May
30
FUSO
If any country can teach us about life’s small pleasures – such as enjoying a delicious and characterful daily drinker – it’s Italy! FUSO’s our project to search for and bottle natural wines from farmers we know here in Italy. We work with them choosing specific vineyards and are present for fermentation, élevage, sample tasting, […]
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May
30
Mirco Mariotti
Beach vines! Beach wines! The unique Bosco Eliceo has vines on the beach, and a long tradition of making frizzante metodo ancestrale wines with extremely old vines, some reaching more than 100 years old. Ernest first met Mirco Mariotti over ten years ago in the castle-and-moat city of Ferrara, where he was then living. The city is […]
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May
30
Valli Unite
In southeast Piemonte, Valli Unite may be Italy’s only natural wine cooperative, where vineyards lie amid beehives, farm animals, orchards, and truffle filled woodlands. From honey to homemade salami, and wine between, 30 members work on the 100-hectare farm and call it home. During harvest, you can still stomp grapes with your bare feet here. […]
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May
30
Cardedu
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, where soils are crumbling granite near the coast, and schist in ragged-dry cliffs around Jerzu. […]
