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04/09/2026

Sassara 'Pinot Griso' 2024! Yes, skin contact Pinot Grigio, aka Pinot Grigio Ramato! I love the texture and salty minerality of this!

Available at Smalls and Solo Italiano

Ripe Pinot Grigio with 3 days skin contact. Spontaneous fermentation without temperature control. Aged in stainless steel. No filtering or fining and no added sulfur.

Alessia Bertaiola and her husband, Stefano, a 3rd generation winemaker whose family have owned these vineyards on the hill of Monte Mamaor for more than 50 years. They took over the property in 2007, and with Alessia's strong background in agricultural research and development, quickly converted each plot to biodynamic farming. 10 hectares are planted to vines and the other 4 are left wild for biodiversity.

04/07/2026

Fratelli Badini 'Valdagno' Vin Santo! Incredible opulent and dramatic Vin Santo made in the Solera style by the Badini family since the 1880s! Go treat yourself

available at Now You're Cooking, Enoteca Athena, Lily Lupine and Fern, Via Vecchia, Golden Harvest, The Wine Seller, Bread and Friends, Vinolio, Norumbega, and Twelve

Hand harvested Malvasia Toscana and Canaiolo that are dried on mats until January and then pressed. The volume of juice they can extract from the grapes at that point is tiny and it’s very concentrated. The wine ages in little old sherry barrels for three years without the barrels being opened or topped up. Then they draw off wine from the oldest barrels and bottle it. The barrels get topped up from the next oldest and so on down the line. The labor that goes into this is pretty crazy and the volume of wine produced is tiny.

04/05/2026

Talking with Davide at Bbirbiciu on Pantalleria last month. This Zibibbo is incredible. It's so achibgly beautiful but it's also clearly natural and zero sulfur. It's got this wild raw character and makes it even more gorgeous. It's Pantalleria sunlight in a bottle, poetry in the glass: one of my favorite wines in a long time.

04/04/2026

Cellario E Orange! Yes, one of our favorite orange wines is back! For a limited time anyway, we could only get 30 cases.

Always a tinkerer and responding to different vintage conditions Fausto adjust the blend of this wine each year in order to maintain a consistent through line. This year’s E Orange is made from Nascetta and Moscato. The grapes were all separately hand harvest into small bins and then fermented with native yeast for 5 days of skin contact. It was aged in amphora for about 5 months and then bottled with minimal sulphur and without filtering or fining.

04/03/2026

Luna Duna Tinto Liter 2024

Luna Duna red is a mix of 90% Criolla Chica (Pais) and 10% Criolla Blanca, so yes this is red with some white grapes included in the blend. The production here is pretty similar to the Naranjo: grown on pergolas, hand harvested, the fruit is all destemmed and then fermented and aged in large concrete tanks.

03/31/2026

Cantine Barbera 'Coste al Vento' Grillo Frizzante DOC 2023

Available at

Cantine Marilena is a family winery down on the south west coast of Sicily, near Menfi and run by Marilena Barbera. Marilena’s parents and grandparents made wine here, but like lots of kids that grow up in a rural place she decided to go away to university and then practice international law. Eventually though she missed Sicily and her parents needed help, so she returned and took over running the winery. She has about 14 hectares, all farmed organically, and she ferments everything spontaneously. This wine is made from Grillo that grows within a mile of the sea on an unusual vineyard that is a steep clay dominated hillside. The grapes are hand harvested and destemmed as soon as they arrive at the winery, then the must is chilled down and macerates for a few days before it all goes into amphorae to ferment on the skins for about a week. Then the juice is racked off of the skins and the wine finishes fermenting in stainless steel tanks

03/28/2026

Valérie Forgues Touraine Gamay! This is lovely fruity Gamay... that's also substantial and has a serious rocky core. It's world's away from Beaujolais but equally delicious and interesting.

Available at Maine & Loire, Rosemont Marlet, and Friends and Family

Her Gamay comes from 40-ish year old Gamay vines grown on classic clay and limestone soil. Valerie hand harvests, destems, and direct presses the grapes into a mix of stainless steel and fiberglass vats. The juice ferments with native yeast and then is bottled without filtering or fining.

