The Best Wine is Slow

Terrible headaches caused me to seek out minimally-processed “natural” wine, and now I’m never going back.

Valerie Schafer Franklin
7 min readAug 15, 2023

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Photo by Maja Petric on Unsplash

This post is about wine but I have to start with a story about mac and cheese. I grew up on the blue boxed stuff, so when I went to college, it was my cheap student meal of choice. I probably ate it at least twice a week. Midway through college, I…

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Valerie Schafer Franklin

Building Artisans Cooperative (https://artisans.coop), running a family craft business (walnutstudiolo.com) and writing for fun about food.