Crazy Experimental Wines is the personal project of wine writer, judge and winemaker Chris Boiling. Working with growers across Central and Eastern Europe, Chris creates limited-edition wines that explore distinctive grape varieties, vineyard sites and winemaking ideas.
Each release is made in tiny quantities and given its own number within the series. From Georgian skin-contact wines to barrel-aged Hungarian rosé, these are bottles for curious drinkers who enjoy discovering something beyond the familiar.
Chris Boiling has spent years exploring the wine regions of Central and Eastern Europe as a wine writer, judge and winemaker. Along the way he discovered countless grape varieties, vineyard sites and winemaking traditions that rarely receive attention in the UK.
Crazy Experimental Wines grew from a desire to share some of those discoveries. Rather than creating a conventional wine brand, Chris works with growers he knows and respects to produce small-batch wines that explore a particular grape, place or winemaking idea.
The wines are deliberately produced in tiny quantities. Some revisit traditional methods, others take a fresh look at familiar styles, but all are made with the aim of producing wines that are enjoyable to drink as well as interesting to talk about.
From Georgian skin-contact wines made in buried clay qvevri to barrel-aged rosé from Hungary, each release offers a glimpse into a part of the wine world that many drinkers have yet to discover.