Wines come from vineyards, located in different ecosystems, and tiny terroirs, sometimes the size of a vineyard itself. Wines are made of sunlight and winds, and soils and waters. Hense, a terroir should be allowed to speak in truly natural wine. I never use chemistry in the vineyard, save for a bit of sulfur and copper - maybe once or maximum twice a year. The vineyards are full of different useful insects, like ladybugs and praying mantises, and hundreds of different spiders, etc. These powerful predators hunt tiny little bugs that are damaging the early twigs of grape trees. There is no need for my chemistry when these friends are around.

I just stopped plowing the rows of the vineyard. Instead, grass mowing became an almost daily practice. Rested land develops fungi that create networks under the soil and connect plants with each other, thus creating a living ecosystem of shared resources. 

I don't use drip irrigation, to avoid abnormal development of superficial roots, and let them deeper into humidity, and mingle with minerals. 

The cellar became my home. I live with wines, growing and caring for them every day. My cellar is as unique as an artisan's workplace can be. But it is, in the first place, a large, two-story house for wine.

Manic hygiene of vineyards and cellars, the focus on terroir, rich varietal base, and a "culinary art" take on winemaking are my main weapons as I try to take my natural wines to all-new levels. 

Each year, 10 -15 different wines emerge from my qvevris (underground clay jars). These include natural dry amber whites, reds, and roses that are full of the tastes and aromas of nature.

I make wine and live with the life of wine. routinely focused on growing pleasant, long-living natural wines. Living Wines are not mere candies, they strengthen humans' willingness for life. So I serve to these Life Elixirs.

Because only the Living Wine is an elixir, the only honest path for the winemaker is to be a naturalist. All other ways are just FAST-FOOD businesses where no Life Elixirs are available. And here's the main difference between winemakers and businessmen. I am a winemaker.

Winemaking is a true art for me. It enables self-expression and speaks the truth - just as any other piece of art does! you express your soul and openness to nature when you make wine. The closer you are to nature and the closer to the wine you are, the more daring you are to make crazy, but thoughtful and meaningful experiments. and the truth the wine says is pureness and harmony, depth and character, and richness and beauty. What art does it better!

I would compare wine with music. Because it's an art that words won't explain, and it's an art of emotions, of depth, intensity, and beautiful harmony.

and don't talk to me when I cook perfume!