Real Wine : Free Form White 2017

By: Treve Ring

Supernatural Okanagan Valley, BC

Real Wine

Free Form is a stand-alone non-intervention, organic wine label from Haywire Winery.

This is the most naturalist line from the winery that has broken all preconceptions of what is and can be possible in Okanagan winemaking.

All wines are native fermented in a mix of concrete / amphora / neutral wood before resting on skins for an extended period, with no inputs or outtakes, before bottling unfiltered, without SO2.

Even the packaging breaks free from form. Free Form labels are made of eco-friendly stone paper: ground stones turned into a fine powder, which is then rolled to thinness and bound with a small amount of resin. The process uses no water and no paper.

90/100Free Form White 2017Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

Written By: TR

Treve Ring

Treve Ring is a wine writer and editor, judge and speaker, and perpetual traveller. She is based on Vancouver Island, Canada, though is most often found on a plane or in a vineyard. After completing her Art History degree with Distinction from the University of Victoria and being exposed to the world of wine business at Christie’s in London, England, she switched gears, leaving the realm of art for the world of wine. She is a certified sommelier, WSET diploma holder, Champagne Master, Wine Scholar Guild instructor, and certified Sherry instructor, and has been presenting on wine internationally since co-founding Cru Consultancy, a boutique wine education and consultation company, in 2012. She is the current Chair of the Vancouver Island Sommelier Association.