Great Wine,
Better Company
A social wine club for people whose
favorite thing about wine is drinking it
Every month, Kathleen and Thomas hand-pick three bottles they're genuinely excited to drink themselves — the same wines you'd find sitting on their own kitchen table. Members gather at our monthly Release Party to taste each pour together, learn a little about what makes the wine worth drinking, and spend an evening with good company. No pretense, no book to pretend to read, no quizzes on tannins — just three great bottles and a reason to get together.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday | November 15 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Holiday Wine Market
Tuesday | November 17 | 8:00pm | November Release Party
Wednesday | November 18 | 8:00pm | November Release Party
Tuesday | December 15 | 8:00pm | December Release Party
Wednesday | December 16 | 8:00pm | December Release Party
Wine Club Selections for October
True to the “garagiste” principles of employing simple winemaking techniques, no destemmer are used, no addition of SO2, the fermentation is limited to the use of natural yeast, and only the most limited intervention is applied between grape and bottle.
This style fits not only Gilbert’s original focus, but fits with Domaine Finot’s philosophy as well.
Piedmont, Italy 2021
Made with Grignolino grapes, vinified and aged in stainless steel vats. Grignolino is a grape varietal indigenous to Monferrato, and one of the oldest from the region. The wine produced with these grapes has a light ruby -red color. On the nose it shows delicate wild strawberry- and spice notes, and on the palate it reveals an important tannic structure, as pleasant as it is unexpected. Grignolino, that was at risk of disappearing from the Piedmontese viticulture, is now experiencing an important rediscovery by fans of native, autochthonous vines.
Penedès, Spain 2024
Sus Scrofa is a lighter style of red, similar to a Pinot Noir but with the structure of a Nebbiolo. Red fruits and lavender aromas underlying Mediterranean dried herbs and wet chalk.
Grapes are sourced from 3 sites planted with Sumoll ove caly and limestone in 1950, 1999 and 2001. Sumoll was quite popular in the past but the growers started digging it up in favour of easier growing and more productive varietals. Nowadays just about 200 hectares remain planted in Catalunya.