Champagne Piollot Cuvee de Reserve
$89.99
Champagne Piollot, based in the Cote des Bars, is produced by husband and wife Roland Piollot and Dominique Moreau (whose exceptional wines are sold as Marie Courtin, a KWM exclusive), from vines owned by Roland’s family in the Aube. Roland is the 5th generation, with the estate being founded 19th Century. It was then extended by Roland’s father, Robert. Robert’s legacy was planting the ‘Val Colas Robin’ parcel (in 1955), which produced a 100% Pinot Blanc Cuvée ‘Colas Robin’. This was incredibly rare at the time as many of Robert’s neighbours were grubbing up Pinot Blanc vines to be replanted with the more popular Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. However, it wasn’t until 1986 when Roland decided to bottle under his own family name. Farming has been organic since 2009, with a more recent move to work biodynamically. The house style is very much one of precision, and elegance.
Delinquente Jaybird Bianco Macerato
$33.99
Delinquente makes small batch, minimal intervention wines from Southern Italian grape varieties grown in the Riverland, South Australia. The Bianco Macerato is an easy-drinking, approachable skin contact white wine. Each parcel was fermented separately – the Fiano and Chardonnay were pressed off skins straight away, while the Arinto Vermentino and Malvasia were fermented on skins until sugar dry, up to 14 days. Each parcel was allowed to go through malolactic fermentation and settle out before being blended just prior to bottling.
Garage Wine Co. Cinsault
$47.99
Contrary to what many wine labels champion, most old vineyards are neglected and for three simple reasons.
- too far from a paved road
- too small to fill a truck
- too narro
Contrary to what many wine labels champion, most old vineyards are neglected and for three simple reasons.
- too far from a paved road
- too small to fill a truck
- too
Garage Wine was literally started in a garage in 2001, by Etobicoke expat Derek Mossman and his wife Pilar Miranda. Since then, the dynamic duo handcraft wines from a series of individual vineyards located in the Maule and Itata Valleys, in the south of Santiago, Chile.
Garage Wine Co makes wines from a series of individual parcels, small lots/bottlings of 8-22 barrels that include a series of dry-farmed field blends of Carignan, Garnacha, Monastrell, País, Cinsault and Cab Franc grown on pre-phylloxera rootstock with small farmers in the Maule and Itata. Each wine is from a 1-2 hectare parcel in a different place. Over the years working in the community they have raised a veritable posse of vineyard hands whose skills are working the vineyards the old way / the traditional way, or as they say originario. The vineyards are on the old coastal range of mountains closer to the Pacific and have granitic soils with cracks for roots to get deep down into.
When GWCo. speaks of the provenance of these wines they mean more than just the geological terroir. Derek and Pilar think the farming practices that have evolved over generations have as much to do with the wines’ personalities as the soils. All the wines are made by hand with native yeasts in small tanks, punched down manually and pressed out in a small basket press. GWCo is still very much a DIY operation and we still tow much of the crop back to the winery in trailers behind trusty pickup trucks 2,000 kilos at a time narrow [between the rows] for a tractor to work gorgeous fruit, from age-old vines, simply passed over for not being efficient enough!
Eighty Eight Streets of Fire Hazy IPA
$24.49
Chateau Olivier Red Pessac Leognan
$149.99
The vineyard of Château Olivier is located 11 km from Bordeaux, in the heart of a field of 210 hectares consisting of meadows around the castle, century-old oaks, pions and a vineyard of 50 hectares. The average age of the vineyard is 20 years old. The soils and basements are serious Guziennes and clay-limestone. The grape variety is Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon for the white, and Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot for the red.The work in the vineyard is traditional, and “green” operations are conducted at the castle: leaf stripping, manual harvesting.. The choice of bunches is meticulous: harvest by hand in crates, sorting table in the cellar. The ageing is carried out in barrels of which 40% new for 12 months. A gigantic work on the soil has shown that the lands of Chateau Olivier were located on the most beautiful terroirs of the Pessac Léognan appellation. All the work done during these last 10 years should allow the castle Olivier to find it's rightful place amongst Bordeau's best..
Annex Don Coyote Coffee Stout 4pk
$19.49
Blindman Imperial Sour
$22.49
Trois Mousquetaires Reserve Noel
$13.99
Glup Carignan
$21.99
Produced from ancient granitic soil witha high degree of decomposition and clay. Fermented in tank with indigenouis yeast and then transferred to barrel for 12 months. Ripe and juicy and true to the nature of the varietal.