80% Grenache/20% Aubun. Aubun is a rather obsure local variety in the Ventoux that brings freshness to the Grenache base. Astrancia is part of Bellivière's second line of wines, Les Arches de Bellivière, created to give them some flexibility amidst a long run of difficult Loire vintages. The vines...

Mourvedre (69%), Counoise (16%), and Grenache (15%). The Mourvedre was picked early in the Caldor fire saga, and was lightly pressed at Cedarville Vineyard and fermented in tank as Hank and Caro had been evacuated and had no access to their property (or power!). After the danger had passed, a week...

100% Hand-Harvested Listán Negro. 25% saignée rosé from the classic Listán Negro vinification, the rest is vinified as a traditional Rosé, cold macerated for 12 hours, and fermented with native yeasts. Bright pink, dry, and refreshing, with red fruit flavors and a hint of amaro on the finish,...

100% Cabernet Franc. Raffault uses 50% certified-organic estate fruit (from sandy, gravelly, flat parcels along the Vienne) and sources the other 50% from a neighboring grower in conversion to organic farming. All of the wine is made from hand-harvested fruit in the Raffault cellar. Half of the...

100% Garnacha from Correla in Navarra. Made by the traditional saignée method in stainless steel. Fresh and lively, with enough acidity and length to make it an extraordinary value. 2022 was a very warm vintage, grapes were harvested earlier than ever to preserve freshness....

100% Gamay. From Jean-Paul Brun’s organically farmed, old vines on clay-limestone soils in the hills of Charnay in the southern Beaujolais. The bunches are hand-harvested and directly pressed with no maceration. The juice is fermented in tank with native yeasts. The wine goes through malolactic...

One third of the fruit is saignées from the Bourgogne Rouge, one third is a quick maceration of villages and 1er cru reds, and the last third comes from the direct press juice of Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Pinot Noir. All the different musts are barrel-fermented separately (in barrels 10-13 years old...

100% Cabernet Franc. The fruit for the rosé comes from estate parcels of flinty alluvial soils mainly. The vines are on the younger side.The farming is certified-organic. All vineyard work, including harvest, is by hand. The whole clusters are gently pressed into unlined cement vats. Fermentation...

100% Ciliegiolo from the Arezzo area, from a lower, more productive part of their vineyards. Direct press. All stainless steel; partial malolactic. Light color, but not too light. Fresh red berries and usually an intriguing herbal streak. Certified organic.

50% Montepulciano, 50% Sangiovese from DeAngelis’ vineyards in the province of Ascoli Piceno. The juice is immediately drained after crushing and malolactic is avoided, allowing for a light-colored and zippy rosato with lots of citrus notes.  Certified organic.

100% Lagrein. From the Mayrs' 40-to-90-year-old Lagrein vines around the winery. The grapes are farmed organically and harvested by hand. The rosato is a 50/50 combination of direct-press and saignée juice, fermented in tank with a pied de cuve made with native yeasts. The wine is aged in 20-...

100% Gaglioppo from massale selection. This parcel—Vigna Fego— has clay/marl soils and is right on the Ionian Sea. Grapes are crushed/destemmed; after 12 hours maceration in stainless steel, the juice is not pressed, but drained by gravity. Aged in stainless steel and released late. Beautiful brick...

100% Pinot Noir. From the certified-organic estate parcel Rouillon. 

Cabernet Sauvignon (80%), Sauvignon Blanc (20%) from the Renaissance Vineyard in North Yuba, CA. The Sauvignon Blanc was harvested first and foot-crushed, with the Cabernet Sauvignon being direct-pressed onto the skins and stems of the Sauvignon Blanc. The must soaks for a few days until...

60% Tempranillo and 40% Garnach blended from multiple parcels. Vinified seperately in order to get a fresh, and “fluid” wine. A mix of saignee and direct press.

50% Grenache 50% Cinsault. Direct press, stainless steel tank fermented. Certified Organic, Practicing Vegan. A medium-pale rose with zesty fresh strawberries in the nose, a round & dynamic mouthfeel and lasting, refreshing red fruits through the finish. Essentially, the perfect bistro wine.

11% alc., 15g/l RS. 100% Fruhburgunder (an early-ripening variant of Pinot Noir).  Bottled at four bars of pressure, unfiltered and unfined with zero added sulfur. Certified organic and vegan. The wine feels fantastic in the mouth, simultaneously creamy and refreshing. The wine drinks essentially...

90% Tintore di Tramonti, 10% Moscio in the mountain terroir of inland Amalfi Coast. 0.3 hectares of old pergolas, ungrafted, between 450 and 600m.  Harvest was early October.  Made in stainless steel. Despite its darker color, it is tart, refreshing, and saline. Certified Organic.

95% Parpato, 5% Catarratto, facing north, at 80m above sea level.  The vines are planted ad alberello (bush vines), 40 years old. Harvest was on August 24 and 30, 2019, at yields of 4,500kg/ha (31 hl/ha).  The first part was whole-cluster pressed and vinified without skin contact.  The second part...

80% Sangiovese, 20% Canaiolo from 3km outside Siena.  Each variety was separately destemmed and crushed.  After 4 hours of maceration, pink juice was bled off of each tank and a blend was made. This is textural, medium-deep in color, and extremely Tuscan.  3,000 bottles made.  Certified organic.

100% Montepulciano. Praesidium's iconic Cerasuolo comes from four different northeast-facing parcels of Montepulciano, planted in 1965, 1973, 1995, and 2006. Harvested at red-wine ripeness, maceration for 4 days. Long aging in stainless steel.  The Cerasuolo is either a light red or a dark rosè,...

70% Zinfandel, 20% Pinot Gris, 10 % Alicante Bouchet - Organically farmed and hand harvested fruit. The grapes were direct-pressed and fermented with native yeasts in a combination of stainless steel and concrete. 12.7% abv.

80% Cinsault/20% Syrah. From certified-organic estate vines just northwest of the ancient city of Nîmes and just south of the Cévennes mountain range. The vines range from 10-30 years old, are planted on varying clay-limestone soils and have a generally eastern exposure. The terrain is flat to...

A blend of Grenache Gris and Grenache Noir from Rolling Vines Vineyard and Couteaux de Clair Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley. Both sites are organically farmed and hand-harvested. The grapes were whole-cluster pressed to stainless steel tank and neutral barrique for fermentation with native...

100% Grenache Gris from Gibson Ranch in McDowell Valley (Mendocino), where some of the Grenache vines are over 110-years old. The color varies each year depending on the canopy of the vines throughout the growing season. This year the grapes were footstomped and left on the skins for 24 hours...