‘Un-mastering Life: Law, Value and Locality in Natural Wine Ontology’: A chapter by Andrea Pavoni

Andrea Pavoni’s chapter ‘Un-mastering Life: Law, Value and Locality in Natural Wine Ontology’ has been published by Springer in the book Uncorked: Negotiating Science and Belief in the Natural Wine Movement.

Appearing in the first major scholarly collection on Natural Wine, this chapter probes how this growing phenomenon unsettles what is taken for granted about agency, control, trust, and responsibility in the contemporary wine world, teasing out the ethical possibilities that flow from natural wine’s insistence on minimal intervention, fermentation risk, and entanglement with soil, contingency, and microorganisms.​ The argument unfolds through a conversation between critical legal theory, geography, and political ecology, showing how natural wine reconfigures relations among law, land, and more-than-human life. By following these intersecting perspectives, the chapter casts natural wine as a possible laboratory for reimagining ecological futures and the norms that govern them.

The publication is available here.