Coturri is a wine estate in California.

Owner: Founded in the 1960s by Tony Coturri, one of the pioneers of organic wine-growing and natural winemaking in California. I visited the estate (in 1993, when I was working with Walter Schug) in Carneros) and one of the wines Tony gave me to taste, a no added sulfites Zinfandel from barrel was a revelation, a natural wine (although at that time the ‘natural wine’ moniker had yet to really have evolved.

White wines

Chardonnay, Grebennikoff Vineyard: Grapes from Nick Greben’s Grebennikoff vineyard in the Sonoma Valley AVA.

Bibliography

Isabelle Legeron MW, Natural Wine, An introduction to organic and biodynamic wines grown naturally (2014, Cico Books, London & New York).