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For the past 20 years, in Geneva🇨🇭, Emmanuel Heydens and his passionate team have been doing an amazing job promoting natural wine in Switzerland. This year, La Dégustation du Passeur tasting is an event worthy of the history of their wine shops (3 in total in Geneva, Lausanne, and Geneva Eaux-Vives). As usual, the list of winemakers attending is magnificent, hailing from Switzerland and across Europe, and all sharing incredible talent.

Here is what you can look forward to:

• SWITZERLAND: Jordi RENARD, Patrick ADANK, Valentina ANDREI, Château l’évèque, Noé CHRISTINAT, O FAYA FARM. ALSACE: Léo DIRRINGER. CHAMPAGNE: Guillaume SERGENT, Romain HENIN, Antoine BOUVET.
• HAUTE SAVOIE: Damien BASTIAN GODDARD, Domaine de Côtes Rousses. RHÔNE: Étienne SEIGNOVERT, Thierry ALLEMAND. AUVERGNE: Henri CHAUVET. BEAUJOLAIS: Camille LAPIERRE, Sebastien CONGRETEL.
• JURA: Nicolas JACOB, Julien CRINQUAND. BOURGOGNE: Maison VALETTE, Sylvain PATAILLE, Antoine LIENHARDT, Antoine DENOGENT, Romain DEMOOR & Melissa BAZIN, Pierre FENALS, Ludovic BONNARDOT, Thierry MORTET, Chantal TORTOCHOT. LOIRE: Tessa LAROCHE.
• LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLONS: DANJOU-BANESSY, PRIORESS SAINT JEAN DE BEBIAN.
• ITALY: Emidio PEPE, Franco MANDREDI.
• SAKE: Madame Saké BRASSERIES: Brasserie du Salève

Where? At Passeur de Vin Acacias in Geneva (Rue Eugène-Marziano 25 1227 Geneva). When? Friday 18th of November.

Price? Only 30 francs for a guaranteed outstanding experience.

If you are around? This is the tasting for you, highly recommended by Raisin!

Last October, in Kiev (Ukraine), was the grand opening of the Sabotage Wine store! Never heard of it? Well, let us be your guide! If you have never been to Ukraine, you might not know what to expect but one thing is sure: it has a florashing natural wine scene.

Sabotage Wine is a key player in town, they import and distribute natural wine, it is a one of a kind natural wine shop with over 1000 different wines. The shelves are endless, it’s like finding a treasure chest.

Their bar is constantly rotating wines that you can order by the glass as well, and guess what? They even have an app where you can order your wine and have it delivered to your door (often within the hour, if you are in Kiev).

They spend a huge amount of their time building relationships with winemakers around the world, they search, they travel, they shake hands, and they meet almost every winemaker they stock personally. It’s the only way they can be sure to keep the standards of their philosophy, the wines they stock don’t contain sulfites (almost), have minimum intervention, no additives, no pesticides or herbicides and spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts.

Sabotage Wine is a team of 7 people and all of them share their passion and enthusiasm, if you get a chance, speak to Vitaliy while you are there, he is a walking wine encyclopedia!

But that’s not it, this February they will hold their second SuperNatural Wine festival with 100 natural winemakers and more than 3000 visitors are expected. In short: go to Kiev and visit Sabotage Wine!