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22.01.2022 2016 Domaine de Courbissac 'Les Traverses' The sub-region of Minervois lies in the massive Languedoc wine-region in France, a place where bulk wine reigns supreme. It’s also a place where independent-minded winemakers like Brunnhilde Claux choose to swim against the tide by farming biodynamically in a sea of commercial producers, and creating wines with finesse and detail in this hot and dry part of the world. This wine is a blend of the local varieties of Grenac...he, Syrah, and Mourvèdre. The result is full-bodied, dark and brooding, with aromas of bramble and mulberry and grippy, grippy tannins. This wine screams out for a well-marbled steak or some lamb chops. Probably not one to drink on its own, unless you really want to! This is one of our current featured wines, available in our Red or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

22.01.2022 2019 Smallfry 'Tangerine Dream' Winemaker Wayne Ahrens has only been making this wine for three vintages, but he seems to be on to something. This is very much a skin-contact orange wine, but not a scary one by any stretch. It’s bright and fruit-driven, with flavours of tangerine peel and ripe peach, along with more oxidative elements of beeswax rounding them out. The blend is an eclectic combination of 5 grape varieties, though mostly Riesling and Pedro Ximenez from the ...last place in the Barossa Valley that still grows them. Truly unique, and pairs great with charcuterie platters, roast chicken, and even heartier stews. Also, it’s a total gateway wine for those red-only drinkers! This is one of our current featured wines, available in our White or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Click the link in our bio to join now!

21.01.2022 This is a fair question we’ve been asked. If Feravina is all about healthier wines and we only feature wines below 13.5% alcohol, then why not sell alcohol-free wine? So, we went out and tried a few readily available alcohol-free wines and we found some solid reasons not to sell them. Most importantly, they tasted awful Sour, unbalanced, and lacking any compelling flavours. ... Also, they weren’t natural, far from it. None were organic (nor could we find any that were), they were dealcoholised using industrial methods, the base wine was commercially made using lots of additives, with grape juice concentrate and thickeners added on top of that. As usual it didn’t say how much sulphur was used, but we could distinctly smell it so probably A LOT. And finally, it contained a whopping 45g/L of sugar! Which is high even when compared to regular dry commercial wine standards (12g/L), let alone our trace-sugar-only standards (<3g/L). We focus on natural wines not only because they’re the healthier option, but also because we want to drink the way we eat (organic, with no additives) and because we think these wines are superior in flavour and quality. Unfortunately, a natural alcohol-free wine cannot exist, because fermentation, the process that produces the flavours that we enjoy in wine, also inevitably produces alcohol. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

21.01.2022 2019 Ephemera 'Negroamaro' Rhen Dodd and Janelle De Gabriele are all about making invigorating wines, which makes their label Ephemera a most appropriate name. They must have a passion for taking unusual grape varieties and making them shine, because that’s exactly what they’ve done with this wine. Negroamaro is a red grape from the south of Italy, but for whatever reason, here it’s been grown in Heathcote and used to make a most curious and delicious white wine! ... The wine is decidedly medium-bodied, with aromas of white rose, white peach and guava and has a smooth, silky texture while still being crisp. Drink it with barbecued seafood and share it with friends, because they’ll never have tried anything like it! This is one of our current featured wines, available in our White or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

20.01.2022 2019 Brackenwood 'Gamay - Pinot Noir' The Brackenwood vineyard is located high up in the Adelaide Hills, within a lush forest at the site where a deer farm once was, and where deer still roam happily today. Owner Damon Nagel started as a sommelier and he and winemaker Laz Horvath have a deep commitment to biodynamic farming and aren’t afraid to think outside the box, using unique blends and maturing wine in Hungarian oak instead of the more fashionable French oak.... This wine is a blend of Gamay and Pinot Noir, something almost never seen outside of Burgundy, and rarely even there. It’s light with crunchy, tangy fruit and a savoury edge and is a red you could totally drink with fish or by itself while watching a movie. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our Red or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

20.01.2022 2019 Domaine Laguerre 'Eos Blanc' When Éric Laguerre took over his family’s vineyards in 1999, he and his wife Corinne decided to go back to basics, farming biodynamically and making wine naturally. Their high-altitude French region of Roussillon, next to the Spanish Mediterranean border, lends itself to structured yet lively wines. This wine is a blend of two local indigenous varieties, Grenache Blanc and Macabeu. It’s all about energy and texture backed with a bit of... body, aromas of white peach and a bit of pleasant grip on the palate. This wine is incredibly versatile but it’s ideal pairing would be white fleshed fish served with beurre blanc. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our White or Mixed packs. All Feravina wines are natural and meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Grab a wine pack today!

