Holiday Reds
Fantastic Wines for the Holiday Season!
Luigi Giordano Langhe Rosso
Grapes : Nebbiolo/Arneis
Place : Langhe - Piedmont - Italy
Process : The grapes are destemmed and pressed
gently to ensure preservation of aromatics and slow
extraction of color. Fermented under temperature controland daily pumpover, the wine spends 8-10 days on theskins and then completes malolactic fermentation in stainless-steel tanks.
After completing fermentation, the wine ages for
2 months in large Slavonian botte followed by at least 3 months in bottle prior to release.
Family : The winery was established by Giovanni Giordano in the 1930s during a time of profound crisis in the Italian wine world. After a period of growing and selling grapes, Giovanni’s son, Luigi, made the bold decision to vinify his own fruit, bottling the first wine under his own label in 1958. Today’s winery remains a spirited family effort, driven by the shared vision of Luigi himself, his daughter Laura, and his grandson Matteo
Price : 25 btl | 11 gls
Lunar Apoge Syrah
Grapes : Syrah
Place : Rhone Valley - France
Process : Dry farming. No chemicals used (pesticides, fertilizers, additives, etc). 100% Organic and Biodynamic Certified by Demeter. Entirely made by hand in small crates on the 1st half of September. Nocturnal harvest by hand to prevent oxidation. Native yeasts fermentation from the local yeast in small stainless steel tanks. No chaptalization and acidification at all. The idea is to stay natural as much as possible.
Family : The Leperchois family built the winery in Roquemaure in 1974 and converted the estate to organic in 1997 and to biodynamic practices in 2009. Fabien and Magali, avid advocates of biodynamic farming, explains why they call it natural viticulture: “...great wines can only be produced by working with nature, not struggling against it...after 25 years of observations and occasionally bitter experience, there is no longer a place for the ethics of productivity in the natural equilibrium at Lunar Apogé.”
Price : 25 btl | 11 gls
Perrini Salento Rosso
Grapes : Primitivo | Negroamaro
Place : Salento - Puglia - Italy
Process : Dry farming. No chemicals used (pesticides, fertilizers, additives, etc). 100% Organic The fruit is harvested by hand into small baskets and whisked to the winery to cool down before crushing. The grapes are pressed and the juice fermented without stems with natural yeasts in stainless steel tanks. Maceration lasts 12-14 days and temperatures are monitored throughout . The wine is aged in stainless steel tanks .
Family : The Perrini family have been making wine for generations. For many years most of the grapes were sold to local negociants , as the means and finances to estate bottle were not available to many of the local farmers. Vito and his sister Mila Perrini converted their family’s 50 hectares to organic viticulture in 1993, long before many in the area had even considered it. They built an underground cellar, definitively not the norm or the tradition in the region, and more importantly, a huge but necessary expense to make truly subtle wines, as opposed to the often too-heavy-handed fermentations of the region's native red grapes.
Price : 21 btl | 8 gls
Cardedu ‘Caldu’ Cannonau
Grapes : Cannonau a.k.a. Grenache
Place : Sardignia - Italy
Process : Native yeasts fermentation done in stainless steel for 14 days. Aged partly in concrete and large botti (Slovinian Oak). Unfined and Unfiltered with 20mg/l of Sulphur added at bottling.
Family : The vineyards of Cardedu (car-DAY-do) are in the area of Ogliastra, the most mountainous and least populous province on the island; a land of turquoise shimmer and ragged-dry cliffs. Here on the southeast coast of Sardegna the Loi family grows and makes wines from the native varieties Vermentino, Cannonau, and Monica. Cardedu is one of the island’s better known traditional producers. The Loi family doesn’t think of itself as a natural wine producer; they are not in that hipster giro / circle. Yet they dry farm without the use of herbicides or pesticides, and all wines ferment with native yeasts.
Price : 23 btl | 9 gls