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Foradori

Foradori - Nosiola IGT Vigneti delle Dolomiti "Fontanasanta"
Nosiola from Trentino, Italy

100% Nosiola. Foradori works 2 hectares of this ancient local variety in the Fontanasanta vineyard at about 400 meters above the city of Trento, a few miles down valley from the Foradori estate in Mezzolombardo. The vines are on clay-limestone soils, lower on the hills than the Manzoni Bianco vines...

Biodynamic
DB0180-20

Foradori - Teroldego IGT Vigneti delle Dolomiti "Morei Cilindrica"
Teroldego from Trentino, Italy

100% Teroldego. Local dialect for "dark", "Morei" is a warmer, stonier 2.5 hectares within the whole Foradori vineyard around the winery on the Campo Rotaliano plateau in the foothills of the Dolomites. Elisabetta planted the vines in guyot from massale cuttings in 1984. The farming is certified-...

Biodynamic
DB8737-19

Foradori - IGT Vigneti delle Dolomiti "Lezèr"
Teroldego from Trentino, Italy

70% Teroldego/15% Schiava/10% Lagrein/5% Merlot. Lezèr ("light" in local dialect) was a new wine born of the challenging 2017 vintage, when Foradori's Teroldego crop was roughed up by a summer hailstorm. The remains were turned into this short-maceration red wine, named for its light color and body...

Biodynamic
DB8734-21

Foradori - Teroldego IGT Vigneti delle Dolomiti "Morei"
Teroldego from Trentino, Italy

Biodynamic
DB0356-20

Clos Saron

Clos Saron - Pinot Noir "Home Vineyard"
Pinot Noir from California, United States

From Gideon and Saron's two and a half-acre vineyard, planted on a gentle, well-drained, north-east facing slope at 1500-1600 feet altitude in yellowish clay-loam topsoil on fractured granite and volcanic ash subsoil, sprinkled with fragments of granitic rocks and quartz. 100% whole cluster, aged...

Organic
DB0290-17

Clos Saron - Rosé "Tickled Pink"
from California, United States

DB0288-17

Clos Saron - "Cuvee Mysterieuse"
Red blend (mostly Syrah) from California, United States

DB0286-19

Clos Saron - "Carte Blanche"
White Blend from California, United States
Organic
DB0289-20

Clos Saron - Syrah "Stone Soup"
Syrah from California, United States
Biodynamic
DB0759-17

Clos Saron - Pinot Noir Home Vineyard "Old Block"
Pinot Noir from California, United States

From the pre Clos Saron half-acre section of the Home Vineyard, originally planted in 1979. The vineyard sits on an east-facing gentle slope at 1550-1600 ft elevation. This cuvée is only produced in years when Gideon and Saron happen to harvest a full barrel worth of grapes in one pass through the...

DB0293-14

Clos Saron - Pinot Noir "Home Vineyard"
Pinot Noir from California, United States

Organic
DB0290-18

Edmunds St. John

Edmunds St. John - Rosé Bone Jolly
Gamay from California, United States

Gamay (67%) from Barsotti Vineyard, Syrah (33%) from Fenaughty Vineyard. These are both high elevation (2,800-3,000 ft) vineyard sites near Placerville in El Dorado County. The 2021 vintage brought considerable challenges from the Caldor fire that broke out in mid-August. Out of abundant caution,...

DB6588-21

Edmunds St. John - "Bone Jolly"
Gamay from California, United States

100% Gamay from Barsotti Ranch - a 3,000 ft elevation site, located between Placerville and Camino in the Sierra Foothills. The soils at Barsotti are primarily sandy, decomposed granite, being very well suited for Gamay. The fruit was de-stemmed into half-ton fermenters and is gently punched down...

DB2624-19

Edmunds St. John - "El Jaléo" Shake Ridge Ranch Amador County
Red blend from California, United States
Organic
DB6743-18

La Clarine Farm

La Clarine Farm - Syrah Sumu Kaw Vineyard Sierra Foothills
Syrah from California, United States

Sumu Kaw is an exemplary Syrah vineyard. The elements of elevation (3000 feet), location (in the middle of a pine forest), exposition (ridge-top) and soil composition (deep volcanic loam) come together here in a nearly perfect combination. With thoughtful farming and careful treatment in the cellar...

