First of all, “natural wine” is a funny way to describe wine for us at Caaaaaaat, because by definition wine is a man-made product. You cannot stumble across some wine out in the wild, it requires the intervention of winegrower, to come from grapes (those guys are natural!).
So, simply put, natural wine is a wine which is made as naturally as possible:
No synthetic products: not in the vineyards, not in the storehouse, anywhere
Manual harvesting
A total sulphur/SO2 rate lower than 40mg/L
If you want to know more, we have an article about it here.

What is sulphur, also called sulphites, also called SO2, also called E220, sulphur dioxide?
Sulphur dioxide is a colourless gas, with a penetrating smell in its natural form, but discreet when dissolved in a liquid. All fermented products contain sulphur dioxide. It is a natural process from the fermentation. Sulphur is a preservative which is naturally present in fermented products.

Making natural wine is like painting a Rembrandt!
Yes, really. Nothing less.

Producing natural wine takes time, energy, lower yields, and careful grape sorting (to avoid bad bacteria — which would otherwise mean using unbalanced amounts of… sulfur). Naturally, this makes it more expensive to produce.

The better you want to do things, the more time it takes, the more it costs (even if we wish it weren’t so — “time is money,” as said by the guy on the $100 bill).
Caring for the soil means more people in the fields, more hands to prep organic treatments, sort grapes, and vinify with intention. It’s a whole different world: natural wines require more financial resources and fewer environmental ones.

In other words: it hurts your wallet but helps the Planet!

If you are interested in natural wines, you’ve already got some of the information. So, let’s dig a little deeper, together, hand in hand.
Natural wine is a mentality, a way of life. It is about questioning how we live, our place on the planet. Natural wine is free, it is naked, with no additives, no alterations, it reveals itself with its pros and cons (unlike Man, it doesn’t always have them!)
We talked about greenwashing, we can help you to counter it with some handy tips in this article.

All at least 3 years old!
And if you want to keep them for a long time, we recommend setting aside MusCaaaaaaat, Dragon Riding Caaaaaaat, Supreme Caaaaaaat, and Illuminati Caaaaaaat. Be as crazy about wine as we are—taste one bottle each year, for 10 years, to appreciate how it evolves over time.

Every bottle in the Caaaaaaat collection is made, bottled, labelled and packaged at our partner winegrowers’ domains.

Yes!

Yes and no!
Thanks to our logistics partner (big hug to them), we deliver all across mainland France, Corsica, and a few European countries.

If you’d rather chat with wine merchants, pick our bottles from a great restaurant’s wine list, or sip at the bar, check out our list of stockists — we love wine shops and restaurateurs.

For other countries, we sometimes have distributors… and sometimes not yet. Just ask us, we’ll get back to you. And if you can help us find a new one, we’ll send you a lovely gift.

First, because supernovas are truly exceptional interstellar explosions.
They release gas and dust heated to millions of degrees, creating stunning colors. The blues and greens come from X-ray emissions generated by gas heated to extreme temperatures after the blast of the supernova. The red shows burning dust, and the yellow comes from young stars — both seen through infrared detection.

Second, because cats are cosmic and kind of special.
Which raises the question: are they aliens, launched from the edges of the galaxy by the explosion of the Kitty Caaaaaaat supernova?