINE TASTING that has quietly become an unmissable showcase for France’s RADICAL NATURAL WINE FRINGE.
A vineyard tour with the Beaujolais-born Jura virtuoso THOMAS POPY.
Many thanks for reading, as always ! Happy trails.
SPRING-SUMMER 2022 NATURAL WINE TASTINGS
APRIL
April 24th - 25th: LA SAN JORDI A PARIS (Paris, FR)
SITE: Sunday it will be held between Voltaire restaurants Jones and Café du Coin. Monday it will be held at Père Lachaise restaurant Amagat.
HOURS: 11am - 7pm.
WHO: A host of Catalan and Spanish natural wine estates from the catalog of wine agent Adrien Sage, along with French friends including Philippe Bornard and Yoyo.
April 25th: LA GRANGE D’ONCLE CHARLES PORTES OUVERTES (Ostheim, FR)
SITE: 2, rue de la Fecht, 68150 Ostheim
HOURS: 10am-6pm.
WHO: La Grange d’Oncle Charles, Soil Therapy, Anais Fanti, Pierre Weber, Les Enfants Terribles, Jintaro Yura, Pierre Eiche, and Les Vignes du Vingabond.
April 30th: LES INVINCIBLES (Lyon, FR)
SITE: 38 rue de la Viabert, 69006 LYON.
HOURS: 10am - 6pm.
WHO: Domaine Lissner, Bières Ney, Mylène Bru, Maël Quentin, Vin des Potes, Stephan Elzière, Eymin Tichoux, Bruno Barwise, Projet Kamoshika, Lilian Bauchet, Marie Menoux & Thomas Rougier, Sébastien Congretel, Domaine Apffel, Les Jardins de Théseiis, Didier Grappe, Brasserie Les Danaïdes. Organized by Bellecave.
April 30th - May 1st: VIGNAIOLI NATURALI A ROMA (Rome, IT)
SITE: NH Roma Villa Carpegna - Via Pio IV, 6 - 00165 ROME
HOURS: 12pm - 7pm.
WHO: A host of natural vignaioli united by veteran Rome natural wine impresario Tiziana Gallo.
MAY
May 1st: DEUTSCHLAND IN PARIS (Paris, FR)
SITE: Le Consulat, 14 avenue Parmentier, 75011 PARIS
HOURS: 11am-5pm.
WHO: The portfolio tasting of Chambre Noire’s import catalog, including Brand Brothers, Bergkloster, Andi Weigand, PIRI, Marto, and more, plus various friends and allies including Jean-Pierre Robinot, Wasenhaus, and Antoine Couly. Full list here.
May 2nd: LA FIANCEE DU PICRATE (Andert-et-Cordon, FR)
SITE: Domaine de Pacotille, 289 rue de La Chapelle, 01300 ANDERT-ET-CORDON.
HOURS: 10am - 6pm.
WHO: Louis Terral, La Cave du Buizin, Les Cortis, Les Mangeux de Pierre, Nadège Allouch, Domaine d'Ici là, Domaine de Pacotille, Véronique Antoine, Antoine Couly, Domaine de L’Eperon, Domaine du Perron, Vignoble Pellerin, Domaine des Champs du Possible, Domaine des Sonnettes, Les Grangeons de l'Albarine, La Combe aux Rêves, Grain par Grain, Tailleurs Cueilleurs, Domaine Bärtschi.
May 2nd: NIGHTSHOP DEGUSTATION (Brussels, BE)
SITE: Nightshop, Rue de Flandre 167, 1000 BRUSSELS
HOURS: 12pm - 6pm.
WHO: Belgian and German wine, cider and beer makers including 3fonteinen, Brand Bros, Brauerei Kemker, BBP lambics, Drap Wine, Glow Glow, Katla Wines, Piri Wein, Weingut Mann, Weingut Seufert, Wijndomein Rijnrode with more TBA.
May 7th: SUPER NATURAL CHARITY WINE FESTIVAL (Warsaw, Poland)
SITE: Garden of Nafta Neo Bistro - Krakowska 180, Wrocław.
