Lowest SO2
0 mg/l
The lowest total sulphur in the range, from the analysis. The legal ceiling is 150 to 200. We publish the figure on 126 wines.
Low intervention and sustainable wine, evidenced
Every claim on the label, backed by the paperwork.
Low intervention is what natural really means: a light hand in the cellar, and we prove it. Farming, yeast, total sulphur in milligrams, fining, filtration, vegan status and bottle weight, published on every bottle. No other UK merchant shows their working.
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The evidence layer
What we publish that nobody else will.
Certified
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Lines certified organic or biodynamic, named against the body, never claimed without a document.
Vegan
0
Confirmed vegan on the producer's own sheet. Where a wine is not, or has not said, we show that too.
Low intervention
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Wines made with a light hand in the cellar, judged on yeast, sulphur and fining, not on a word. Every one of them names the agents that touched it.
In stock now
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Every line live from our own warehouse. If it is on the site, it is on the shelf.
Anatomy of a signature
Read the mark.
Every wine draws its own, and each line on it is a fact you can check. Here is Coyam Organic, decoded. Scroll.
Total SO2
74 mg/l
The outer sweep. Short and green is low sulphur, longer and amber is higher.
Farming
Certified organic
The inner ring closes only when a wine is certified.
Its own bearing
Unique to this bottle
The needle points a different way for every wine. A broken compass never settles.
Bottle glass
705 g
The weight of the outer ring tracks the weight of the glass. A quiet sustainability tell.
Each mark drawn from its own data
The Evidence Signatures
Low intervention
Nothing added
Low intervention
Nothing added
Low intervention
Built for a basket
Mixed cases, evidenced
Start Here
6 bottles
Approachable, nothing challenging, and a gentle way in.
£95
Cloudy and Wild
6 bottles
For the converted. Low intervention, plenty of texture, nothing tidy.
£135
Nothing Added
6 bottles
No added sulphur throughout, every bottle evidenced.
£150
Orange Six
6 bottles
The category gateway. Six skin contact wines, light to wild.
£140
The Spanish Case
6 bottles
Our strength. Gredos, Canarias, Galicia, sourced direct.
£120
Certified Sustainable
6 bottles
South Africa led, IPW and WIETA evidenced. Nobody else offers this.
£110
Why us
Evidence. Availability. Value.
Evidence
Every bottle carries its certification data, high on the page, not buried. Where we do not hold a figure we say Not declared, plainly. Consistent honesty is what makes the declared numbers worth trusting.
Availability
Stock is held in our own temperature managed warehouse and shown live. You will never add a bottle and find it gone. If it is here, it is on the shelf.
Value
A genuinely certified range that starts below where the specialists begin. Natural and sustainable wine should not only be a luxury.
In plain terms
What this shop is
Broken Compass is a UK online wine merchant specialising in low intervention, natural, organic, biodynamic and certified sustainable wine. We hold our own stock in our own temperature managed warehouse in North Yorkshire, we ship across mainland Britain with next day despatch, and delivery is free over £99.
What separates us from every other UK merchant in this category is not the range, it is the record. Each wine publishes its farming and who certified it, its total SO2 in milligrams per litre, whether it fermented on its own yeasts, what it was fined with, whether it was filtered, its vegan status and the weight of its glass. Where a producer has not told us, the page says Not declared rather than guessing, and the wine is never promoted a tier on a gap in the data. The rules are written down in full on the Standard, the whole range is downloadable as data, and what those figures add up to across the range is on the numbers page.
Where can I buy natural and low intervention wine online in the UK?
From Broken Compass, and from a handful of good specialists. What you can do here that you cannot do elsewhere is check the claim before you buy: filter to wine at or under 50 milligrams per litre total sulphur and see the actual declared figure on each bottle, rather than taking the word low on trust.
Which UK wine merchant publishes sulphite levels per bottle?
Broken Compass does. Every wine where the producer or supplier has declared a figure shows it in milligrams per litre on the product page, in the full data table and in the machine readable record. No other UK retailer publishes this per bottle.
Is organic wine the same as natural wine?
No. Organic is a legally protected farming certification and it says nothing about what happened in the cellar. Natural is a cellar claim with no legal definition at all. Broken Compass grades the two separately and never lets one stand in for the other.
What is the Broken Compass Standard?
Two axes. Farming decides whether a wine reaches the shop: certified organic, certified biodynamic, certified sustainable, or practising organic alongside sustainable practice. Making decides what it can be called: Zero Zero, Natural, Low intervention, Sustainable or Classically made. Any undeclared gate caps a wine at Low intervention.
The Standard in full · Natural, organic, biodynamic and sustainable explained · The numbers behind the range