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We're very pleased to be pouring new arrivals for the trade at Little Duck, Dalston on Monday, May 13!
We'll be there with Otros Vinos and Ferran from Bodega Clandestina, from 11am to 3.30pm - Ferran will be pouring his 2023 vintage as well as a couple back vintages.
Simple drop us an email if you work in the trade to RSVP.
Thrilled to have new wines available from Patrizia and Max at Cantina Ortaccio - working vines by hand scattered through Gradoli & Latera. The 2022 releases are brilliantly bright and delicate, very much wines of the vintage.
Read moreA tasting of summer wines for the trade: email us to RSVP!
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Very excited to be spending the first May Bank Holiday by the sea next week with our pal Francesco Pozzobon (Tenuta Foresto) at the delightful new wine bar: Drifter, Brighton!
Francesco will be on hand to pour his macerated whites: the perfect foil to plates of seafood that the guys at Drifter will be serving up, with the pebble beach beyond them: good wine, good food and no doubt good music, lovely way to spend a sunny Monday evening - from 5pm onwards!
Open to all, hope to see you there, or in the sea. 🌊
New releases just arrived from Nicola & Daniel at Offbeat! Spring/Summer drinking in its finest forms no matter the occasion: Piquette, Pet-Nat, Cider and a Wine/Cider hybrid!
Read moreNew wines from the Brand Bros! Predominantly from the warm, fruit-driven 2022 vintage, the wines still sing with their signature acidity: a true reflection of the brothers' commitment to soil health through diligent attention to detail in the vineyards.
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Looking forward to pouring in the North East again alongside Beattie & Roberts, Gergovie Wines, Otros Vinos, Roland Wines, Wayward Imports and Wright's Wines at the lovely House Bar (Heaton, Newcastle) - thanks so much to Ailsa & Ethan for organising this one.
Monday May 13, pouring for the trade from 11am - 5pm. House Bar will be kicking open the doors to the public from 6pm for more wine and snacks, so please do come through!
If you work in the trade and would like to taste, please drop us a message to RSVP.
In little over a week we're very pleased to be taking part in the 2024 edition of the Real Wine Fair!
Here's who will be joining us this year:
Andi Weigand will be pouring a full range of his juicy 2022 wines, farmed on the keuper slopes of Iphofen, Franconia - the land where Silvaner (and techno) reign supreme.
Vincent Alexis will be on hand to pour through multiple vintages from his Barouillet domaine, a rare chance to try his experimental cuvees alongside heavy-hitting crowd favourites.
Hugo Stewart will be on hand to represent the eponymous Domaine Hugo, pouring his pure, invigorating sparkling wines and if we're lucky, he may have a little of his very limited still cuvée: Two Times A Half under the table!
Nicola & Daniel Ham will be pouring through all their new Offbeat releases, wines with prolonged foudre ageing, experimental macerations and cider/wine hybrids - we can't wait for you to try these!
Looking at the map for this year's RWF, it looks like Andi will be waving distance from the UK growers in the Main Gallery, with Vincent a few tables behind, splashing wines around the sea of France.
Let us know if you're attending on either the 28th or 29th so we can introduce you to the growers! Looking forward to seeing you all there.
If you haven't booked yet, you can do so via the button:
A beautiful day taking a deep dive into soil health, micro-organisms, and the impact of good soil on good wine with Sophie Evans & her mentor Michael Voelker.
Read moreWe are thrilled to welcome Lucy Chilvers to the family! Organically farming 4.5 hectares of indigenous varieties in the El Penedès, she makes dazzling, invigorating expressions of the Catalunyan hills.
Read moreA tasting for the trade, celebrating the arrival of Lucy Chilvers to the family and new wines from Ham Street, Titch Hill & Quatro Mustachios!
Read moreWe've just received a top-up on three experimental cuvées from Barouillet! Vincent Alexis derives great joy from these outliers in the range, quietly refining unique wines from his smaller parcels.
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A beautiful day in Stockport celebrating the growing community of cutting-edge producers working in the UK today.
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Looking forward to returning to our beloved Ducksoup, Soho quicker than they can say slay - on Monday March 18 we'll be pouring spring pinks & reds alongside other fun bits for the trade, a warm-up act if you will, for the wonderful Samuel Párraga (Malaga), who will be in town with Otros Vinos!
To make a day of it, we'll also be joined by our pals Roland Wines and Wright's Wines - If you work in the trade, please email to book your space.
We can't wait, and hope to see you there!
A wonderful Monday tasting through the new 2022 whites, pet-nats and macerations from Yann Durrmann. All available now, whilst they last!
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A visit to see Xaviere with Caroline & Issy from ISCA and Richard from Salthouse Bottles - November 2023
60km north of Nantes in the village of La Chappelle-Glain, Xaviere Hardy makes nuanced, delicate wines from an isolated 1.5 hectares on blue schist, (hence Les Terres Bleues).
After close analysis of the terroir, and lobbying the local council to allow her to do so: Xaviere planted her vines in 2013. Being the only vineyard for miles around and with no precedent to follow, she focused her efforts on Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, and Grolleau, trained in the seldom-seen (in the Loire) Albarello style to help with sun exposure.
Working in such a unique way isn't the easiest path, but the wines are clearly worth it.