HOURS: 11am - 10pm.
WHO: Some very motivated wine estates ranging from Pittnauer, Oriol Artigas, Krasna Hora, Patrice Beguet, Cascina Tavijn, Charles Dufour, Wasenhaus, and Chateau le Puy, brought together by Ukrainian natural wine importer Sabotage Wine, whose Kiev warehouse was destroyed by a Russian assault. 50% of the tickets sales will go to the Ukrainian military.
May 7th - 8th: PORTES OUVERTES DU TUE-BOEUF (Les Montils, FR)
SITE: Le Clos du Tue-Boeuf, 6 route de Seur, 41120 LES MONTILS
HOURS: 11am - 6pm.
WHO: Yoyo, Domaine Mosse, Potron Minet, Marie Thibault, Les Foulards Rouges, Domaine Aux Moines, Domaine Dufaitre, Frantz Saumon, Domaine Descombes, Cognac Grosperrin, and various purveyors of craft foodstuffs.
May 7th - 8th: A LA RENCONTRE DES VINS NATURELS (Grenoble, FR)
SITE: Salle Robert Fiat, 9 Avenue de la Monta, 38120 SAINT-EGREVE
HOURS: Saturday 10am - 7pm. Sunday 10am - 6pm.
WHO: 23 estates from around France. Full list here.
May 7th - 9th: SOUS LES PAVES, LA VIGNE (Paris, FR)
SITE: La Bellevilloise, 19-21 rue Boyer, 75020 PARIS
HOURS: 10am-7pm.
WHO: 50 estates, plus a book salon, discussions, etc. Organized by journalist Antonin Iommi-Amunategui. Full list here.
May 7th-8th: PREMIERS DE CUVEE (Paris, FR)
SITE: La REcyclerie, 83 boulevard Ornano, 75018 PARIS
HOURS: 11am - 6pm.
WHO: 30 estates, all founded within the last three years. Organized by SOIF, a natural wine events distribution agency.
May 7th-8th: CHAI L’UN, CHAI L’AUTRE (Courgis, FR)
SITE: 2, grande rue Nicolas Droin, 89800 COURGIS
HOURS: Saturday 1pm - 6pm. Sunday 10am - 5pm.
WHO: 30 or so estates. Organized by the De Moors and Thomas Pico. Full list here.
May 13th: ZERO COMPROMISE (Tbilisi, GE)
SITE: N59, Kostava Street, Tbilisi
HOURS: 11am - 5pm.
WHO: 105 natural wine estates. A selection is presented here.
May 14th: LES VINS AU VERT (Glaine-Montaigut, FR)
SITE: Le Bourg, 63160 GLAINE-MONTAIGUT
HOURS: 10am - 8pm.
WHO: 26 natural vignerons. List not yet available. Hosted by the association Une Autre Idée du Vin.
May 14th: LES VINS CROYABLES (Nantes, FR)
SITE: Ti Lichous, 12 rue Grande Biesse, 44200 NANTES
HOURS: 11am - 7pm.
WHO: 10 vignerons from the Loire.
May 15th: POTS DE VIN (Clisson, FR)
SITE: Les Halles, 44190 CLISSON
HOURS: 11am - 9pm.
WHO: A market of ceramics and organic and natural wine, including folks like Guillaume Lavie, La Paonnerie, and Le Picatier. Full list here.
May 15th - 16th: INDIGENES (Perpignan, FR)
SITE: Parc de clairfont, 1 Bd de Clairfont, 66350 TOULOUGES
HOURS: Sunday 10:30am - 6pm. Monday 10:30am - 5pm.
WHO: A who’s-who of influential natural wine estates from Catalonia, the Roussillon, and the Languedoc, along with a market of divserse paysan crafts and foodstuffs. Full list here. Organized by Jean Lhéritier, Laurent Roger, Laurent Pujol, Marc Meya, Mélissa Ingrand, and Romain Margueritte.