19.01.2022 If you're in Melbourne or Sydney*, today is your last chance to get your orders in if you want to receive your pack of Feravina natural wines by Christmas! Unfortunately, for the rest of Australia it's too late but we should still be able to get your wine to you in time for New Year's Eve everywhere except WA. Have a very Merry Christmas everyone, be kind to yourselves and your loved ones and we'll see you on the other side! ... *With the border closures and long delays at the border between VIC and NSW there is some chance that our Sydney customers don't get their packs by Christmas. It's unfortunate but sadly there is little we can do about it and can't really guarantee anything at the moment even though we're being told that delivery services should be able to get across the border without issues... All Feravina wines are natural and meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Grab a wine pack today!

19.01.2022 2018 Coffele 'Castel Cerino' In the Veneto sub-region of Soave, brother and sister team, Alberto and Chiara Coffele, have roots as deep as the limestone that runs beneath their vines. The Coffeles were the first family in this region to convert to organic viticulture, setting an example that’s followed by more and more other growers today. Made from the local white variety Garganega, the wine is light-to-medium-bodied, soft and mouth-filling with flavours of orch...ard fruits, particularly green apple. In fact, the wine has a texture that can best be described as biting into a big, crunchy apple! Enjoy this on its own, although it’s also lovely alongside some delicate white fish. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our White or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

18.01.2022 Organic or biodynamic certification is important, and it does instil a certain level of confidence. But a lack of certification doesn’t necessarily mean a wine is inferior in any way. There are many truly organic and biodynamic producers who choose not to go down the road to being certified for a variety of reasons: 1. Certification is expensive, and many small producers simply don’t have the money to invest in it.... 2. There can be a lot of bureaucracy involved in getting certified, and some producers would rather focus on growing grapes and making wine rather than jumping through hoops. 3. Many small producers are more akin to farmers than fancy winemakers, and they simply farm organically or biodynamically because they see it as the best way to farm, not because it allows them to market their wines differently. 4. Biodynamic producers in particular view themselves as somewhat rebellious, going against the mainstream of commercial winemaking, so going through a certification process is antithetical to their nature. 5. The certified organic label is unfortunately viewed by some consumers as indicating healthier and therefore worse tasting wine. This couldn’t be more wrong, but it is a reason why some organic producers choose not to associate with that label. This is why at Feravina, we appreciate organic/biodynamic certification but we don’t require it. We only really care about substance, so if a wine is made naturally using organically or biodynamically grown grapes, then the presence or absence of a logo on the back of the bottle is irrelevant. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

18.01.2022 2018 Chai Saint Etienne 'Les Verres en l'Air' Chai Saint Etienne is situated in the tiny sub-region of Quercy, part of the largely ignored French wine region known simply as Sud-Ouest, or the South-West. There are only 20 wine growers in Quercy, and the Gisbert family is one of them and has been since 1778! This wine is made from the nearly extinct grape variety, Jurançon Noir, and is almost certainly the only such wine that can be found in Australia. It is light... bodied, dark, and spicy but not without a certain freshness and liveliness. This incredibly unique wine is one to savour and contemplate, possibly with a selection of charcuterie to keep it company. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our Red or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get a $20 off each every time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

