By Simon Taylor, Stroud Wine Company
One of the big social media trends of 2024 amongst Gen-Zers was rawdogging.
For the uninitiated, this involved taking a long-haul flight to wherever, sitting in your seat and doing absolutely nothing.
No food, drink, reading, talking, music or in-flight movies. Oh, and no bathroom break. Nothing. Just sit staring at the back of the seat in front of you. For eight hours or more.
Absolute madness I hear you cry! Funny thing is, I find ‘Dry January’ just as bewildering as rawdogging. Yep, we’ve all indulged over Christmas and the New Year and yup, cutting down on beige food and the booze is a very good thing. But stopping altogether in January? That’s just rawdogging life and where’s the fun in that?
Here at the Stroud Wine Company our mantra is simple. Drink less, drink better. For many years we’ve been champions of ‘Natural Wine’. Essentially this is a wine made with nothing added to it.
It will start in the vineyard, usually practising organic and Biodynamic principles with no chemicals or spraying.
Once the hand-harvested grapes get into the winery only fermentation with wild, naturally occurring yeasts are allowed and no additives such as tannins, sugar and sulphites are used.
These wines are not mass produced so you won’t find them in supermarkets, but you will find a great selection of all different styles in our stores at Griffin Mill and Withey’s Yard. When you pop in, you’ll see we’ve written tasty tasting notes for all our wines and anything that also has a little red dot in the corner means ‘natural’.
To sum up the entire diet industry in half a sentence, let’s all eat less and move more in January and beyond. But can we also agree that we can enjoy a moderate glass of something really nice at the weekend if the mood takes us? Or we can just stare at the back of a stranger’s head slumped in the seat in front of us in coach class.
I know what I’ll be doing.
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