Alice Feiring, a pioneer in the natural wine movement since 2001, challenges claims that natural wine has peaked. She believes that the recent popularity of heavily additive wines is merely a temporary trend, stating that natural wine represents a tradition that will endure. Feiring's early experiences with wine in the 1990s helped shape her perspective, as she favored traditionally made wines over commercially popular varieties fueled by various metrics, like the Robert Parker effect. She argues that the essence of natural wine remains timeless and integral to wine culture.
"My first big wine story came out in 2001-after which, I was immediately branded as a natural wine writer. That was the beginning of my public reputation and the end of my being able to make a living."
"Additive-heavy wine is the blip. That's the trend. Natural wine, however, is the tradition. It's around forever, and it'll around forever."
"My wine education began in the '90s before the whole Robert Parker effect took over. I was drinking 'the classics'-and I found that most of what I was drawn to was traditionally made wine."
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