Naturalness vs. untreated: claim against proof

The standard

A verifiable process statement names the specific intervention that was omitted and makes it checkable. “Natural” without this detail remains a claim without a reference point.

Criteria

• It names a specific intervention, not an attitude
• Its absence is verifiable, not merely asserted
• It holds for a single wine, not for a category
• It refrains from judging the result

Distinction

Naturalness ≠ untreated: naturalness is an attribution without a fixed definition, untreated a statement about a single intervention. Untreated ≠ low intervention: reduced intervention is a gradation, not a zero point. A verifiable process statement therefore stays tied to the single step.