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Devenish Wines Wines that taste like where they come from!

Tomorrow (Monday) from Noon to 3pm. This is Trade only
04/26/2026

Tomorrow (Monday) from Noon to 3pm. This is Trade only

04/21/2026

Sassara 'Vin de Famea' Torbolo 2024

Vin de Famea is a wine that hadn't been brought into the country before, but I loved it when I tasted samples. Torbolo means "not clear" and it is not! This is super unusual: it's a light red wine made from Corvina and Rondinella grapes, but after the wine has been in tank for a year they added the skins from making their rose, the Chiaretto. This kicks of an extra fermentation and adds extra complexity, sort of like a Ripasso wine, except this is still a fresh and poised light red. Like all the others this is spontaneous ferment, unfiltered and fined, and zero sulfur.

The Devenish Portland Spring Trade show is coming up this Monday! Noon-3, Trade Only
04/15/2026

The Devenish Portland Spring Trade show is coming up this Monday! Noon-3, Trade Only

Don’t miss the party everyone will be talking about! ’s 7th annual fundraising celebration 🌸 Spring is in the AiR 🌸 retu...
04/14/2026

Don’t miss the party everyone will be talking about! 

’s 7th annual fundraising celebration 🌸 Spring is in the AiR 🌸 returns on Thursday, April 16 from 6–9 PM at Maine Studio Works in Portland, ME. Come dance the night away and raise a glass (along with some essentially needed funds) all in support of IAA’s Artist Residency programs, uplifting Black and Brown artists across Maine and beyond.

Experience an electrifying Indigo Poppin’ Dance Party with DJ Benjamin Spalding (IAA’s ’22 + ’25 David C. Driskell Fellow), complemented by a delicious culinary lineup from Oun Lido’s, Katahdin Kitchen, Niyat Catering, along with treats from Dean’s Sweets.

Throughout the evening, guests will have the chance to purchase exclusive curated experiences, representing the breadth of IAA’s cultural community. These experiences include partnerships with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Maine Maritime Museum, Maine MILL, and the Portland Museum of Art, plus a powerful offering centered on Ashley Bryan’s legacy and a once-in-a-lifetime Safari in South Africa.

Ain’t no party like an Indigo Party! 🪩 Tap on the link in bio to learn more and get your tickets now.

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is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of , Back Cove Financial, , , , , , , Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty, , Michael Hirschhorn, , and .

04/12/2026

Bernard Baudry 'Les Granges' Chinon 2024! Lovely lush, elegant, and richly fruity Cabernet Franc!

Les Granges comes from an approx 30 year old vineyard in a town called Cravant which is all aluvial gravel. Fermentation happens spontaneously in unlined concrete vats for 2 weeks but can go for 2 months. Then the wine spends 9-10 months resting in concrete until it’s bottled.

Way back in 2012 I visited Laurent Bonnois in the Loire valley for the first time. It was the first time I had visited a French wine region! Laurent took me to some of the wineries he worked with, but he also took me to visit Bernard and Matthieu Baudry in Chinon. Laurent didn’t work with them, but he said this was the best Chinon and that they were really great wine makers and that I really should taste these wines as a foundational property in the Loire. Well, now here we are many years later and now I actually work with Domaine Baudry! How cool is that?

Cellario E Orange! Yes, one of our favorite orange wines is back! For a limited time anyway, we could only get 30 cases....
04/11/2026

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

Available at Fog, Folk, Rosemont Market, Vessel & Vine, Sissle and Daughters, Monte's, and First Fig

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.

Aroma: lovely beautiful aromatic orange blossom! Definitely some fresh juicy clementine and mandarin orange, then a subtle briny salty aroma, a hint of pineapple, and some sage and a bit of the smell of ivy in the background. It's a really lovely bright heavy springtime aroma

Taste: fresh, vibrant, crisp acidity supporting clean bright fresh mandarin orange leads off on the palate, but it feels like the driving core of the wine is a tasty savory saltiness on the palate. There's a subtle touch of tannin on the finish that creates a lingering  pithy fresh pulpy orange taste. The fruit components of the profile are bright and precise and tart; the aroma is definitely Moscato but on the palate it's much more structured and focused thanks to the Nascetta. I’d bet Fausto is doing several harvests and using some less ripe Moscato to get some aromatics but keep the fruit restrained; it works super!

04/11/2026

Domaine Espiers Gigondas “Cuvée Les Grames”!

A small single vineyard with the name “Les Grames”. This is co-planted ad co-fermented 65% Grenache and 35% Syrah. The wine making is nearly identical to the Sablet with 80% destemmed and all aged in cement tanks. Les Grames is a large lieu dit that comprised part of Philippe’s Cuvée Tradition Chateauneuf du Pape, Philippe began bottling this wine on it’s own with the 2015 vintage.

Sassara Esotico Rose 2024!Available at Smalls, Now You're Cooking, Lambs, Sissle and Daughters, and the Wine Seller Is i...
04/10/2026

Sassara Esotico Rose 2024!

Available at Smalls, Now You're Cooking, Lambs, Sissle and Daughters, and the Wine Seller

Is it red? Is it pink? Is it orange? Call this blend whatever you want!  It's 30% red grapes (Corvina, Rossanella, Rondinella, Molinara) and 70% white grapes (Fernanda, Moscato, Trebbianello, Trebbiano, Garganega, Tocai), all from old vines that are co-planted. Hand harvested and spontaneously co-fermented with 10 days of skin maceration and without temperature control. Aged in stainless steel. No filtering or fining and no added sulfur.

Aroma ripe, vibrant, and really lovely aromatic ripe orange leads off. The citrus blossom aroma is beautiful and then there's also a delicious preserved peach. The aroma is kind of heady but not too much - not too ripe: it comes across like it's going to be fun and refreshing and playful

Taste: lovely ripe mandarin orange is the driving flavor on the palate. It's bright and clean, it has some nice tension. The flavors are precise and there's a lovely slightly crunchy rocky minerality that underpins the fruit. The minerality isn't super savory or saline, but it really helps put the wine together. There's just a touch of tannin to the finish. I think the best way to describe this to customers is as a precise crisp rose from the Italian lakes district, but it could certainly pass for an orange wine as well.

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.

04/09/2026

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.

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