24/08/2026
H E L I O C E N T R I C.
A new wine.
Named for the idea that changed our understanding of the world: the sun, rather than us, at the centre.
And for Galileo Galilei — who stood by what he could see and measure, even when it contradicted what he was told to believe.
Eppur si muove.
And yet it moves.
There is something of that in natural wine too. A quiet resistance to convention. To adding, correcting, manufacturing and controlling.
The vines are PIWI — Sauvignac, Cab Noir and Cab Blanc — bred to resist disease and grown with zero pesticides or herbicides. The farm is organic. The grapes are hand-picked and the wine is made with nothing added, nothing removed. No sulphites, fining, filtration or other interventions.
Just vine, soil, water, sunlight and wild fermentation.
And so we wanted the label to tell the same story.
It is a cyanotype — one of the earliest forms of photography, made simply by exposing light-sensitive material to the sun. The image is formed by light itself, captured in its most elemental form.
Sunlight captured on paper.
Sunlight captured in glass.
The most rudimentary form of photography, paired with the most unadorned form of winemaking.
Two ways of capturing the same thing.
Heliocentric.
Charlotte Cooper
Kristina Chan