DB7831-19

La Clarine Farm - Mourvèdre Sierra Foothills
Mourvèdre from California, United States

Mourvèdre from two high-elevation vineyards in the Sierra Foothills - Cedarville and Sumu Kaw. Hank Beckmeyer knows these sites well and produces outstanding single vineyard wines from both. The fruit was foot crushed and whole cluster fermented in open top tanks, and aged in a combination of tanks...

Organic
DB3981-20

La Clarine Farm - Tannat/Grenache "Angle of Repose"
Tannat from California, United States
Organic
DB3660-20

La Clarine Farm - Albariño Sierra Foothills
Albariño from California, United States
Organic
DB5106-21

La Clarine Farm - Viognier Sierra Foothills
Viognier from California, United States
Organic
DB9189-20

La Clarine Farm - Gamay
Gamay from California, United States
Organic
DB3662-20

La Clarine Farm - Tempranillo La Paciencia
Tempranillo from California, United States
Organic
DB3167-17

La Clarine Farm - Rosé "Alors!" Sierra Foothills
from California, United States
Organic
DB5107-20

La Onda

La Onda - Cinsault/Carignan 'Marea en Flor'
Cinsault from California, United States

Cinsault~Carignan from Preston Vineyards in the Dry Creek Valley AVA of Sonoma County. This organically farmed site is noteworthy for it's 85+ year-old Carignan (and Zin!) plantings on well draining, gravelly soils. The Cinsault block dates to the mid to late 1980's. The fruit is foot stomped and...

Organic
DB9205-19

La Onda - Syrah/Cabernet Sauvignon "La Mala"
Red Bordeaux Blend from California, United States

Syrah (50%), Cabernet Sauvignon (50%) from two different slopes at Renaissance Vineyard in North Yuba. These low-yielding vines are own-rooted and 40+ years old, all farming is organic, no till, and dry farmed. The fruit was foot stomped and fermented with stems, then matured in used barrels for 36...

DB3836-16

La Onda - Red Blend "El Colo"
Grenache from California, United States
Organic
DB5952-19

La Onda - Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot "Aguafiestas"
Red Bordeaux Blend from California, United States

Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from Smith Vineyard in Grass Valley, Sierra Foothills. This is an organic, dry-farmed site, with 40+ year old own-rooted vines, planted on granitic soils at 2,500 ft elevation. Dani has been farming this site since 2019. This Cabernet dominant co-ferment was built from...

DB3652-19

La Onda - Syrah 'Soledad' North Yuba
Syrah from California, United States

100% Syrah from the rocky, high-elevation granite slopes of Renaissance Vineyard in North Yuba. These low-yielding vines are own-rooted and 40+ years old, all farming is organic, no till, and dry farmed. The fruit was foot stomped and fermented with stems, then matured in used barrels for 30 months...

Organic
DB9204-17

La Onda - Cabernet Sauvignon "Blanc de Tinto" Renaissance Vineyard
Cabernet Sauvignon from California, United States
Biodynamic
DB5183-18

La Onda - Pais/Cabernet "Tinto Americano"
Grenache from California, United States

País~Cabernet - This wine combines País and Cabernet grapes, planted in the early 1980's in different parts of the Sierra Foothills. This is the only La Onda wine with grapes blended from two separate vineyards and it's notable that both of these vineyards have been farmed organically since their...

Organic
DB3359-19

La Onda - White Blend "Amor Amarillo"
Semillon from California, United States

Semillon~Sauvignon Blanc from Renaissance Vineyard in North Yuba. The Semillon sits directly above the Sauvignon Blanc on the same slope at Renaissance. The vines are over 40 years old, own-rooted and dry farmed. The fruit was harvested in a number of passes using the same process as Aguafiestas,...

