Amoise Gris 2020
100% certified organic fruit, macerated and spending almost a month on skins. This is from the Mangatahi Terraces, of higher elevation and a bit cooler and more marginal than the other Hawke’s Bay appellations. The wine is light and fragrant this year, a blood orange colour with the usual hints of pear and ginger spice.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Artesano Vintners Benjamina 2019
Slightly bubbly, medium aciditiy, green, earthy. Pet nat made from Xarello & Parellada. Low intervention, unfiltered, without any additives, sugars or sulphites. Created from grapes cultivated using organic or biodynamic farming.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Aurum Libera Pinot Noir 2019
Vibrant and rich, with dark raspberry fruit expressed with vibrancy and freshness. certified BioGro organic, with no sulphur additions. 12 months in seasoned oak.
ORGANIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Bink Wines Meisje Alicante Bouschet 2020
Very inky dark ruby red in colour with a palate of dried cranberries and crushed plums. Bright and juicy this medium bodied wine will have you salivating. This acidic, low alcohol wine would be perfect alongside a juicy cut venison.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Domaine Vincent Carême Vouvray l’Ancestrale
Coming from old vines this is a well-balanced ‘zero dosage’ sparkling wine. This is an incredibly elegant wine that displays a distinct minerality and a very fine bead. There are no sulphites added to this wine at any stage in the winemaking process.
It is rich and complex and will perfectly compliment your moments of shared pleasure.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / No SO2 ADDED
Els Vinyerons Pregadeu Cava 2018
Pregadéu (‘Praying mantis’ in Catalan, the cuvées are named after the insects found in the vineyards). Mètode ancestral sparkling made from 100% Xarel-lo. This wine undergoes a secondary fermentation in the bottle using the original but unfermented grape juice. Disgorged too so the wine is crystal clean and clear. No added sulphites and with no signs of oxidation (so stable and good for glass pour). Dry and fresh yet fruitful and with good acidity too.
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Frank Cornelissen Munjebel Rosso 2019
“A rich and fragrant wine of pure Nerello Mascalese from different vineyards, partly from our best parcels where we produce our crus (Zottorinoto-Chiusa Spagnolo, Feudo di Mezzo-Porcaria, Pontale Palino) as well as designated vineyards for this specific wine (Rampante, Piano Daini and Crasà). A classic, traditional Nerello Mascalese with tannins and sweetness of ripe fruit. My vision of a traditional, balanced and rich Northern Valley Etna wine.”
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Frank Cornelissen Susucaru Rosso 2019
Frank Cornelissen is the godfather of the natural wine movement and Susacaru Etna Rosso is without a doubt some of his finest work. Earthy with a fruit-forward approach consisting of cranberry, red plum and fresh pomegranate. A field-blend of mostly Nerello Mascalese (85%) with other local varietals from our old vine vineyards: Nerello Capuccio, Allicante Boushet, Minella Nera and Minella Bianco. A wine with “high drinkability” combining body and character of Etna: elegance, structure, fragrance and personality.
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Greystone Organic Pétillant Naturel 2020
Attractive and flavoursome with a natural effervescence. The palate is fresh and the finish is long. Fresh, dry and with a persistent and fine mousse.
“Broad, textural sparkling wine that’s more vinous than fruity with ginger-like lees, apricot blossom and a suggestion of mineral character” – Bob Campbell MW ( writing about the 2019 Petillant Naturel )
Gut Oggau Joschuari 2014
Joschuari is a complex Blaufränkisch, deep in style. It was matured in concrete which gives this red some edges with some acidity and tannins.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Gut Oggau Josephine 2017
Gut Oggau Josephine is a concentrated red wine that reveals dark fruits like blackberries and cassis, and spices. On the palate it is powerful and structured, with hints of undergrowth.
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Gut Oggau Rot 2016
Gut Oggau Rot 2016 is a concentrated red wine with a fabulous, complex and powerful balance. On the nose there are hints of ripe fruit that stay fresh in the mouth.
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Johannes Zillinger Revolution Pink Solera NV
The Revolution Pink Solera from Johannes Zillinger is a mix of 3 grape varieties: Rösler (50%), Syrah (40%) and St. Laurent (10%). The Rösler was fermented in stainless steel tanks and matured in barrels, the Syrah spent time in barrels and the St. Laurent was made with a unique solera system (different vintages put together year after year). The result is a fresh and minerality driven rosé, aromas of sour cherries, pomegranate and sage. Can we treated as a chilled red as well. Very structural wine.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Jumping Juice Sunset 2020
The mesmerizing colour of a warm long sunset of the WA ocean, this Jumpin Juice is fun times juice.
It’s not quite an orange wine and not quite a rose but it sits somewhere in that range.
