Taking wine back to it's origins - unfiltered and no added sulphites
Natural Wine
Natural Wine
Solara Orange Wine 2022
Regular price £13.95Refreshing like a white wine, with the complexity of red wine. This orange wine is made by leaving the grape skins and seeds in contact with the pressed juice, creating a deep orange-hued finish. The wine ferments naturally without the addition of yeasts, sulphur or any other additions. The different varieties are then blended and before a natural cold stabilisation, and bottled unfiltered and unfined.
Country: Romania
Region: Viile Timisului
Grapes: Feteasca Alba 51%, Sauvignon Blanc 19%, 30% Other
ABV: 12.5%
Solara Natural Red Wine 2023
Regular price £14.50This natural wine is chocca block packed full of bramble fruit notes with raspberry and blackberry dominating the aroma, smooth and juicy with complex notes of blueberry and moderate acidity and smooth tannins on the finish.
Country: Romania
Region: Panciu
Grapes: Merlot, Pinot Noir
ABV: 13.5%
Ânfora de Baco 2022 Quinta do Montalto
Regular price £22.95Hand harvested and completely destemmed, the wine was fermented and aged in the amphoras in contact with skins and lees. The inside of our amphoras is coated with natural tree resin according to the ancient process used by the Romans 2000 years ago. The wine has not been filtered or stabilised.
Rich, ripe and full of mulberry fruit character with a silky round tannic structure. Beautifully made low intervention wine.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisboa
Grapes: 50% Aragonez and 50% Trincadeira
ABV: 14%
Cluricaun Skin 2021
Regular price £16.70We love this orange wine with it's pale amber colour. Beautifully pure and textured palate with fresh nuttiness and fine spices. Tangerine and a hint of marmalade and lovely pure citrus fruits. Juicy linear and expressive with a salty tang on the finish.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisbon
Grapes: 20% Fernão Pires from Lisbon; 80% Siria from Beira Interior
ABV: 13%
Winemaker Andre is always interested in experimenting with new and old methods. He is the 5th generation of winemakers at Quinta do Montalto, the farm has 15Ha of Vineyards grown with organic certification since 1997 in Clay and Chalk soils under the Lisbon DOC Encostas D’Aire.
He uses ancient methods the create DOC Medieval Ourem, but also made new Portuguese Amphoras and uses the most modern low intervention techniques for his traditional range.
Tenuta Santi Giacomo e Filippo BellAntonio Elevato in Anfora 2021
Regular price £21.95A rich and textured white wine with great depth and complexity given from being made in clay amphora. Matches beautifully with antipasto and meat dishes, but equally very friendly drunk without food.
Country: Italy
Region: Marche
Grapes: Incrocio Bruni 54
ABV: 13%
Incrocio Bruni 54 is a crossing by pollenation of Sauvignon Blanc and Verdicchio which was done in 1936 by Professor Bruno Bruni while working for the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. It is only found in the Marche region and Tenuta Santi Giacomo e Filippo are championing it as Marche's flagship grape. Rightly so!
Cepa Pura Fernão Pires Unfiltered 2019 Quinta do Montalto
Regular price £18.95Fresh, zippy and zesty from native Portuguese grape Fernão Pires. Medium lemon yellow in colour. On the nose: citrus and pear, mineral, developed petrol notes and
hints of the wood. The palate is dry, firm and intense. Well structured, good texture, clean
and fresh. Long and moreish finish.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisboa
Grapes: Fernão Pires
ABV: 13.5%
Ageing “sur lie” with regular sterling in barrels. Bottled Unfiltered.
Maison Jean Loron 'Rift 69' Gamay Noir- No added Sulphites
Regular price £18.95The Loron Family have been producing great wines from Beaujolais since 1711 and have a peerless reputation!
Country: France
Region: Beaujolais
Grapes: Gamay
ABV: 13%
No added sulphites
Castelo Rodrigo Branco 2022
Regular price £15.95Dry, and citrussy with a long herbal, minerally finish. Fresh oregano, slightly saline.
