Natural wine Bristol — a proper guide to the city's best bottles

Natural wine in Bristol — the proper guide from the people who stock it

Looking for natural wine in Bristol? You're in the right city. Bristol has quietly become one of the best places in the UK to drink interesting, low-intervention wine — independent makers, weird grapes, proper people behind the bottles, no supermarket filler. At Natty, we've built our whole shop around it: a tiny shipping container bottle shop in Willway Yard, Bedminster, with same-day delivery across BS1 to BS16. This is our plain-English guide to natural wine in Bristol — what it is, where to find it, what to try first, and how to get a bottle in your hand tonight.

What counts as natural wine?

Quickly, because it's useful. Natural wine is wine made with as little fiddling as possible — organic or biodynamic grapes, wild yeast, no additives, little to no added sulphites. In the glass it tends to taste fresher and more alive than the supermarket stuff, always made by a real person whose name is on the label. There's no UK-wide legal definition yet, which is why it helps to buy from a shop that knows the makers. Every bottle in our wine collection is natural, low-intervention, organic or sustainable — if it isn't, it isn't in the shop.

Why Bristol is a good city for natural wine

Bristol punches above its weight on small-producer drinks — independent bakers, coffee roasters, brewers, and a proper crop of independent bottle shops. Natural wine fits the city's mood: informal, curious, not remotely interested in status. People drink it on the Harbourside, in a Bedminster back garden, with a pizza on a Tuesday. We sit in Willway Yard in Bedminster with a shipping container stuffed with bottles from independent growers in France, Moldova, Uruguay, Austria, Australia and the UK — open Fridays and Saturdays for walk-ins and click & collect, out delivering the rest of the week.

The natural wines we'd point you at first

If you're new to this and want a crash course, pick one bottle from each colour below. Or do what most of our regulars do and mix a six-pack — you get 10% off, and you end up with a week of good drinking.

Natural reds

For a cult natural red, it's Doom Juice Rouge — a Shiraz-Grenache from South Australia that drinks like smashed raspberries and makes every dinner feel less serious. Doom Juice are one of our favourite Aussie outfits, run by hospitality folks, not marketers.

If you want something off the beaten track, La Ventana is an Arinarnoa from the Uruguayan Pampas — peppery, fresh, built for a chill. Other Wines bring in bottles from places most of the UK ignores, like Moldova and Uruguay. The Dóldora is a Saperavi from southern Moldova for £16 that punches three times its weight.

For a proper French natural red, look at our Emile Wines range. The Carambouille 2024 blends six Rhône grapes into something fresh and peppery; the Mon P'tit Pithon Rouge is natural, biodynamic and from Olivier Pithon, a Roussillon legend. Or keep it simple with the Cuvée Z, a proper Côtes du Rhône with zero frills. Browse the full red wine collection for everything else.

Natural whites

Our house white is Guy Allion Sauvignon Blanc — a Loire Sauvignon from Emile's house producer, nothing like the tropical supermarket stuff. For something bolder and aromatic, 5 O'Clock Wines Viognier from the Languedoc is good value and properly ecological. If you like Riesling, Rizzling from Loco Wines is organic, biodynamic and from a family winery in Austria. And if you want something nobody else in Bristol will have, Jumi-Juma is a Chardonnay-Riesling blend from Moldova with a label by a London artist. Full range on the white wine collection page.

Orange and skin-contact wine

Orange wine is white wine made like red — skin contact, a bit of tannin, more texture. If you've never tried it, start with Balido, a Trebbiano–Petit Manseng skin-contact number from Uruguay. Browse the rest of the orange wine collection once you're hooked.

Natural sparkling and pét-nat

For a Sussex-grown pét-nat, Top Cuvée's Good Day Pet Nat is our go-to — natural, sparkling, English, fizzy-orange branding included. Top Cuvée are a London outfit who pivoted out of a restaurant and now run an empire of shops and a wine subscription. For a canned fizz that's properly organic, try Session Fizz or a bottle of PROST!. The full sparkling wine collection lives here.

Snacks, cocktails and what else lives in the shop

Natural wine without a snack is a wasted bottle. Our crisps and deli shelves are stocked with Serious Pig — Pickle Crisps, Sausage Crisps, Snacking Pickles and Giant Corn Scratchings. Olives Et Al Chilli Puffs are the wildcard — sweet chilli rice crackers, dangerously moreish.

If wine isn't tonight's move, we also stock pre-mixed cocktails from Black Lines — Negroni, Paloma, Aperitivo Spritz and an Espresso Martini made with Chase vodka and Origin coffee. Off the booze? The Black Lines Shirley Temple or the low and no-alcohol shelf will sort you.

How to get natural wine delivered in Bristol

Order from the wine collection before 2pm and we'll drop it the same evening anywhere in BS1 to BS16 — Bedminster, Southville, Clifton, Redland, Bishopston, Totterdown, Easton, the lot. £3.50 flat, free over £40. It's a personal delivery, not a courier — your bottles aren't bouncing around a van all day.

Prefer to pick up? The shop is open Fridays and Saturdays in Willway Yard, Bedminster — click & collect is free. Outside Bristol, we ship UK-wide by 2-day courier, with 10% off six bottles.

Quick answers

Where can I buy natural wine in Bristol?

At Natty, Willway Yard, Bedminster — a shipping container bottle shop specialising in natural and low-intervention wine. Same-day delivery across BS1 to BS16, click & collect Fridays and Saturdays, UK-wide shipping the rest of the time. Start with the wine collection.

What is natural wine, exactly?

Wine made from organic or biodynamic grapes, fermented with wild yeast, with little or no added sulphites and no industrial additives. It usually tastes fresher and more alive than conventional wine. If you're new to it, try Doom Juice Rouge for red or Guy Allion Sauvignon Blanc for white.

Is natural wine vegan?

Most of our range is, yes. Traditional wine is often fined with animal products (egg whites, gelatine, fish bladders) — natural makers tend to skip the fining altogether, which is why the wine sometimes looks a bit cloudy. If you need a specific bottle confirmed, email us and we'll tell you straight.

Is natural wine better for you?

It's still wine, so let's not get carried away. But lower sulphites, no additives and hand-farmed grapes do tend to mean fewer day-after headaches for people who react to conventional wine. Your mileage may vary.

Do you deliver natural wine the same day in Bristol?

Yes. Order from the wine collection before 2pm across BS1 to BS16 and we'll drop it to you the same evening. £3.50 flat, free over £40. See the shipping page for the full rundown.