Sons of Wine, "404 Pet Nat" 2020

Producer Profile: One of the best ways to understand the driving ethos of Farid Yahimi’s Alsatian project ‘Sons of Wine’ is to take him at his word. Here he is on his cellar work: “We do nothing, period. We do the best we can. Vintages are always different. You can see people making wine for 30 years with biodynamic vineyards for a long time having a lot of troubles in the cellar when others are making wine for 2 years with organic vineyards in conversion and everything goes smoothly in the cellar. There is no certainty and cellar work is firstly humility. When it goes wrong, you just take a Kleenex. I might be lucky, but I’m not throwing out a lot of wine every year… I just wait and very often it works out.” You get the sense of the hands-off approach, certainly, but maybe more so you see the ability to be patient. These wines certainly bear the mark of ease, or rather, that they are not forced or gnarly; that they are not imposing or imposed-upon. They really do taste easygoing, som