18.01.2022 Alcohol-free wine is something we looked at when we were starting Feravina. After all, we're all about enjoying wine that won't get in the way of a healthy lifestyle, so an alcohol-free wine would fit right in with this philosophy, right? We went out and tried some alcohol-free wines and we realised we couldn't include them for a number of reasons. Most importantly, they tasted awful Sour, unbalanced, and lacking any compelling flavours. ... Also, they weren’t natural, far from it. None were organic (nor could we find any that were), they were dealcoholised using industrial methods, the base wine was commercially made using lots of additives, and various thickeners added on top of that. As usual it didn’t say how much sulphur was used, but we could distinctly smell it, so probably A LOT. And finally, it contained a whopping 45g/L of sugar! Which is high even compared to regular dry commercial wine standards (12g/L), let alone our keto-friendly standards (<3g/L). We focus on natural wines not only because they’re the healthier option, but also because we want to drink the way we eat (organic, with no additives) and because we think these wines are superior in flavour and quality. Unfortunately, a natural alcohol-free wine cannot exist, because the process of removing the alcohol and then making the wine palatable will never be a natural process. All Feravina wines are natural and meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Grab a wine pack today!

18.01.2022 Antioxidants in grapes aren’t just there for our benefit. They’re an important defence for the vines against pests that want to feast on the juicy grapes. This is why natural wines generally have higher levels of antioxidants than their conventional and commercial counterparts, because pesticides aren’t used in their farming. When pesticides are used on grapes, they discourage the vines from investing in their own pest-control. These grapes end up with lower levels of an...tioxidants, because they aren’t needed, the chemical pesticides are already taking care of the problem. Natural wines however, are made from organically or biodynamically grown grapes, so the vines are encouraged to produce higher levels of antioxidants in the grapes to protect them from pesky pests. These increased levels of antioxidants then find their way to your wine glass. Red wines contain way more antioxidants than white wines, since these compounds like resveratrol and quercetin are found in the skin of the grape, and red wines are made from whole grapes including the skin, while most whites are made just from the juice. It’s just one of the many ways in which natural wines are the healthier option when it comes to wine. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

17.01.2022 You might be surprised that there can be a fair bit of carbs in the form of sugar hidden in the wine you drink. Unless the wine you're drinking comes from Feravina, that is. There are some real big offenders, like Moscato and Passion Pop, with more than 80g/L of sugar. Sometimes as much as Coke! Other wines to watch out for are those with cleverly hidden sugar. These are supposedly ‘dry’ sparkling wines and cheaper commercial wines.... Prosecco labelled ‘Extra Dry’ deceptively contains up to 17g/L of sugar, and ‘Brut’ Champagne contains up to 12g/L. Finally, watch out for commercial wines. Bag-in-box wines as well as big corporate labels that sell their wines for less than $15 per bottle. These wines, though marketed as dry, generally contain up to 12g/L of sugar. This is because they’re made with cheap poor-quality grapes that lack flavour and the sugar masks this and makes the wines seem more fruity and full-bodied. Unfortunately, wines aren’t required to put nutritional info on the label so these sugar levels are hidden from us. This is why we at Feravina only select wines that don’t contain any unnecessary sugar, with only trace unfermentable amounts (less than 3g/L, or 0.5g net carbs per glass) being allowed in our wines. So at most, a glass of one of our wines is equivalent to the sugar in the squeeze of lime you’d put into a vodka soda. Perfect if you’re on a keto diet and want to maintain ketosis. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Link's in our bio! See more

17.01.2022 NV Tenute Dettori 'Renosu Rosso' Wines of the idiosyncratic Alessandro Dettori have a bit of a cult following. Situated on the Italian island of Sardinia in the sub-region of Sennori, he’s fanatical about biodynamics and natural practices, and only grows varieties native to Sardinia, shunning more fashionable global varieties. This particular wine is no exception, made predominantly from the locally ubiquitous Cannonau variety, with a splash of the rarely seen Mo...nica and Pascale. There’s no vintage since it’s a blend of aged base wine with young new wine. It’s medium-bodied, gamey and meaty with a hint of sweet balsamic notes. The perfect wine to enjoy with slow cooked meat or a mushroom risotto! This is one of our current featured wines, available in our Red or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get a $20 off each every time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au to join now! See more

