Der Aufstieg des Naturweins [OC]

I had fun looking at how frequently different wine terms came up in the new york times over the years, and was only mildly surprised to see how rapidly natural wine grew in mentions. I used the NYT API to get the data and plotted it in R. I analyzed [it here](https://residualthoughts.substack.com/p/i-get-nervous-sip-the-wine?r=9c2r) if you’re interested!

NYT really going hard on the natty

Nice. Ggplot and orange grape juice ftw

In older days natural wine was a term used to differentiate regular wine from fortified wines that had a lot more alcohol. MD 20/20 and Thunderbird are examples, but there were higher quality ones.

This is really an odd piece of data.

At first glimpse I thought the graph represented sales and almost spit out my Chardonnay

Relative frequency to what? Jesus Christ

Interesting, the only other place I’ve ever seen natural wines referred to in literature or otherwise is the AA Big Book written in the 1930’s. Excerpt from page 31, going through a list of methods alcoholics have tried to stop or moderate their drinking:

“…switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only *natural wines*, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip…”