Wines with a sense of place.
Native varieties and thoughtful producers from four connected wine cultures.
- Wine
- Anatolia · Caucasus · Levant · Aegean
Four regions, one thread
Anatolia & the Aegean
Native varieties grown on ground that has carried vines for a very long time — Öküzgözü, Narince, Boğazkere and the Aegean whites among them. Grapes that never travelled far, made by people who stayed.
The Caucasus & the Levant
Saperavi and Rkatsiteli from Georgia, Areni grown high in Armenia, Obeidi from the Bekaa — and the clay-vessel tradition that runs through all of it. Different countries, one continuous thread.
Clay, not oak
Long before barrels there were vessels of unglazed clay, buried to the neck so the ground held them at temperature. Skins, stems and juice went in together and stayed there.
It is still done — not as re-enactment, but as the working method of people who never stopped. Wines made this way have grip and a faint savoury edge; they sit down more easily with food than with a tasting note.
At the table, or home with you
Bottles will be available to drink at the table or take home, with the same attention to place, grape and producer. The details are confirmed closer to opening.
Written to be read
Every bottle comes with a sentence you can act on: who made it, from what, where, and how. Nothing is left as a name you are expected to recognise, and nothing is chosen to test you.
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Skin-contact white wine got a colour name and a natural-wine reputation in the 2000s. The method is far older than the label, and it behaves differently from what the label suggests.
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What a qvevri actually is
A clay vessel buried to the neck, the ground holding it at temperature, and no barrel anywhere near it. How a long-established winemaking method still works.
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Every wine has a story.
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