UNFILTERED AND FINE By Andrea Eby, DipWSET, Sommelier, IWS, CSW Photo by Ian McCausland We live a filtered life. From our online personas, to our water, to our wine, we are a culture obsessed with removing impurities and imperfections. A quick search of mobile apps alone reveals hundreds of tools designed to blur away our imperfections, giving us bigger eyes and smaller noses. A civilization far in the future discovering
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a cache of such photos would think we lived in a time of godlike good looks. But what if we removed the filters from our lives and began to reassert our authenticity? This quest for authenticity has inspired a new generation of winemakers to return to the roots of winemaking and begin to redefine what real wine is.