The label is a painting that her mother made when she was a young woman. She grew up in the Touraine region, and for Valerie the painting represents coming back to her roots.

Matt, one of the awesome guys who runs the Devenish warehouse, is struggling to find a Portland area apartment. Matt is ...
03/27/2026

Matt, one of the awesome guys who runs the Devenish warehouse, is struggling to find a Portland area apartment. Matt is a fantastic reliable and very conscientious part of our team. He left his past living situation because it wasn't fit for habitation. Now he needs to find a 2 bedroom in the Portland area for himself and his two younger children. Matt is a great dad, a nice guy, and likes collecting pokemon cards; my kids are always excited to see him. I would absolutely rent to Matt if I had any available apartments in my buildings! But I don't right now, so I'm turning to social media. Any ideas or leads are very much appreciated!

03/26/2026

Eduardo Torres Acosta 'Versante Nord' Siciliane Bianco 2024! Lovely Briny uplifted volcanic white!

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Eduardo’s Versante Nord Bianco and Rosso both come from the same 6 parcels totaling about 2 hectares on Etna’s north slope. They vary in elevation between 750 and 950 meters above sealevel. They’re all co-planted field blends so Eduardo makes multiple different harvests to get the white grapes and then a bit later to get the red grapes. For the bianco the various grapes are all co fermented. He has a large number of vines of the rare Minella variety: it’s a bit more elegant and aromatic than Carricante or Greco. I think I usually get more white wild flowers and citrus blossoms from it. The grapes are all destemmed and then ferments spontaneously in concrete. It get’s 2-5 days of skin contact, but Eduardo isn’t trying to make an orange wine so thanks to the aging and settling of the wine it isn’t too cloudy and the flavors are all quite pretty, fresh, and precise.

03/26/2026

Eduardo Torres Acosta 'Versante Nord' Siciliane Bianco 2024! Lovely Briny uplifted volcanic white!

Available at Franciska, Maine & Loire, Leeward, Table Bar, and Solo Italiano

Eduardo’s Versante Nord Bianco and Rosso both come from the same 6 parcels totaling about 2 hectares on Etna’s north slope. They vary in elevation between 750 and 950 meters above sealevel. They’re all co-planted field blends so Eduardo makes multiple different harvests to get the white grapes and then a bit later to get the red grapes. For the bianco the various grapes are all co fermented. He has a large number of vines of the rare Minella variety: it’s a bit more elegant and aromatic than Carricante or Greco. I think I usually get more white wild flowers and citrus blossoms from it. The grapes are all destemmed and then ferments spontaneously in concrete. It get’s 2-5 days of skin contact, but Eduardo isn’t trying to make an orange wine so thanks to the aging and settling of the wine it isn’t too cloudy and the flavors are all quite pretty, fresh, and precise.

03/23/2026

Luna Duna Naranjo Liter 2024

The Luna Duna Naranjo is 90% Moscatel and 10% Criolla Blanca. The 25 acre vineyard is at about 2000 ft above sea level and the vines are trained up on pergolas. The fruit is hand harvested, all destemmed, and fermented with native yeast in 8000L concrete tanks. The juice has 12 days of skin contact but I don’t think there’s much stirring or punch downs

The Luna Duna wines are made by Matias Morcos from his family’s vineyards in Eastern Mendoza. His grandparents planted these vines back in 1930. The grapes are hand harvested and fermented with natural yeast in concrete tanks. Brian from Brazos met Morcos and was impressed by his old vines and excellent wine.

03/21/2026

Col di Bacche 'Colle di Bacche' Morellino di Scansano DOCG 2023! Big Lush ripe Sangiovese from the Tuscan seaside!

Available from Wine Wise and Via Vecchia

I've loved Morellino di Scansano for about as long as I’ve been in the wine business. Morellino di Scansano is a DOCG on the coast of Tuscany near to Grosseto and named for the medieval town of Scansano. The wine region was created as a DOC in 1978 and then elevated to DOCG status in 2007, but wine making here goes back to the Etruscans. The land of the DOCG is unique: about 15 square miles of steep south facing hills with relatively high altitude of about 500’ above sea level and soil made up of volcanic material and fine limestone sand. Morellino is the local name for Sangiovese and Morellino di Scansano has to be at least 85% Sangiovese.

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