16.01.2022 You might think that all wine contains is just fermented grape juice, right? If only that were true In fact more than 80 different additives are allowed in Australian wine by law, with similar numbers allowed in various international wines as well. So, if these commercial wines had to have an ingredients label, this is what would be on it:... - A slew of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides used in commercial vineyards, residues from which can easily find their way into the finished wine. - Packet yeasts, sometimes genetically modified, along with yeast nutrients used to keep ferments going reliably. - Enzymes, used to break down grape skins, among other things. - Cheap oak barrel alternatives like wood chips and sawdust to get that oak-like flavour in reds. - Artificial colours like Mega Purple to make wines appear to have deeper colour. - Structure adjusters like tartaric acid and powdered tannins. - Fining agents like milk casein, egg albumin and isinglass (slurry made from fish bladders) used to make wines have a brighter, clearer appearance. - Sulphur based preservatives, lots and lots of them. Commercial grapes are usually hit with sulphur after being picked, then again after being crushed, then again after fermentation, and one last time before being bottled. It’s a real shame that wines don’t have ingredient labels to show this to wine drinkers everywhere. Our wines, like all other wines, don’t have ingredient labels either, but if they did they would say: Organically/biodynamically grown grapes, minimal SO2 (<50ppm). That’s it! All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

12.01.2022 If you’re vegan, or following a plant based diet, you may have been drinking wine that isn’t vegan for years. But, how is wine not vegan? It’s just fermented grape juice, right? Unfortunately, that is usually not the case, and the wine you’re drinking may not be vegan for two main reasons. The first reason is fining agents. After wine has been made but before it’s been bottled, it’s still a bit cloudy. Especially if it’s a commercial wine that’s been made quickly and it...s producer is eager to rush it out to market as soon as possible. So to make the wine star bright and visually appealing, fining agents are added to the wine. These fining agents then bind to tiny undissolved particles suspended in the wine and gum them all together, so they can easily be filtered out. Unfortunately, these fining agents are often animal products; gelatine, egg white albumin, casein, and isinglass (slurry made from fish bladders). The second reason is material other than grapes or MOGS. When grapes are machine-picked instead of hand-picked, it is a fairly violent and indiscriminate process. MOGS refers to all the material that ends up among the picked grapes, including twigs, leaves, and various insects and small animals that may live on or among the vines. Mechanically picked grapes are then mechanically sorted, which is an imprecise process, so some of these unfortunate animals sometimes end up in the finished wine! So if you’re vegan, or following a plant based diet, wines made from hand-picked grapes that are unfined, or at least not fined using animal products, might be what you’re looking for. Luckily, at Feravina, we only select vegan-friendly wines that fit both of these criteria so you can rest easy and enjoy our wines without worries. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Feravina.com.au See more

12.01.2022 2017 Vincent Giraudon 'Tentation Rosé' Vincent Giraudon is a native of the little-known French wine region of Côte Roannaise, which is sandwiched between the Loire Valley to its west and Burgundy to its east. This is where his tiny 5 hectare biodynamic estate is nestled. This rosé is made from a local variant of Gamay called Gamay Saint-Romain. The wine is juicy and energetic, with distinct aromas of blueberry, and richer in flavour than one generally expects fr...om rosés, especially French ones. This is certainly a good wine to enjoy as an aperitif or on its own, though it’ll also pair beautifully with curries or your favourite Asian noodle dish. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our Red or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! @domaine_des_pothiers @romaindespothiers @felixirwine See more

11.01.2022 If you’ve tried natural wine, you’d know they’re usually bursting with flavour and liveness, and that sometimes, you’re gifted with surprise elements you don’t tend to see in commercial wines, like wine crystals, sediment, or a light fizz in still wines. While you might think these are faults in the wine, often they’re part of the natural winemaking process. Tartrate crystals (AKA wine diamonds) are little crystals that can be found in natural white wines, and occasionall...y some reds. They’re completely flavourless and harmless, and are simply there because the wine hasn’t gone through cold stabilisation and filtration of the crystals which happens in conventional winemaking. They clump together at the bottom of the bottle, so you likely won’t notice them until the end. Drink the last couple of sips from your last glass slowly and these wine diamonds will stick to your glass (and you can marvel at their beauty!). Cloudiness and sediment may appear in some natural wines if they are unfiltered. This is totally fine and normal. The heavier sediment will stay in the bottom of the bottle if you pour your wine slowly, and the lighter particles making the wine cloudy are often an important part of the wine’s flavour profile and texture. Natural wines are bottled with little to no added sulphur. To prevent the wines from spoiling, one tool a winemaker can use is to bottle the wine right before the fermentation is finished, causing some of the CO2 produced to dissolve into the wine, making it ever so slightly fizzy. This dissolved CO2 then acts as a natural preservative. Have you ever encountered any of these natural wine oddities? Did you freak out? Let us know in the comments! If you’re interested in natural wine and are looking to get a bit adventurous, why not join our wine club? All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get $20 off each every time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au to join now!