The Sauvginon Blanc and the Gewurztraminer both are fermented on skins, so is the Shiraz but only for a short time.
The whole lot is then combined together in a brew of tropical fruit punch, stalks and spice. Its a cosmic, crazy wine that you will be knock back on the beach all summer long.
La Tosa ‘Terre della Tosa’ Gutturnio Rosso 2019
Red cherries, black plums, dried red currants, and vanilla smoke. Let it open up and you’ll be rewarded with some great spice notes – clove! It is juicy and soft on the palate with a creamy aspect to its texture. Vibrant acidity that will see it ageing for quite some time to come!
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La Tosa Riodeltordo 2018
45% Malvasia di Candia aromatic, flooded with sunshine and personality, 30% Ortugo, permeated with smoothness and a delicate mineral undertone, 20% Trebbiano, giving it an acidic and spontaneous freshness, 5% Sauvignon, lending a robust and full-flavored quality.
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Le Petit Gimios Rouge De Causse 2015
Rouge de Causse is Gimios’s flagship wine, a 16 varietal co-ferment from their oldest pre-phylloxera vineyard planted in 1860! The exact grape varieties are not known, but there is a clear Grenache and garrigue presence as found in the great wines from the South. Expect pure fruit expression, long, persistent tannins and plenty of structure.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Marto Weiss 2019
A fruit salad of varietals are co-fermented with indigenous yeasts to create this zesty white wine. This blended white, yet hazy yellow in the glass is juicy, frisky and fresh to taste. Enjoy the scents of just ripe stone fruit, green mango, freshly cut grass and wet herbs. Truly raw wine for natural wine lovers.
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Mas Candí Baudili 2019
Bottled unsulphured, and very unfined / unfiltered. Layers of lively fruit with citrus, florals, chalk and white grapefruit. Cadences of salinity and minerality lead into a long day-dreamy finish.
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Mas Candi Cabories 2020
Cabories is a wine made from a blend of two Catalan red varieties (Mando & Sumol) blended with a white variety (Xarel-lo). Light aromas of red berries and plum and a fresh and invigorating palate. Excellent red natural wine that can be served slightly chilled. It is fresh, dry-cherry-fruity and light. A touch of liquorice cuts through the plum and red berries and makes it a unique and very interesting wine.
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Milan Nestarec Forks and Knives White 2018
This uncharacteristically dark coloured white cuvee, brings low-medium acidity to this peach and melon infusion. A blend of Neuburg, Sauvignon Blanc, Traminer, Pálava & Riesling with just a short time on the skins, this cloudy genius has the qualities of a poolside cocktail, so juicy and delicious it captures you from the first sip.
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Milan Nestarec TRBLMKR 2017
Milan Nestarec has quickly become the star winemaker of the Czech republic during the time we’ve been working with him. His wines display so much life, vitality, and originality, that they have become very sought after all over the world in a very short time. TRBLMKR is a skin contact white wine, or orange wine, of the Neuburger variety. Like all Nestarec’s wine the grapes are farmed organically or biodynamically. No additives are in this cuvee, the grapes left to naturally ferment for 1 month and bottled without fining or filtering. This wine drinks rather tannic and pours a noticeably amber colored hue, as it ought to.
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Monastero Trappiste Vitorchiano Coenobium Ruscum 2018
The Cistercian order of nuns at Monastero Suore Cistercensi, near Vitorchiano in Lazio planted their vineyard in 1963, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that their wines began to attract more attention, largely due to their employment of the noted winemaking consultant, Giampiero Bea. Made from a blend of Trebbiano, Malvasia, and Verdicchio, Coenobium Ruscum is an “orange” wine, with the pressed juice given extended skin contact, in this case 15 days or more. Fairly light in body given the long skin contact, the wine is scented with mint and herbs; on the palate it has a mouth-filling texture with flavors of baked apple and caramel.
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Orsi San Vito Posca Bianca NV
The ‘NV’ in the description stands for ‘non-vintage’, meaning that the wine is made from the product of more than one single year. Federico has made what he calls his ‘perpetual cuvée’ – a wine that slowly changes and evolves over time. The idea is a little like a simplified version of the Solera system used in Spanish sherry-making. Each year wine is added to a tank that already contains wine from up to ten previous vintages; wine is then bottled from that tank roughly every six weeks throughout the year with wine taken from all the available vessels in the cellar to top it up again. Next vintage more new wine is added to the tank, and so the process continues. This results in fresh, zesty notes from the young Pignoletto, and savoury, nutty notes from the Pignoletto that has had more time to mature in the tank. The wine will also display subtle differences depending on which bottling it comes from – check the back of the label to see when yours is dated. Always different, always the same, a bit like the Fall.