The “Funky Fresh” BLIND 6-Pack
Costadilà 450
Costadilà – which is now based in San Lorenzo, in the hills of Vittorio Veneto – takes its name from the fraction of the municipality of Tarzo. Here among the hilly territories perfect for the production of Prosecco DOCG, Ernesto Cattel in 2005 began business as a farmer-winemaker or, as he liked to define himself, as an articulator, becoming the pioneer of an artisanal and quite genuine winemaking style that is based on the potential of the native grapes of glera, bianchetta trevigiana and verdiso from the hills of the Alto
Trevigiano. A return to countryside ways without following fashions or making compromises.
Talking about Costadilà is like talking about Ernesto Cattel and vice versa, because Costadilà was and still is one of his creatures, the personification of his philosophy and his vision.
Litrona
Litrona is our ode to the liter format which we heavily consumed during our college years in spain, except then it was beer. now it is wine but we tried to make it look like beer. it has been widely used in beer but not so much in wine. until now…Litrona Verdejo Grapes are 150+ years old, organically grown, hand harvested, fermented in clay amphora and aged in stainless steel tanks for about 3 months to preserve its young and fresh profile. Bottled unfiltered without sulphites, unfined and unfiltered. Light-boded, and meant to drank fast! Not too fruity actually, super easy going.
Delinquente Hell Rose
Delinquente makes small batch, minimal intervention wines from Southern Italian grape varieties grown in the Riverland, South Australia. We were born and raised in the Riverland, surrounded by vineyards and the mighty Murray River. Delinquente is our attempt at making the best wine we can from the place we grew up. Organically grown, minimal intervention, honest, hand-made wines that not only are great fun to drink, but represent the sun, the red dirt and uniquely Australian terroir of the Riverland. The Hell Wines are where we throw caution to the wind, get down and dirty, try new things and have a red hot go at making the most interesting, exciting and delicious wines we can from the vineyards we work with.
The Hell Rose is one that is always a bit of a mish-mash of parcels of wine that in any other situation would never be put together – but through tasting, experimentation and a bit of luck, all sort of work! The idea this year was to experiment with a backbone of Negroamaro made as a rose, and flesh that out with aromatic varieties to provide depth. Each variety was handpicked and pressed to stainless steel tank for fermentation. A wine that is all about drinkability. The Negroamaro has a lovely earthy acidity, tinglingly dry. The Malvasia brings the stone fruit sweetness and fruity aromatics, the Touriga a touch of red berry and that perfumed rose petal. Layered with interest, but gluggable as hell.
Envínate Benje Tinto
Sourced from 1,000 meters elevation, old-vine, pie franco parcels of Listan Prieto (Mission) with a bit of Tintilla, named “Masca,” “La Zanja,” “Valle de Arriba,” and “Llano Redondo”, all of them located in Santiago del Teide (Canary Islands, Spain). Each parcel is hand-harvested and vinified separately, some in concrete and some in small open tubs. Maceration is 10-30 days (depending on parcel) with daily punch-down; malolactic fermentation is in neutral French barriques, then raised 8 months in the same barrels without battonage. Bottling is without fining or filtration.
Envínate (translates as "wine yourself") is the brainchild of 4 friends, winemakers Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Martínez. This gang of 4 formed back in 2005 while studying enology at the University of Miguel Hernandez in Alicante. Upon graduation, they formed a winemaking consultancy, which evolved into Envínate, a project that focuses on exploring distinctive parcels mainly in the Atlantic-inflected regions of Ribeira Sacra and the Canary Islands.
Chalmers Montevecchio Rosso
Montevecchio wines are all about simplicity and fun, but never boring. Grown at our Heathcote vineyard in central Victoria, which is home to over 20 different Italian grape varieties, the name means old mountain referring to the Cambrian origins of the regions famous red soils. Montevecchio Rosso is a field blend made from a collection of loveable, red Italian varieties. It is estate grown, hand picked, co-fermented, wild yeast, basket pressed & vegan friendly.
Bloomer Creek
A Burgundian style Pinot Noir, made with hand-picked grapes from our Cayuga Lake (NY) "Auten Vineyard". Fermented with stems, aged on the lees in old French oak barrels, this wine exhibits the delightful cooked cherry, plum and earthy forest floor flavors typical of our Pinot Noir. The new label features a diagram drawn by vigneronne Debra Bermingham's father on the flyleaf of his college textbook in 1946. Spontaneously fermented, unfined and unfiltered, with minimal SO2 added only at bottling.
Kim Engle and his artist wife, Debra, have been growing grapes for over 30 years and, with meticulous attention to detail, have cultivated naturally balanced vineyards. Winemaking is very much minimal intervention (even before it was trendy), using indigenous yeasts. Old World wine suggests a flavor profile that is leaner, with more subtlety and nuance than rich, concentrated wines produced in the warm-climates of the New World. These distinctions can often blur as a result of modern winemaking techniques. However, Old World verses New World wine suggests differences stylistically. Viticulturally, the cool climate of the Finger Lakes should produce an Old World style of wine. Because we are committed to crafting wine as an unadulterated reflection of a place and time, Bloomer Creek follows the more traditional cellar practices found in the Old World.