Vin Méthode Nature is the official French term whose direct English translation is Natural Wine Method (wine made naturally). Vin Méthode Nature denotes a wine made from certified organic or certified Biodynamic grapes (organic certification being a baseline for the latter), hand picked, and fermented with ambient (indigenous) yeasts. Up to 30mg per litre of sulphur dioxide is permitted for wines of any style but its addition must be after alcoholic fermentation ceases and whose presence must be signalled on the label. Heavy-handed winemaking practices are not permitted such as flash pasteurization, reverse osmosis, thermovinification and cross-flow filtration. 

The Vin Méthode Nature category was established in October 2019 (with a trial period of 36 months) and was approved by the Direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes (DGCCRF) or General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control, the Ministère de l’agriculture et de l’Alimentation or France’s Ministry of Agriculture, and the Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO).

Wines

Vin méthode nature sans sulfites ajoutés: Natural wine made without added sulfites.

Vin méthode nature avec moins de 30 mg/l de sulfites ajoutés: Natural wine made with a maximum 30 mg/l sulfites added after alcoholic fermentation ceased.