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- Bruno Paillard, Premiere Cuvee, Extra Brut 375ml$36.00
A blend of the champagne trifecta - Chardonnay Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier She's fun, festive and cute. First you'll catch aromas of fruit that's straight out of the dehydrator like apple, lemon and apricot. It smells nostalgic, somewhere between your grandmother's guest room potpourri and the mixed dried fruit and nut bowl that's left out on the christmas mantel. She has a golden straw color and tight, fine bubbles due to her age and wisdom. She is lively on the palate with notes of toasted almonds and currant and fig jams on buttered brioche. If you're patient w/ her, she'll open to reveal ripe plums and pears. Find a dozen oysters or a hunk of brie and have yourself a party for 1.
- 2018 Lelarge-Pugeot 'Luna Vol. 3' Chardonnay/Pinot Noir, Vrigny$140.00
This family is a little too good to be true. They've been growers in champagne since 1799. They farm organically (and are certified). They wrote letters to their neighbors offering to help them with organic farming practices, teach a man to fish style. They also keep honeybees! Now they've released a series highlighting their continued experiments in natural vinification including zero added sulfur, all indigenous yeast and addition of natural sugar (ehem, honey!). It's vinified to be bone dry. Vol. 3 is a blend of 85% Chardonnay and 15% Pinot Noir from a very sunny vintage. A short maceration and 9 months of barrel-aging are followed by 3 years on the lees, resulting in a wildly complex champagne with aromas of candied strawberry on the nose and a long, rich mineral-driven finish.
- Vermouth/Amaro 3 Pack$70.00
Know a craft cocktail fiend with a proclivity for all things house made? Here's a 3 pack containing 2 vermouths + 1 amaro, perfect for sipping or mixing. 3 bottles, each 8 oz.
- Just Vermouth #1$25.00
Dry style vermouth made with curry leaf, jasmine, wormwood, and a bunch of secrets
- Just Vermouth #2$15.00Out of stock
Sweet style vermouth made with mushrooms, sage, wormwood, and more saucy secrets
- Just Amaro$25.00
Bitter, but not too bitter. Spicy, but not too spicy. Perfectly cacao-y.
- Women In Wine Tote$20.00
Want to strut around town with a sweet bag? You can highlight several all female own businesses and support women's reproductive rights at the same time! 100% of tote sales will go to the National Network pf Abortion Funds. Help build power with organizations to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. Abortion is healthcare
- Dubois Tote$20.00
Appropriately, a little Sander's style b/c Anne-Sophie Dubois is shaking up the viticultural scene in Beaujolais. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
- Forsoni Tote$20.00
Can you kill a wild boar w/ your bare hands? Dora can and does, then makes sausage. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
- Danielle Shehab Tote$20.00
Feeling too timid to rock your new lip color during business hours?Let Danielle bring a little color your life. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
- Beck Tote$20.00
I wish I could rock these sweet Euro bangs but we'll leave it to Judith for the coif and the wine. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
- Pipette #1$26.00
Focused more on capturing the mood of the places it visits, people’s characters and the journey of its writers, and the winemakers or chefs they meet, instead of the usual highly technical details and the notion of wine scoring. Pipette, the French word which means “wine thief”, is the instrument used to pull samples of wine from a barrel for tasting.The first issue brings us stories from different corners of the globe, from Austria where a sister duet makes a name for natural wine, from Toronto where grape witches seem to have put some sort of spell on the local wine scene, from a garage winery in Melbourne, from California, from Paris and from Copenhagen, Pipette offers a proper immersive experience for the wine nerd.
- Pipette #2$26.00
Issue #2 is contains contemporary, original journalism about natural wines and the culture around them. Stories in this issue highlight Georgian wine; Italian winemakers Denavolo and the late Ernesto Cattel of Costadilà; Galicia’s La Perdida; Chateau de Béru (she's amazing!) in Chablis; an interview with iconic wine writer Alice Feiring; and so much more!
- Pipette #3$26.00
Stories in Issue 3 highlight Loire Valley winemaker François Saint-Lô; the Burgenland’s Claus Preisinger; an in-depth story on cult French winemaker Daniel Sage; political and travel essays; an interview with Southold Farm + Cellar after their first vintage in Texas; and so much more (we can’t give it all away!). The articles are accompanied by original, professional photography and artwork. Pipette Issue 3 was released in June 2019.
- Pipette #5$26.00
Issue 5 features 2NaturKinder of Germany; Desrochers D of Quebec; Pācina of Tuscany, Italy; Marco Buratti of Veneto, Italy; Foradori of Trento, Italy; Tanca Nica of Pantelleria, IT; Jérôme Prévost of Champagne; Bar Cortijo in Spain; Caleb Leisure of Sonoma; Wild Arm Farm in New York State; and city guides to Milan, Turin, and Venice.
- Pipette #6$26.00
This brand-new issue contains: long-form features on Commune of Buttons (Australia); Naboso (Slovakia); Trossen (Germany); and Maloof Wines (Oregon). As well, it holds an essay on natural wine culture in the U.S.; the stories behind June Bar; Loup Bar; and Lane Harlan's hospitality work in Baltimore; a personal essay by Julia Sherman about making natural verjus in California; an interview with comedian/winemaker Eric Wareheim; and city guides to Los Angeles and Paris. (Still being distributed, please allow additional time for shipping.... :)
- What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking, Terry Theise$22.00
What makes a wine worth drinking? As celebrated wine writer Terry Theise explains in this gem of a book, answering that seemingly simple question requires us to look beyond what’s in our glass to consider much bigger questions about beauty, harmony, soulfulness, and the values we hold dear. Most of all, Theise shows, what makes a wine worth drinking is its authenticity. When we choose small-scale, family-produced wine over the industrially produced stuff, or when we opt for subtle, companionable wines over noisy, vulgar ones, we not only experience their origins with the greatest possible clarity and detail—we also gain a new perspective on ourselves and the world we inhabit. In this way, artisanal wine is not only the key to good drinking; it is also the key to a good life. It is an unforgettable literary journey into the heart and soul of wine.
- Mimi, Fifi and Glouglou: A Short Treatise on Tasting
An immoderate passion for wine may cause one to behave irresponsibly. But in Mimi, Fifi and Glouglou’s case, it’s not that they drink too much but that they drink all the time. Tasting wines occupies their thoughts all day and their dreams by night -- tasting of course, but making comparisons, finding the right words to describe the fleeting, imperceptible sensations in each sip. Most of all what they consider to be the Holy Grail of wine tasting: passing themselves off as the James Bonds of wine tasting being able with just one sniff or just one taste to recognize a wine, its vintage, its winery and if they’re lucky, its vintner, his daughter’s name and what breed of dog they own. «Alas, this exercise is disappointing. Mimi, Fifi and Glouglou will find themselves assailed by ignorance, pre-conceived notions and misguided faith, and failure. However, nothing can stand between our valiant crusaders and their next glass.
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