Country: Portugal
Region: Beiras
Grapes: Siria, Malvasia, Fonte Cal, Rabigato
ABV: 13%
Tsarev Brod Pet Nat Riesling 2023
Regular price £21.95A natural, beautifully golden sparkling wine. The aroma is dominated by apple, quince and citrus fruit notes. Medium-bodied, with a pleasantly fresh fruit-forward finish.
Country: Bulgaria
Region: Danube Plain
Grapes: Riesling
ABV: 11,5 %
Food Match: Aperitif, shellfish, salads, fish & chips.
Waas Semillon - Skin Macerated 2024
Regular price £12.95Textured and delightfully sippable, this orange wine is incredibly accessible, immediately greeting your senses with aromas of ripe peach and apricot. Naturally fermented and macerated on the skins with twice-daily punch downs to increase flavour and texture, before being put through a basket press. Once pressed, this juice is left to settle in tank before being transferred to concrete eggs and flexcubes, then into bottle. This is all about marrying the technique of skin maceration with brilliant drinkability to give a South African wine that’s textured and delicious.
Country: South Africa
Region: WO Paarl
Grape: Semillon
ABV: 12,5
Style: Orange, Natural, Vegan
Anne Santi Raspato Rosé Pet Nat 2023
Regular price £22.95As a naturally petillant/sparkling wine, this has been bottled before the primary fermentation is complete, so the fermentation process continues in the bottle to produce a natural spritz.
Francesco Anne Santi's family has been farming for generations, but she decided to turn her stables into a wine cellar and a new business was started.
Country: Italy
Region: Umbria
Grapes: Sangiovese, Aleatico
ABV: 11.5%
This artisanal wine is made from Sangiovese and Aleatico grapes sourced from Francesco’s land in the Valnerina Valley in Umbria, refermented in the bottle in a semi-sparkling rose style. Uses the award winning Mekano closure using reclaimed plastic, for this colourful and innovative packaging.
Slightly cloudy with an orangey-pink hue. A delicate spritz with fine well-lasting bubbles for a Pet Nat. Flavours of green apple, white peach, unripe melon give the mouth a blast of freshness whilst a touch of biscuit character adds complexity. Much cleaner and less funky than you would expect from a Pet Nat.
Angus Paul White Blend ‘Orange Wine’ 2022/24
Regular price £18.95This delightful orange wine is made of mostly Muscat with a touch of Semillon. It makes for a beautifully fresh and bright wine with bold notes of apricot, candied lemon and a touch of sea salt and nuts for that lovely fresh bite. The 10 days on skins gives a chewy wine gum notes with fine tannin to coat the palate and an oxidative nutty finish. Fresh and complex, making a fantastic gastronomic South African wine.
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Muscat (89%)
Semillon (11%)
ABV: 13%
Food Match: Oysters or Japanese cuisine
Stellenbosch, this famous region, is 30 miles north east of Cape Town yet still close enough to the ocean to benefit from cool maritime conditions. These beautiful vineyards are dominated by scenic mountains and the region is home to some of the Cape`s most famous and influential wine estates. The most noted and important vineyards are located on the prized slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain. This small and highly rated sub-zone has fantastic terroir and is where many of South Africa`s top red cuvees are produced.
Angus Paul had their first vintage in 2020, creating wines with a focus on South African Heritage, using Chenin, Muscat and Pinotage soon expanding with Cinsault. The wines are made with minimal intervention to make quality wines that truly express the varieties characteristics. The labels are inspired by the ‘Age of exploration’ when the South African wine industry was founded, with graphics of superstitious tales from exploratory sailors.
Gilda Red by Tiago Teles 2022
Regular price £24.95A delicious, medium-bodied, rustic yet smooth red made with native grapes Alfrocheiro and Baga. On the palate there are notes of stewed red berries, red fruit leather, spice and earth.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisbon
Grapes: Alfrocheiro and Baga
ABV:13.5%
Tiago Teles Raiz Orange 2019
Regular price £26.95The long maceration brings balance to the natural intensity of Loureiro grape, amplifying it's salty profile.