May 16th: ALTIVINS (Perpignan, FR)
SITE: Château Saint-Nicolas, 66300 PONTEILLA
HOURS: 10am - 7pm.
WHO: A satellite salon of Indigènes, featuring a slightly odd, international grouping of natural and not-quite-so-natural estates whose vines are situated no lower than 400m altitude. Full list here.
May 16th: LES ANIMES DU VIN (Marseille, FR)
SITE: 26 Rue des trois Mages, 13006 MARSEILLE
HOURS: 1pm - 11pm.
WHO: Gilles Azzoni, Domaine du Mazel, Andréa Calek, Nicolas Duponcelle, Jérome Chastagnol, Domaine Mourressipe, L'Albertine, Les Chants Jumeaux (Loire), Pour du vin Nat(h), C.U.V.E, Potlatch, Domaine des Combres, La Cabrery, La Caillasse, Les Maoù, Domaine Regarde Moi Venir, Le Temps des Rêveurs.
May 19th: KARAKTERRE (Eisenstadt, Austria)
SITE: Orangerie Schlosspark Eisenstadt, 7000 Eisenstadt, Austra
HOURS: 11am - 6pm.
WHO: The crème de la crème of natural wine estates from Austria and central Europe, brought together by Croatian natural wine renaissance man Marko Kovac. Full list here.
May 22nd - 23rd: THE REAL WINE FAIR (London, UK)
SITE: Tobacco Dock, Wapping Lane, LONDON E1W 2SF
HOURS: 10am-6pm. Monday is not open to the public, only to wine professionals.
WHO: 160+ biodynamic and natural wine estates. Full list here.
May 22nd - 23rd: VI.NO.SO (Amsterdam, NL)
SITE: Hotel Goudfazant + FC Hyena – Aambeeldstraat 24, Amsterdam
HOURS: Sunday 12pm - 6pm. Monday 11am - 5pm.
WHO: Sixty estates. Billed as “a celebration of natural wine from Germany to Georgia, from Spain to Slovakia.”
May 22nd - 23rd: TERRAVIVA IN DEGUSTAZIONE (Rome, IT)
SITE: Casali di Capobianco, via Nomentana n. 1451, Roma
HOURS: Sunday 10am-7pm. Monday 10am - 3pm.
WHO: Full list here.
May 23rd: ROUGE PROVENCE (Saint-Remy de Provence, FR)
SITE: Domaine Milan, 941 Voie Aurelia, 13210 SAINT-REMY-DE-PROVENCE
HOURS: 10am-6pm.
WHO: Full list here.
May 28th: LES 9 CAVES (Banyuls-sur-Mer, FR)
SITE: Les 9 Caves, 56 avenue Général de Gaule, 66650 BANYULS SUR MER
HOURS: From 11am.
WHO: Line-up not yet published. Billed as “a one-day eruption of all the beauty that our side of the Mediterranean has to offer.”
May 28th - 29th: EXTRA BRUT(ES) (Regnéville-sur-Mer, FR)
SITE: Les Sablons, 50590 REGNEVILLE-SUR-MER
HOURS: Saturday 10am - 7pm. Sunday 10am - 6pm.
WHO: Many excellent natural wine estates from the orbit of co-organizer Paul Gillet, along with a wide contingent of natural cider producers from around Normandy and Brittany. Full list here.
May 28th - 29th: PORTES OUVERTES MOSSE (Saint-Aubin-de-Luigné, FR)
SITE: La Bergerie, Saint-Aubin-de-Luigné, 49190 VAL DU LAYON
HOURS: 11am - 7pm.
WHO: Domaine Mosse, Domaine Carette, Les Errances, Guillaume Noire, Olivier Lejeune, Jurgen Gouws, Christophe Heiss, Brasserie Papyllon, and more.
JUNE
June 3rd-5th: LES PAPILLES RESISTENT (Ivry-sur-Seine, FR)
SITE: La Cave d’Ivry, 40 Rue Marat, 94200 IVRY-SUR-SEINE
HOURS: Friday 5pm - 10pm, Saturday 10am - 8pm, Sunday 10am- 7pm.