Organic
DB5953-18

Porter Creek Vineyards

Porter Creek Vineyards - Zinfandel "Old Vine" Sonoma County
Zinfandel from California, United States
91 IWC
DB7113-19

Porter Creek Vineyards - Pinot Noir "Fiona Hill"
Pinot Noir from California, United States
Biodynamic
DB7108-18

Porter Creek Vineyards - Rosé "Old Vine"
Zinfandel from California, United States
Biodynamic
DB6052-21

Porter Creek Vineyards - Pinot Noir Estate Russian River
Pinot Noir from California, United States
Biodynamic
DB7110-19

Porter Creek Vineyards - Carignane "Old Vine", Mendocino
Carignan from California, United States

The fruit comes from an organic, dry-farmed, head-trained vineyard in Hopland that was planted in 1939. 100% destemmed and fermented with native yeasts for 2-3 days in old French oak barrels up to 8 years old. Aged 11 months in 50% 3800L wooden tank and 50% in small barrels (228L). About 800 cases...

Biodynamic
DB7739-18

Porter Creek Vineyards - Chardonnay Russian River
Chardonnay from California, United States
Biodynamic
DB0233-19

Porter Creek Vineyards - Chardonnay "George's Hill" Russian River
Chardonnay from California, United States
Biodynamic
DB7062-19

Clos de la Roilette

Clos de la Roilette - Fleurie "Cuvée Christie"
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. "Cuvée Christie" is an exception among Roilette estate wines in a few ways. It is the newest bottling, the first vintage having been in 1999. The vines are "young" for Roilette, mainly in the 30-40-year range. They are not part of the original Clos de la Roilette vineyard and thus, more...

Sustainable
DB0556-21

Clos de la Roilette - Fleurie "Cuvée Tardive"
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. From the oldest vines,which are from 80 years on up, on heavy clay soils with relatively little granite and quite a lot of the iron-like mineral manganese. "Tardive" does not mean that the harvest is late, as is commonly believed, but rather is a reference to the wine's ability and need...

Sustainable
DB0008-21

Clos de la Roilette - Fleurie
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. From vines around 40 years old and up, on heavy clay soils with relatively little granite and quite a lot of the iron-like mineral manganese. The farming is sustainable or lutte raisonnée. All vineyard work is by hand; the soils are worked only superficially, at most twice per year, to...

Sustainable
DB0010-21

Clos de la Roilette - Fleurie "La Griffe du Marquis"
Gamay from Beaujolais, France

100% Gamay. Grapes from most of Roilette's oldest vines go into the "Cuvée Tardive" bottling, but a small portion of them dating back to 1930 are reserved for the smallest of all Roilette production, La Griffe du Marquis, the only barrique-aged wine from this cellar. As for the other estate vines,...

Sustainable
DB0671-20

Maestro del Pomidoro

Maestro del Pomidoro - Rosso di Toscana
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy

Mr. Tomato Man! 85% Sangiovese and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced from Tuscan vineyards. Pizza wine unparalleled. Spaghetti wine sine qua non. Caprese wine capo di capi tutti. With its enticing black fruit aroma and luscious mouthfeel, this is about the most fun you can have with a bottle of wine...

DB0030-19

Maestro del Pomidoro - Rosso di Toscana
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy

DB0030-20

Viñátigo

Viñátigo - Gual
Gual from Canary Islands, Spain

100% Gual from Finca San Juan Degollado and Finca Mazapé. Ungrafted grapevines. Gual was the first of the near-extinct native varieties from the Canary Islands that Juan Jesus recuperated. Both plots are from the northwest of Tenerife and are made of young volcanic soils with good drainage. These...

Organic
DB0101-21

Viñátigo - Listán Blanco
Listán Blanco from Canary Islands, Spain

One hundred per cent Listán Blanco (aka Palomino Fino) from ungrafted vines. These vines are pergola-trained and about one hundred years old on average and planted between 500 and 900 meters of altitude above sea-level. Vinification and aging is done in inox tanks. Fresh, salty, mineral-driven and...

Organic
DB0705-21

Viñátigo - Vijariego Negro
from Canary Islands, Spain
Organic
DB1773-20

Viñátigo - Marmajuelo
Marmajuelo from Canary Islands, Spain
Organic
DB1737-21

Viñátigo - Vijariego Blanco
Vijariego Blanco from Canary Islands, Spain

One hundred per cent Vijariego Blanco from ungrafted grapevines. Vijariego Blanco is the most acidic variety from the Canary Islands. It also adapts itself very well to different environments. The plots where this fruit comes from are in the villages of San Juan de la Rambla, La Guancha and Icod de...

Organic
DB7855-20