Country: Portugal
Region: Minho
Grapes: Loureiro
ABV: 12.5%
Uncondemned White Ourem Quinta do Montalto 2021
Regular price £18.95Superb. Organically farmed, vegetarian white from Lisbon. A field blend of old vines mainly Fernao Pires white. Golden yellow colour. On the nose shows notes of apricots and honey, vegetable and sweet spice. Medium bodied with great texture. Fruity and spicy on the palate, with a long finish.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisboa
Grapes: 90% Fernão Pires, 5%Arinto ,
5% other indigenous varieties
ABV: 14.5%
Castelo Rodrigo Tinto 2021
Regular price £15.95Very dry, notes of 90% cocoa chocolate and aniseed.
Concrete
Country: Portugal
Region: Beiras
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Rufete, Marufo, Touriga Franca
Natural
kept in tank for 2 winters
unfiltered
750m above sea level, plateau, unique micro climate for Portugal.
Tiago Teles Raiz Natural Red
Regular price £24.95Gorgeous, natural, silky red made from native Portuguese grapes.
Country: Portugal
Region: Bairrada, Alfrocheiro from Quinta de S. Mateus
Grapes: Alfrocheiro and Baga
ABV: 14%
Soil Type: Clay-Limestone
Iona Solace Syrah 2020
Regular price £35.95Red berry fruit, full of spice, white pepper and floral notes. Supple, intense palate with fine tannin matched by plenty of fruit.
Country: South Africa
Region: Elgin
ABV: 14%
Grapes: Syrah
Food match
Braised lamb and blue cheese, pecorino with rosemary and sundried tomato gremolada!
At 420m above sea-level, set high above the picturesque Elgin Valley Andrew Gunn founded Iona. It is here overlooking the Atlantic ocean that he has secured some of the coolest vineyards in the Cape.
Zavec Brothers Kugl Red 2020
Regular price £19.95This ruby red wine is juicy, fresh and floral on the palate with delicate cherry aromas. Forest fruit on nose, blueberry, round tannins, full bodied with a long finish of saltiness
and minerality.
Country: Slovenia
Region: Štajerska
Grapes: 50% Pinot noir,
50% Blaufrankisch
ABV: 13%
Food Match: Charcuterie and hard cheeses.
Projecto Guapos Anthus Pet Nat NV
Regular price £21.00Pet Nat is low intervention sparkling wine , traditionally cloudy, unfiltered and left to do its own thing. This little beauty is a light, zippy, refreshing sparkler with a crown cap. No added S02!
Stunning.
Country: Portugal
Region: Vinho Verde
ABV: 11.5%
Grape: Alvarinho, Loureiro
Food match: great with Korean flavours and Japanese sushi
Teliani Valley Winery 97 Kakhuri No8 Orange Wine 2020
Regular price £15.75From Teliani’s more experimental ‘Winery 97’ project, this amber wine is a blend of four varieties that you can’t pronounce – luckily the rich dried fruit and nutty flavours and long dry refreshing finish are much easier to get your mouth around! Don't chill it, you'll just bring the tannins forward at the expense of the lovely flavours - serve cool, not cold!
Beautiful amber, golden coloured wine. Aromas of vanilla,tropical fruit, ripe stone fruit, with hints of orange zest and orange peel. On the palate, lovely dried fruit (apricot) flavours with nutty hints. The finish is fresh with soft, grippy tannins.
Country: Georgia
Region: Kakheti
Grapes: Rkatsiteli, Kakhuri Mtsvane, Khikhvi and Kisi
ABV: 12.5%
Food Pairing: Kakhuri N8 is a The wine pairs especially well with fish dishes and cheeses. Serve cool, not cold.