2022 marked a fairly triumphant year for Xaviere, with three long nights battling the threat of frost in early Spring, the vines remained well-protected. Come summer, with strong heat waves in the region, she dilligently sprayed her plants with chamomile and yarrow to help them cope with the drought. Benefitting hugely from the vines being trained on stakes, the height of the canopy created great shade, with the fruit seeing no sign of dehydration.
Good rain two weeks before harvest led to perfect ripening before a beautiful harvest in terms of both quantity and quality. Given the struggles Xaviere has faced in recent years, working incredibly hard to make the best of a tricky situation, its a true joy to see her finishing a vintage very happy with the resulting fruit.
The wines are a beautiful reflection of a good year, and are available now:
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2022 - AWA - Pinot Gris
A beautiful vintage for the Pinot Gris, managing to be both concentrated yet fresh and energetic. Incredibly long, textured. A triumph.
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2022 - Baraka - Grolleau
The 2022 Baraka has the profile of a Blanc de Noirs with just a little colour, waxy, generous and long. Pithy citrus with a very fine line of tannin, beautiful texture and finish.
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2022 - Ma Garance Voyageuse - Grolleau
Assembled this year from three different vinifications of her Grolleau parcels, one de-stemmed and macerated before ageing in barrique, one as a 70:30 blend of de-stemmed and whole-bunch, and another as a proper carbonic maceration- both aged in tank. Blended together after 9 months and bottled with no additions.
2022 - XH² - Pinot Noir
Incredibly fine, beautifully pure and expressive. Deep, pure fruited with a brilliant fine line of tannin. A brief, 7 day fermentation (Xaviere's Pinot is often a very fast fermentation)
Nine days to go before the British Wine Fair with Isca, Where The Light Gets In and Bedrock on March 3rd! Open to all, the fair will be an opportunity for everyone to taste, learn, share stories and celebrate the community blossoming around UK wine. Tickets available via WTLGI below!
Among our UK producers joining will be Sam & Dave from Quatro Mustachios !
📸 Sam Bunker of Quatro Mustachios (and Titch Hill) Bedrock at Ham Street 2023 by Bryan McComb
Meeting whilst studying at Plumpton in 2017; Sam Bunker & David Haynes officially started their 'international wine collective' Quatro Mustachios in 2020.
Working at vineyards across Europe, alongside the 3rd and 4th Mustachios - Teo Vitsas & Matthias Altmann - the four produced the first collaborative wine under the Quatro Mustachios tag in Austria at Matthias' cellar.
Sam & Dave later produced two more wines in Catalunya and Ribeira Sacra in 2021, before returning home to the UK, to focus on their mutual love of hybrids/PIWI's.
The first UK releases for Quatro Mustachios were produced in 2022 with zero additions in Sussex, using fruit from a 50-year-old vineyard in Somerset, and the other varieties coming from a vineyard on clay over sandstone in East Sussex.
Their wines are huge fun, a testament to intuitive, experimental winemaking and the wild potential of PIWIs in the right hands
The countdown continues to the British Wine Fair on March 3rd with ISCA , Where The Light Gets In and Bedrock - 10 days to go! Tickets are available via the link in our bio, the fair is open to all, and we can't wait to welcome you there.
A handful of some of the most exciting producers working on our shores today gathered together to pour their wines in celebration of a blossoming community of enthusiastic and passionate makers & drinkers!
Among our producers joining will be Nicola & Daniel at Offbeat - who we're very excited to release brand new cuvees from later this year. Watch this space!
📸 Nic & Dan at Bedrock at Ham Street, Summer 2023.
For those unfamiliar, Offbeat is the exciting project from Nicola & Daniel Ham, started in 2018 as a creative outlet, quickly becoming a full-time family operation. Both marine biologists, Dan was bitten by the winemaking bug while living in New Zealand as Nicola completed her PhD.
Since 2020 Dan and Nicola have been making the wines in their own cellar, a converted barn just outside Salisbury. They produce delicate and dynamic wines with no additions, using fruit from trusted growers with shared values. Since 2022, all fruit is organically or biodynamically grown.
We're very excited to be heading to Stockport in less than two weeks for a British Wine Fair on March 3: a collaboration with Isca, Where The Light Gets In along with ourselves and Bedrock .
They'll be opening the doors at WTLGI to over 10 of the most forward-thinking, committed winemakers and growers working in the country at the moment. Nearly all of the growers we work with will be joining, including Lucie from Ham Street who we'll soon be releasing new wines from!
Portrait of Lucie at Bedrock 2023, in her own vineyard by Bryan McComb.
Ham Street Wines is the project of husband & wife team Lucie & Jules, who planted four hectares of vines in 2019 on the edge of the Romney Marsh.
Certified organic, working according to biodynamic principles and following regenerative agricultural practices, the pair have a keen understanding that improving soil health and not upsetting the natural balance is the key to healthy fruit, and happy wines. Their first zero-sulphur releases were made in collaboration with Dan & Nic at Offbeat, and the build of their winery on the farm was completed in time to welcome the 2023 harvest.
In anticipation of new 2022 cuvées arriving from the Durrmann family of Andlau, we're very pleased to announce that Yann himself will be landing in London at the beginning of March, to pour across his range at Ducksoup on Monday, March 4.
A tasting for the trade, Yann will be pouring from 10am until 5pm and we'd encourage you to seize the rare opportunity to pop down to meet Yann, and learn firsthand the terroir of Andlau. We love these wines, but they become particularly special when placed in the correct geographical context with the help of Yann.
We really hope you can join us, please RSVP via the button below or email.