The editorial team tasting natural wines around a sunlit wooden cellar table

Founders & tasters at the cellar tasting bench, Vineyard City

Archive Origins & Philosophy

Cataloguing wine with the honesty of a film ledger.

We started Sip Sip Hooray around an unvarnished kitchen table with three bottles of unfiltered pet-nat and a simple question: why do most wine notes read like chemistry papers instead of memories?

Our archive cataloging system approaches natural wine the way cinephiles track films—not with inflated numerical point scores or stiff tasting jargon, but with clean bottle photography, maker origin, and concise one-line tasting impressions that tell you what is actually in your glass.

Every entry in our collection comes from independent low-intervention vignerons who let native yeasts and living soils speak. What began as an intimate team ledger is now open to every drinker looking to document their findings and explore honest bottles.

The Archive in Numbers

A growing ledger of honest bottles

Every bottle is documented with a photo, maker details, origin, and an unfussy one-line tasting note.

Wines catalogued
1,420+

From low-intervention cellar gems to small-batch zero-sulfur pet-nats.

Countries represented
28

Spanning classic European terroirs and exciting emerging low-intervention regions.

Notes written
3,850

Straightforward one-line impressions contributed by our editors and community.

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