A blend of 4 Georgian indigenous grape varieties – Rkatsiteli, Kakhuri Mtsvane, Khikhvi and Kisi, harvested in Kakheti, east Georgia. Grapes are exclusively hand selected and only the highest quality, fully ripe grapes are used for production. The wine is made using old Kakhetian traditional winemaking method with skin contact. Fermentation on skins takes place for 7-10 days, once the fermentation is finished the grape skin remain with the wine for 6 months.
Read all about Penny's recent trip to the cradle of wine, Georgia in her blog here.
Cozs Pop White 2022
Regular price £24.95A vibrant, light and fresh low intervention white from local varietal Vital.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisboa
Grapes: Vital
ABV: 13.5%
COZs is a partnership between two Portuguese wine grape growers, Tiago Teles (Gilda, RAIZ) and António Marques-da-Cruz (Quinta da Serradinha), that started in 2015, in a 60-year-old vineyard of the Baga variety. In 2017, acquired the historic Vinha da Pena in Serra de Montejunto – a limestone formation from the Jurassic period, located 15 km from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Lisbon region. Pioneers in the introduction of organic agriculture as well as new concepts of pruning and soil fertilization in the Serra de Montejunto, we initiated an important transformation of practices and mentalities in mountain viticulture.
Adami Valdobbiadene DOCG Prosecco Superiore Rive di Farra di Soligo 'Col Credas' 2023
Regular price £27.95Straw yellow in colour. Concentrated, persistent mousse. Generous on the nose, intense and well balanced with delicate white flower notes, such as wisteria and acacia blossom, with notes of green apple and pear. Very dry 'brut' in style with only 4g/l residual sugar, with crisp acidity on the palate, very dry yet richly-flavoured, with a long stoney finish.
Region: Veneto, Italy
Grapes: 100% Glera
ABV: 11.5%
Food Match: This would work throughout a meal, but goes best with fleshy white fish dishes.
Cirò Bianco Tenuta Del Conte 2022
Regular price £24.95Yellow - orange in colour, elegant and bright with a nose of sourdough bread. Dry, cool and well-balanced with a complex, refined, umami aftertaste. Skin contact wine at it's very best.
Country: Italy
Region: Cirò, Calabria
ABV: 12.5%
Grapes: Greco
Food match: Monk fish wrapped in pancetta or pork belly.
The Cirò DOC is a picturesque corner of the Mediterranean, along the Ionian coast, in the eastern foothills of the Calabria region, a large peninsula that forms the toe to Italy’s boot. The Parrilla family, who own and run Tenuta del Conte, have been making wine here for four generations, the latest of which to take over the estate are Mariangela, Giuseppe, and Caterina.
In 2011 Mariangela Parrilla took over as winemaker. Mariangela takes a philosophical approach to winemaking, with the aim to let these traditional indigenous grape varieties speak for themselves and their terroir. Her wines are all organic, no herbicides or chemicals are used at any stage of the production process, she opts for spontaneous fermentations using indigenous yeasts, no filtration, and solely stainless-steel and bottle aging. Taking each wine vintage by vintage she lets them evolve and age “according to their own natural rhythm”, making each wine unique. This could be just one year in bottle before release or over 10 years. Not only does she capture the unique character of the grape variety but that of the vintage it's from too.
Together with a handful of other wineries in the area, Mariangela is part of “The Cirò Revolution”, a group formed to promote and protect their territory’s identity. They are dedicated to organic viticulture and minimal intervention winemaking, they make traditional wines, in homage to their ancestors, from native grape varieties.
Guerila Barbera Selection 2019
Regular price £35.50Biodynamically farmed, no added sulphites(or natural, if you prefer) limited production wine. Intense garnet red colour with violet hues. It displays varietal characteristics of Barbera. Very complex aroma and flavour of ripe blackberries, forest undergrowth, plums, liquorice, graphite. A rich, full body with an exceptionally long aftertaste and pleasing freshness.
Country: Slovenia
Region: Primorska
Grapes: Barbera
ABV: 14.5%