Wine Club Features

Harvest Club Wines: August in the Vineyard is continual Veraison for all of the berries! All the little green berries slowly begin to change colors depending on grape variety. Some from green to yellow, to pink, to purple, to even black!! This color changing is due to the chlorophyll in the berry skin being replaced by anthocyanins (red wine grapes...

Harvest Club Wines: July in the Vineyard means Veraison! All the little green berries slowly begin to change colors depending on grape variety. Some from green to yellow, to pink, to purple, to even black!! Featured Wines: Smallfry Wines | 2021 "Eclectik Violet" | Barossa Valley, Australia | Biodynamic and Organic Farming, Natural Winemaking | Made from 50/50 Grenache and...

"What is 'glou-glou'??" Simply put, the phrase “glou-glou” is meant to evoke the sound of liquid (in this case, wine) pouring rapidly out of a container, or down your throat. Featured Explorer Club Wines: 2021 La Croix Gratiot | "Les Raisins d'Abord" | Languedoc-Roussillon, France Situated between Bassin de Thau and hills of pines, the vineyard of La Croix Gratiot...

Featured Premier Club Wines: 2020 Domaine du Chambet | Chasselas | Geneve, Switzerland Domaine du Chambet is all about nature: named after the small stream that runs along their vineyards, it is located on the left bank of Lake Geneva, abutting the border of Haute-Savoie, France, where sunlight bounces off the Alps and shines down on the grapes. The family...

Featured Explorer Club Wines: 2019 Weingut Ziereisen | "Heugumberger" Gutedel (Chasselas) | Baden, Germany Stony, lissome and light, with the faintest hint of astringency in the tail, it slides down the throat as easily a hot knife slices through butter. The Markgräferland is, together with the Bodensee, the southernmost part of Baden. The soils here are predominantly limestone, which is...

Featured Premier Club Wines: The approach to its wines starts in the vineyard. As Pedro Coelho likes to say,  we look for pure and traditional wines with a well-marked identity,  where the main focus is the grape and the vine .Grapes harvested manually starting the journey long before the harvest, the objective is to produce wines that reflect the beauty...

Harvest Club Wines: June in the Vineyard means Fruit Set! Temperatures normally begin to rise in June, and the flowers open up to invite pollination. During this stage (which usually lasts about two weeks, until June 24th or thereabouts), good weather is of utmost importance, because torrential rains could ruin the entire harvest! Featured Wines: Berlucchi | "61" Franciacorta Brut...

Harvest Club Wines: May In The Vineyard: Most grapevines self-pollinate, after which fruit set occurs. This is when you’ll see small, green clusters of grapes on the vines. Fruit set usually begins in May, and if the weather doesn’t cooperate, vineyard managers still have to worry about frost. Not all the vines will pollinate, so fruit set is an important...

Featured Premier Club Wines: 2021 PRESS GANG CELLARS | "TRASH FIRE" GRENACHE/CHARDONNAY CO-FERMENTED & CHILLABLE RED WINE | LOS OLIVOS DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA | SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES, NATURAL WINEMAKING From the winemakers: "What started as a way to joke about the disasters and inconveniences of 2020, has transcended vintage and norms. We can now joke about this wine, about how it relates...

Featured Explorer Club Wines: 2020 GROUNDWORK WINE COMPANY | CARBONIC COUNOISE | PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA Groundwork is all about the fundamentals. Putting to use the empirical knowledge he has gained from making wine for his first label, Sans Liege Wines, Curt Schalchlin seeks to bring his experience to a new set of wines that embrace the soul and simple living...