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How low-intervention wines went from a niche market to a global hit Lo-fi wine: the natural wine movement has long resisted attempts to be defined. Photograph: Getty Images Lo-fi wine: the natural wine movement has long resisted attempts to be defined. Photograph: Getty Images Sun 3 Jan 2021 01.00 EST Solara Natural Red, Romania 2019 (£10.50, noblegreenwines.co.uk) The back-to-basics natural wine movement has had an enormous impact on the way wine is made and sold in the past couple of decades. As I wrote in these pages back in April, having long resisted any attempts to pin down exactly what the term meant, some of the loosely defined, slightly anarchic group of producers that line up under the natural umbrella in France set out some rules for a new official category, Vin Méthode Nature last year. Grapes must be organic or biodynamic; yeasts must be wild (as opposed to commercially cultivated); and there are strict limits on the use of the preservative sulphur d ....