11.01.2022 Sometimes people tell us they don’t like natural wine - they’ve tried a few and think they taste weird and funky! After having tried thousands of natural wines, we know that they’ve likely tried poor or faulty examples, which has put them off forever. Just like getting food poisoning from an oyster would put you off oysters! There are many amazing natural wines out there that are delicious, lively and far superior to most conventional wines! There’s an idea that natural w...ine isn’t as good quality as conventional wine. This started when it became trendy to make natural wine, and a small number of inexperienced natural winemakers started to release their wines with obvious wine faults such as high levels of bacterial taint, mousiness, or volatile acidity, passing these off as features of natural wine. This was so unfortunate and hurt the reputation of the whole movement... Luckily, such producers are far less common now than they were 10 or so years ago when natural wines really took off. While it’s true that some natural wines are more likely to have some funky and savoury flavours, these same flavours are often present and sought after in high-quality conventional wines. Natural wines also tend to be made from unusual blends or grapes from unknown regions, but only because natural winemakers are just often more adventurous in using rare or ancient grapes, or reinvigorating old local varieties that are perfect for the growing region they’re in, resulting in some incredibly unique and delicious wines. That said, there are still plenty of natural wines made using classic grape varieties in classic regions. Natural wine is wine the way wine was meant to be, and at Feravina we only ever select natural wines that we find absolutely delicious! All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get a $20 off each every time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au to join now! See more

09.01.2022 Sulphites are an allergen, and while very few people have full-blown life-threatening allergic reaction to sulphites, sulphite sensitivities are common and can cause headaches, sinus inflammation, rashes and a myriad of other issues. This is why every product (not just wine) with a sulphite concentration of more than 10mg per kg or litre has to have the words Contains Sulphites somewhere on the label. But many Natural Wines don't have any added sulphites so why is thi...s on their labels too? Sulphites are actually a natural bi-product of the winemaking process. In fact, 10-20mg/L of sulphites would be present in a wine, even if not a single drop was added by the winemaker. This Contains Sulphites labelling threshold is therefore actually extremely low, which is why every bottle of wine, no matter how natural or commercial it is, will have it on the label. This doesn’t mean that all wines are created equal when it comes to sulphite content though. Far from it Commercial and conventional wines can have up to 250mg/L of sulphites and many commercial wines come very close to that, while natural wines have much less. In the case of natural wines we select for our wine club, that level has to be less than 50mg/L, and most of our wines don’t even come close to that. If you are understandably concerned about sulphites in your wine, you won’t be able to avoid them completely, but you can minimise them by drinking natural wines like ours. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now!

08.01.2022 2019 Das Juice 'Cabernet Sauvignon' Das Juice is a little winemaking collaboration between business partners James Audas and Tom Sheer. These guys’ day job is running the natural wine distributor Lo-Fi Wines, but this hasn’t stopped them from making this top-notch natural red wine. Made from fruit from the unsung wine region of Fleurieu Peninsula, which sits next to its far more famous neighbour, McLaren Vale, this is an easy-drinking take on classic Aussie Cabe...rnet Sauvignon. It has a classic flavour profile with cassis, jammy blackberry and aniseed flavours, though is medium-bodied and lively instead of big and brooding. It’s so versatile, so drink it with red meat and mushrooms but also a nice piece of salmon. Why not?! This is one of our current featured wines, available in our Red or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