WHO: Pauline Broqua, Domaine Balansa, Christophe Lindenlaub, Les Chemins de l’Arkose, Domaine des Fables, Domaine Agarrus, Domaine Frea, Jocelyn Stadaroli, Combe au Mas, Cidrerie Antoine Marois.
June 4th: FERME OUVERTE DE L’ART ET DU COCHON (Chémillé en Anjou, FR)
SITE: Lieu-dit Les Bonnevilles, 49670 CHEMILLE EN ANJOU
HOURS: 2pm - 7pm.
WHO: Adrien di Mello, Didier Chaffardon, Autre Chose, Nicolas Arnou, Nicolas Petite, Le Vin du Batossay, Le Monde Est Petit, La Ferme de la Motte, Les Rêves Oubliés, Terre to Wine, Clément Poirel, La Tour Brune, Cidre Max Jouade, Domaine de Trivel, Brasserie Papposilene, Brasseries les Notes en Bulles, Le Thio Noots.
June 4th: SALON DE LA GNOLE NATURELLE (Lamure-sur-Azergues, FR)
SITE: Quartier Métisseur, 267 rue Centrale, 69870 LAMURE-SUR-AZERGUES
HOURS: 2pm - 8pm.
WHO: Distillerie Chant du Cygne, Distillerie L’Atelier du Bouilleur, Quentin Le Cleac’h, La Piautre, Atelier Constant Berger, Alcools Vivants, Coeur de Cuivre, La Distillerie du Renard, Maison Ferroni, Distillerie Spiral, Distillerie L’Eau des Vivants, Sake les Larmes du Levant, Brasserie Valdaz.
June 4th-5th: LES PORTES OUVERTES DE CHRISTIAN VENIER & CO. (Candé-sur-Beuvron, FR)
SITE: 3 rue de Puits, 41120 CANDE-SUR-BEUVRON
HOURS: 10am - 6pm.
WHO: Christian Venier, Benoit Courault, Laurent Saillard, Noëlla Morantin, Jeff Coutelou, and a surprise guest.
June 5th: BAMBOCHE (Lagrasse, FR)
SITE: Château Saint-Auriol, 11220 LAGRASSE (near Narbonne)
HOURS: 10am - 7pm.
WHO: Around thirty estates from the orbit of organizer Géraldine Gottdiener, including Peira Levada, Clos Fantine, Sons of Wine, Domaine Derain, François Saint-Lô, Opi d’Aqui, and more.
June 5th-6th: TUTTO IN UN SORSO (Montalcino, IT)
SITE: Centro Collinare L’Osservanza, 53024 MONTALCINO
HOURS: 11am - 7pm.
WHO: Organized by Marco Arturi and Francesco Padovani, the salon includes La Stoppa, Foradori, Thierry Puzelat, Keti Berishvili, John Okro, Pheasant’s Tears, Trinchero, Laureano Serres, Nuria Renom, and more. Full list here.
June 11th: BIOJOLEYNES (Leynes, FR)
SITE: la place du village, 71258 LEYNES
HOURS: 10am - 7pm.
WHO: Twenty or so radical natural Beaujolais estates from the orbit of organizer Philippe Jambon. Full list here.
June 12th: VIVENT LES VINS LIBRES… (Paris, FR)
SITE: Fulgurances à l’Entrepôt, 7 rue Francis de Pressensé, 75014 PARIS
HOURS: 11am-6:30pm.
WHO: List not yet available. Presumably it will be posted here.
June 12th: PORTES OUVERTES AU POIRA - QUASTANA / LAVAYSSE (Fougères-sur-Bièvre, FR)
SITE: La Poira, 41120 FOUGERES-SUR-BIEVRE
HOURS: 11am-6:30pm.
WHO: Jérémy Quastana, Barbara Lebled, Les Capriades, Jérôme Balmet, Autour de l’Anne, Marc Pesnot, Chahut et Prodiges, and more.
