Do you have natural wines by the glass?
na-tu-RA-li — four syllables, stress on third.
In a wine bar ('enoteca') or cocktail bar with a sophisticated wine selection when you want natural wine.
'Vini naturali' = natural wines — made with minimal intervention, no added sulphites, wild fermentation. This is a growing movement in Italy. 'Al calice' = by the glass. The natural wine bar scene is thriving in Rome, Milan and Florence.
Avete un'enoteca con naturali?
Do you have a wine bar with naturals?
Asking if the establishment is specifically a natural wine venue
Cosa avete di biodinamico?
What do you have in biodynamic wine?
Biodynamic wine is a step beyond organic — very popular in the Italian natural wine scene
Un orange wine, per favore.
An orange wine, please.
'Orange wine' = white grape wine made with skin contact — an Italian specialty, especially from Friuli
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the birthplace of the orange wine movement. Josko Gravner and Stanko Radikon, winemakers in the Collio area, pioneered skin-contact white wines in the 1980s and inspired a worldwide movement. These amber-coloured wines have complex tannins unusual in white wine.