07.01.2022 2019 Ca' di Rajo 'Lemoss' Simone, Alessio and Fabio Cecchetto, the three brothers who run the Ca’ di Rajo winery in Veneto, the historic home of Prosecco, are quite the innovators. Chief among their innovations is the Bellussera vine training method, which elevates the vines metres off the ground allowing food crops to be grown underneath. This wine is a Prosecco the way Prosecco used to be made - fermented naturally in the bottle instead of a giant industrial tank. A ...crisp yet juicy sparkling wine with aromas of mandarin and green apple with some bitter lemon undertones. Drink it very cold as an aperitif or with light vegetarian dishes. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our White or Mixed packs. All Feravina wines are natural and meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Grab a wine pack today! @eurocentricwine @cadirajo.wines

06.01.2022 As a health-focused wine club, we’re pretty picky about the wines we choose. Not only do they need to taste amazing, they also need to fit the following criteria to give you guys a cleaner drinking experience: - Grapes grown using organic or biodynamic viticulture - Wild fermented (no GMO packet yeasts) - No additives and no industrial adjustments... - Less than 50ppm total sulphur - Less than 3g/L residual sugar (so keto and paleo friendly) - Less than 13.5% ABV - Vegan friendly If a wine matches these criteria, we move on to the next stage: Tasting! We taste every single wine before including it in our boxes. In fact, the whole team needs to unanimously agree that we like a wine before it’s given the go-ahead. If it doesn’t get a ‘Wow, that’s amazing!’ response from us, then it doesn’t make the cut. If it does, it goes on to the list of potentials. From here, we choose what wines to put in each box. We want to make sure there’s a healthy mix of local and international wines, as well as styles and varieties, in addition to making sure that our members are always getting new wines to try. We know you guys love your Shiraz, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay though we love wowing you with some lesser known, but just as delicious, wines! So that’s about it! We hope you enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look at how we at Feravina choose our wines. Have you tried them yet, and if so, what’s been your favourite wine so far? And if you're not a member yet, you're missing out! All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Refer your friends and get $20 off each time a friend you invite joins Feravina. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

06.01.2022 Ever wonder what the difference is between these types of viticulture? Are they all just different words to describe more-or-less the same thing? There can actually be significant differences! Organic and Biodynamic are pretty similar, with the latter taking things a bit further in a positive direction. Both reject the use of industrial chemicals in favour of more natural methods of farming, and both have their own certifying organisations throughout the world. Sustai...nable, however, is the word to really watch out for, since there is no real consensus on what it means. Almost all conventional producers, and even some commercial ones, will claim they’re sustainable in one way or another. This makes the word ‘sustainable’ pretty meaningless in this context. In our experience, if a producer is organic/biodynamic they will proudly say so, and if they say they’re just sustainable, then this is a euphemism for conventional viticulture that just isn’t quite as bad as commercial. We all want to drink sustainably made wine, so producers will try to market their wine as such, taking advantage of the ambiguity. So next time you hear a wine is sustainable, ask yourself if it truly is or if it’s just pretending to be. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

06.01.2022 You might think it would just say; fermented grape juice and maybe yeast and 1 or 2 other things. If only that were true In fact more than 80 different additives are allowed in Australian wine by law, with similar numbers allowed in various international wines as well. ... So, if these commercial wines had to have an ingredients label, this is what would be on it: - A slew of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides used in commercial vineyards, residues from which can easily find their way into the finished wine. - Packet yeasts, sometimes genetically modified, along with yeast nutrients used to keep ferments going reliably. - Enzymes, used to break down grape skins, among other things. - Cheap oak barrel alternatives like wood chips and sawdust to get that oak-like flavour in reds. - Artificial colours like Mega Purple to make wines appear to have deeper colour. - Structure adjusters like tartaric acid and powdered tannins. - Fining agents like milk casein, egg albumin and isinglass (slurry made from fish bladders) used to make wines have a brighter, clearer appearance. - Various preservatives, lots and lots of them. Commercial grapes are usually hit with sulphites after being picked, then again after being crushed, then again after fermentation, and one last time before being bottled. It’s a real shame that wines don’t have ingredient labels to show this to wine drinkers everywhere. Our wines, like all other wines, don’t have ingredient labels either, but if they did they would say: Organically/biodynamically grown grapes, minimal sulphites (<50ppm). That’s it! All Feravina wines are natural and meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Make an account and refer your friends to each get a $20-OFF coupon, every time a friend you invite buys one of our wine packs. Feravina.com.au

