Shades Of Autumn
Join us as we explore the flavors of Autumn through lesser known grape varietals. One white wine, one orange and finishing with two delicious red wines.
Triennes “Sainte Fleur”
Grapes: 100% Viognier
Place: Var - Provence, France
Process: The fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. All of the élevage then takes place in different stainless steel tanks in order to preserve freshness and crispy acidity.Intense perfume of apricot, honeysuckle, white flowers and honeyed lavender. This wine strikes a beautiful balance between aromatic richness, crisp acidity and mineral structure.
Family: Convinced by their Burgundian experience that the quality of great wines comes from the vineyard, the new owners began by investing heavily in the renewal and the tending of the vines. The focus on the vineyard remains a priority to this day. For the whites and the rosé, the foremost consideration is the finesse of fruit and freshness of the wines. The cool microclimate which Triennes naturally enjoys favors the acidity in the wines. For the reds, the desire is to produce structured wines which combine ripe fruit with complexity, elegance and finesse.
Bottle: $27 | Glass: $12
Division l’Orange
Grapes: Roussanne, Riesling, Chenin, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and Viognier.
Place: Oregon, United States
Process: “L’Orange” is one of our most complex wines to make but one of the easiest to enjoy. The goal is to capture unique colors, textures, and aromatics deliciously. We layer multiple white grape varieties and macerations (hence. the “skin contact”) to harmoniously land on a truly special wine for the category to enjoy this summer and all year long!
Along with notes of peach and thyme, we can't help but notice a touch of eucalyptus in the wine, connecting it to artist Camille Shu's "Eucs".
Family: Division Winemaking Company is a Portland, Oregon-based winery founded in 2010 by Kate Norris and Thomas Monroe.
Division represents a fresh generation of curious winemaking looking beyond the status quo to create unique wines from diverse grape varieties with both intention and a story.
Determined to make minimal intervention, approachable and balanced wines with great price to quality value, the winemakers work with terroir-expressive vineyards, focused on organic, regenerative and/or Biodynamic® farming.
Division Winemaking Company includes the flagship Division label, the quotidienne Division-
Villages label, as well as Nightshade and Gamine labels – a combination of both joint and personal expressions from each winemaker.
Bottle: $29 | Glass: $13
Praja Monica
Grapes: 100% Monica
Place: Sardegna, Italy
Process: The local Monica grape is fermented with native yeasts in cavernous cement tanks under the house. A zingy light bodied red wine. Think spicy-underbrush, herbal notes, and just a touch of fruit. Toasted f regola pasta with small clams, canned sardines, meaty olives. Good with a slight chill.
Cardedu practice organic farming. The Praja Monica vines are trained as low espalier. Harvest happens the second week of September and fermentation occurs using native yeast. The wine spends 12 days in room-large cement tanks from 1950’s. Élevage in the same tanks for 5 months. Unfiltered.
Family: Sergio Loi is a 4th generation traditional Sardinian producer, whose family winery from the early 900s has always practiced no chemical farming and minimum intervention in the cellar. The Cardedu [car-DAY-do] vineyards are located on the island’s sparsely populated Southeast, on crumbling granite soils near the coast, and schist in the ragged-dry hills and cliffs around Jerzu.
Bottle: $25 | Glass: $11
Estenas Bobal
Grapes: 100% Bobal
Place: Until - Valencia, Spain
Process: Crafted from en vaso trained Bobal vines averaging 50 years of age (some of them up to 100 years) located in the heart of Utiel-Requena on clay-calcareous soils. The wine is fermented in concrete tanks and raised in a mix of concrete and old American oak barrels.
Family: Founded in 1945 by Francisco Martinez Bermell, Vera de Estenas has been crafting wines from their 47 hectares of estate fruit since their inception. Situated at 800m elevation near the mouth of the Estenas river near the foot of the Sierra del Remedio mountains, their en vaso trained vineyards run northwest to southeast along a broad swath of calcareous clay soils. Summer brings scorching heat, but a cooling wind called the Solano brings relief, and nighttime temperatures can drop substantially due to the high elevation, helping to preserve acidity in the grapes. Under the current leadership of Felix Martinez, Vera de Estenas is producing some of the region’s most compelling wines, from Bobal vines as old as 100 years.
Bottle: $21 | Glass: $9