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We're looking forward to getting 2026 started in earnest by opening new arrivals and optimistic bottles to coax back the sun from its sleep.
Join us alongside our pals Otros Vinos and Sén on Monday 26 January as we pour wines for the trade upstairs at Antidote from 10am - 4pm.
To RSVP please send an email with your group size & preferred time you'd like to taste. See you there!
Here's our pal Joe Gamble and our 2026 calendar he's illustrated for us: his take on a year in wine (in the northern hemisphere at least) in a three colour riso courtesy of the wonderful Pagemasters crew.
Talking about the project with Joe, and noting how we love to spot the calendars on growers' walls as we visit through the year, we found the idea particularly funny of a winemaker needing to turn to their calendar to remind themselves of that months important job, as if it wasn't just in their bones - and deciding to pass those important jobs through several layers of abstraction like a chaotic game of telephone.
Process is important to all of us, and we love that Joe decided to leave in all the artefacts of his process in the final product, just like in the wines we love - decisions upon decisions. Some shots from the project here courtesy of Joe and Pagemasters.
This is always a fun way to welcome the new year, and Pagemasters do such a wonderful job - for those unfamiliar, the Riso print process uses Soya and Rice-bran oil inks - better degradability properties than their petroleum-based counterparts - and the printer runs almost entirely without thermal energy - much more energy efficient than most digital printing processes such as laserjet and inkjet printing.
Both Pagemasters and Joe are available for future projects here:
Pagemasters - Deptford
Joe Gamble
Freija is back!
At the end of 2024 we received an excited message from Daniel & Jonas telling us about their new creation - inspired by their partners Pauline & Melanie becoming mothers and the result of lots of experimentation - they had finally cracked a properly delicious alcohol-free sparkling.
Since the first batch sold out we've been eagerly awaiting its return, and are very glad to say its now here.
Produced in collaboration with Jonas' partner Pauline Baumberger & her winemaking family - Freija No.1 is a complex sparkling, consisting of herbal teas made with foraged ingredients from both family vineyards, their own grapes and fruit, lacto-fermented raspberry, the results blended and carbonated. The ingredient list is short, and completely natural - a sight you rarely see on many no-alcohol alternatives.
With a huge focus on agroforestry in both families' vineyards, the Freija project allows an outlet to ensure this fruit production isn't wasted, and can be used in an exciting way, without sacrificing flavour and complexity, or compromising their philosophy.
Fruit for the 2025 batch was picked at the end of August, and the drink was bottled in mid-winter, no additions.
ZERO-ALC
NEW Freija NO.1 - Grape juice, lemon balm & wormwood, verjus and raspberry