06.01.2022 The Covid-19 crisis has hit Australia's hospitality industry and its workers especially hard. Not only have all the restaurants, bars, pubs, and cafes been forced to close resulting in all the people who depend on them for a living losing their jobs, but hospitality has been a uniquely bad case for a number of other reasons too. The industry has was already on the ropes after a disastrous summer season plagued by bushfires and the fear of the Coronavirus scared many people... from going out months before the official order came to close all venues. So many hospitality workers lost their jobs or had their hours reduced because of this. As such, waiters and waitresses, chefs, bartenders, hosts, and baristas had been suffering for many months before the lockdowns made things much much worse. Unfortunately, the Jobkeeper and Jobseeker subsidies offered by our government have not reached a large portion of these hospitality workers in desperate need of them because they're either casuals, foreign workers on temporary visas, or both, leaving people desperate, destitute and even hungry and homeless. This is why charities like @tipjarfund are so important right now and why we're supporting them. All the money donated to Tip Jar goes towards organisations helping these poor workers get through this terrible time. For every Feravina case of wine sold, we will be donating $10 to Tip Jar on your behalf. Meaning that not only will you be locking in a 10% Founding Member discount for life, but you will be helping Australia's most vulnerable workers and going into the draw to win some fantastic prizes from Tip Jar that can be found on their website. All the while sipping on delicious, natural, healthier wine! All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! @covid19ead @scarfcommunity @streetsmartaust @frontlinemealsmelb @danivalent See more

05.01.2022 2019 Honorio Rubio 'Tremendus' Honorio Rubio is a winemaker well outside the mainstream of his Spanish home region of Rioja. He is one of the last defenders of a style of wine that time has forgotten called clarete - pale rosé made from a blend of red and white grapes. Being a blend of white Viura and red Garnacha, this wine is an excellent example of the style. Light-bodied, energetic and lively, with aromas of pink grapefruit and wild strawberry. ... This would go great with a vegetarian quiche, fried seafood, or while lying on the beach. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our Red or Mixed packs. All Feravina wines are natural and meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Grab a wine pack today!

04.01.2022 2020 Ari's Wine 'Sparkling' Ari of Ari’s Wine started making wine back in 1985 but only started selling it 30 years later with his son Tony. Based in the Southern Highlands of NSW, these guys are serious about natural wine, making wine without using any electricity, pumps or machinery, and nothing added or taken away whatsoever. This pet-nat sparkling is made with an unorthodox blend of Fiano and Prosecco from the Hilltops region of NSW. The result is cloudy and f...unky and fresh, with aromas of pear, toffee apple and hints of anise. This wine is super easy to drink and made to share with friends as an aperitif but would match perfectly with some crackers topped with cream cheese and salmon roe. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our White or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get a $20 off each every time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au to join now! See more

03.01.2022 2018 Michael Grindl 'Little Buteo' At Michael Gindl’s little Austrian estate, it’s all about closed-circuit biodynamics. This means the winery is completely self-sufficient, with no outside elements used. The livestock they raise work the fields, their manure is used for compost, and even the wine barrels are made out of wood from the neighbouring Acacia forest! Made from Grüner Veltliner, Austria’s main white grape variety, this wine is light-bodied with a gol...den colour and lemony, herbaceous aromas. There’s also a vibrant energy to this wine, with some mineral elements that dance on the tongue. Cold seafood would be perfect with this, as would lighter plant-based dishes. This is one of our current featured wines, available in our White or Mixed packs. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! @lofiwines See more