June 19th: VINI MARIANI CATALOG TASTING (Paris, FR)
SITE: Restaurant Laïa, 226 Boulevard Voltaire, 75011 PARIS
HOURS: 11:30am - 5:30pm. Party from 5:30pm onwards.
WHO: The portfolio tasting of Paris Italian natural wine agency Vini Mariani.
June 19th - 20th: CONTRASTES (Rodez, FR)
SITE: Station A, Rue Eugène Loup, 12000 RODEZ
HOURS: 10am-7pm.
WHO: 91 natural vignerons from 16 routinely-overlooked appellations of the South-West of France. Full list here.
June 26th: PORTES OUVERTES DE LA BRASSERIE HEIMA (Pouillé, FR)
SITE: Brasserie Heima, 2-4, D17, 41110 POUILLE
HOURS: 11am - 6pm.
WHO: Ten natural winemakers from the Cher valley, along with host Brasserie Heima. List forthcoming here.
JULY
July 3rd - 4th: H2O VEGETAL (El Pinell de Brai, ES)
SITE: To be confirmed.
HOURS: To be confirmed.
WHO: To be confirmed. Organized by Joan-Ramon Escoda and Laureano Serres.
July 9th: SALON VERRES CORPS ET AMES (Beauvoir, FR)
SITE: Couvent des Carmes, 1 ancienne route de Presles, 38160 BEAUVOIR-EN-ROYANS
HOURS: 10am - 7pm.
WHO: Domaine des Deux Terres, Didier Cazac, Maud Adnot, Lilian Bauchet, Laure et Benjamin Yvernay, Nathalie Cornec, Domaine Jajaland, La Combe du Jardinier, Frédéric Rivaton. Clos Massotte, Les Rêves Oubliées. Organized by Dominique Couderc and Anne Bouillot.
July 10th: BEDROCK BY THE RIVER (London, UK)
SITE: The Master Shipwrights House, Deptford. Watergate St, London SE8 3JF
HOURS: 11am - 7pm.
WHO: A one-day fair celebrating 20+ estates from France, Germany, Spain and the UK. Confirmed list here, with more to come. Organized by Wines Under The Bonnet, Oltros Vinos, and Joel Wright.
July 10th - 11th: SUMMERFASCHT (Strasbourg, FR)
SITE: L’Illiade, 11 All. François Mitterrand, 67400 ILLKIRCH-GRAFFENSTADEN
HOURS: Sunday 11am - 7pm, then a party with music until 3am. Monday 11am - 4pm.
WHO: Forty-four Alsace vignerons. Full list here.
July 10th - 11th: BOJALIEN EN VADROUILLE (Etables, FR)
SITE: Rémi et Patricia Bonneton, 315 route de Chere, 07300 ETABLES
HOURS: TBC.
WHO: List not yet available. Presumably it will be posted here.
July 16th-17th: SALON DES VINS LIBRES (Mittelbergheim, FR)
SITE: Le Biotope, 67140 MITTELBERGHEIM
HOURS: 10am - 6pm.
WHO: List not yet published. Generally a sterling group of vignerons from throughout France, united by founders Christian Binner, Patrick Meyer, Jean-Pierre Frick, and Bruno Schueller.
July 17th: BULLES AU CENTRE (Faverolles-sur-Cher, FR)
SITE: Le Grand Monarque, 2 rue Chrétien 41170 MONDOUBLEAU
HOURS: 11am - 7pm.
WHO: A cavalcade of pét-nat producers. List not yet available. Presumably it will be posted here.
July 24th: HAUT LES MAINS (Gamay, FR)
SITE: 8 rue de la chateniere, 21190 SAINT-AUBIN
HOURS: 10am - 6pm.
WHO: Vins Noé, Bastien Wolber, Katie Worobeck, Domaine Dandelion, Domaine Chapel, Wasenhaus, Vincent Marie, Romain Chapuis, Joachim Skyaasen, Yannick Meckert, Charles Dufour, Domaine de Bichery, and more.
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