02.01.2022 This is a common question when ordering wine online. It’s not economical to deliver just one bottle, so wine is generally sold online in packs of 3 or 6 or 12 bottles. But how many bottles is too many for you?! It’s easy enough to go down to the bottle shop and buy a bottle or two because you need them for tonight or tomorrow night. You know you’ll enjoy them right away and you won’t have spent money on something you don’t need. But there is an easy way to work out how much... wine you need a month and go from there. Let’s say you’re a couple, and you enjoy a glass of wine each a day on average. Maybe some days you don’t drink at all, some days you have two or three, but on average you’re at around one a day. This means together you’re drinking around 60 glasses of wine a month. A bottle of wine is 5 glasses, so you’re looking at 12 bottles of wine in a month. So, if you were going to get a 12 pack, you’d get through it in a month, not a year... Buying wine in larger quantities like this also results in you saving money because each bottle costs you less. For example, buying a 12 pack from Feravina costs $20 less than buying 2x 6 packs. Planning ahead might make you think you’re drinking too much, and that may be true for some. However, if your consumption is spaced out your body is perfectly capable of processing small amounts of alcohol. In fact, we as a species have been consuming wine for milenia, certainly longer than we’ve been eating gluten or dairy products. So, next time you want to buy some wine, think ahead and not only will you save money, you might get to experience wines that aren’t available at your local bottle-o! All Feravina wines are natural and meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Keto-Friendly + Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Grab a wine pack today!

02.01.2022 There are two main reasons why natural wines tend to have lower levels of alcohol than conventional and commercial wines. 1. Natural wines are wild-fermented with native yeasts that live on the skins of the grapes. Other wines are often inoculated with packet yeasts that are specifically selected (or sometimes genetically modified) to be efficient, reliable, and consistent. The wild yeasts in natural wine are simply not as efficient in turning sugar into alcohol, meaning t...hey’ll consume the same amount of sugar as the packet yeasts, yet produce less alcohol out of it, resulting in lower alcohol levels. 2. Natural wines cannot contain any additives. For alcohol levels, this means the grapes need to be picked when everything inside them is optimally balanced. The sugar, the acidity, the tannins, the flavours. Other wines have the luxury of the grapes being picked later, because the acidity can always be added in the winery later. This results in higher alcohol levels in these wines compared to natural wines. Bear in mind, the only sure way to pick a lower alcohol wine is to look at the label, and there are some conventional wines made specifically to have lower alcohol, though they don’t achieve this through natural winemaking. This is why at Feravina we have the two-pronged approach of selecting only natural wines while excluding any that have alcohol levels above 13.5%. We chose this limit so we could include delicious, full-bodied reds that take longer than most other wines to ripen, and can’t be found at alcohol levels much lower than this. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Get 10% off for life by joining now and a further $20 off each time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au/join to join now! See more

01.01.2022 Simply put, organic is about not doing ‘bad stuff’ while biodynamic is about not doing ‘bad stuff’ and doing ‘good stuff’ instead. While organic farming might involve not using industrial chemicals and substituting organically certified alternatives, the biodynamic alternative might be nurturing an ecosystem in that eliminates the need for these interventions in the first place. Organic farming is a greener, more sustainable approach. A truly organic farmer avoids syntheti...c pesticides, fertilisers, and other chemicals, instead using natural substitutes like biological pest control and manure-based fertilisers. There are many different certifying bodies that certify organic farms. There are half a dozen such agencies in Australia alone with the ACO (Australian Certified Organic) being the main one. We should be quite proud in Australia, as we have more than half of the organically farmed land in the world! The biodynamic movement predates the organic movement by almost 50 years. It was started by philosopher Rudolph Steiner in the 1920s and was then called ‘anthroposophic agriculture’. Luckily that name didn't stick It goes a step further than organic, turning a farm into a self-sustained ecosystem while enriching the soil. There’s also a spiritual part of biodynamics involving various mineral and plant-based homeopathic preparations, as well as some astrological elements involving phases of the moon. There's no scientific proof that these spiritual elements make a difference, but there's no doubt that biodynamic farming works, producing superior crops even at previously organic farms. Hopefully this has demystified the difference between these two often interchangeably used terms. At Feravina we think both methods of farming are great and all of our wines are organic or biodynamic. All of our wines meet our health-conscious criteria so you can feel great while drinking, and the next day too. Each wine is: Naturally Grown Wild Fermented Sugar-Free Lower Alcohol Minimal Sulphites Vegan Refer your friends and get a $20 off each every time a friend you invite joins our club. Feravina.com.au to join now!