{"title":"Laurent Saillard","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWe are so freaking excited to share these show-stopping wines! We have long been utterly charmed by the powerfully delicious wines of Laurent Saillard.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSaillard worked as a chef in Brooklyn \u0026amp; NYC for many years before throwing it all away to become a dazzlingly talented winemaker in the Loire Valley; that classic cheffy meticulousness is all over his wines. Obsessive observation \u0026amp; constant care are his highest priorities in the vineyard, where everything is done by hand \u0026amp; without the use of chemical sprays. These wines are fine, precise and utterly delicious. The type of natural wine that will age beautifully - if you are more patient than us! - or be the exclamation point for a special meal or occasion. We can't wait to get these in your glass. \u003c\/h4\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"laurent-saillard-lucky-you","title":"'Lucky You!'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSauvignon Blanc \u0026amp; Chardonnay, Loire Valley, France \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eucky You indeed! Oldies but goodies Sauvignon Blanc \u0026amp; Chardonnay move to Brooklyn, get lightly tattooed, \u0026amp; have the sexiest messy ponytails you have ever seen. Lucky You is like falling in love with your best friend, a glass of house white wine in perfect punk rock heaven, a blend of 70% old vines Sauvignon Blanc \u0026amp; 30% Chardonnay. Grapes are whole cluster pressed into stainless steel, unfined \u0026amp; unfiltered with a minute amount of added sulphites. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eContinuing to grace us with a more mineral core than when we first met ‘Lucky You’, 2023 is acacia honey, bitter lime leaf, soft pear meeting wet stone and gauzy golden silk, a wet, resinous dank-ness \u0026amp; eating an apricot in a field of white flowers. Lucky You makes us crave a dimly lit bar in a major international city: marble countertops, white linen shirts \u0026amp; raw edge denim, phone number scrawled on a cocktail napkin in ballpoint pen. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laurent Saillard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41291458019506,"sku":"WINE-GWI-LAURENT-SAILLARD-LUCKY-YOU","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/7396\/2930\/files\/01_12_2024_062.jpg?v=1739646822"},{"product_id":"la-pause","title":"'La Pause'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGamay, Loire Valley, France\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sexed up gamay with a husky, throaty voice that really \u003ci\u003e does things\u003c\/i\u003e to you. You met La Pause at an art gallery \u0026amp; fell head over heels in lust after finding out they’ve published three volumes of experimental poetry that is actually, like, \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c\/i\u003e good. Now you’re all, “is it crazy that I want to tell La Pause I love them on our third date?” Yes, it is, but we totally get it: we’re in love with La Pause too. 40 year old gamay vines are grown on clay \u0026amp; limestone soil, elevage takes place for around eight months in neutral vats prior to bottling without filtration, resulting in a pure \u0026amp; straightforward expression of grape \u0026amp; terroir. It’s sort of like Loire Valley gamay started palling around with Northern Rhône syrah, managing to stay entirely true to itself while concurrently picking up a few of Syrah’s vocal tics \u0026amp; mannerisms subconsciously: it’s a smidge\u003ci\u003e meaner \u003c\/i\u003e than your average gamay, gamay in a beat up vintage leather jacket, though of course it’s still a sweetheart underneath, with a piping hot mainline of red fruit energy. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpiced plum, ziploc bag of Craisins, a room of scratch \u0026amp; sniff books, red liquorice overload.\u003c\/span\u003e But wait there’s more! Bouquet of dried violets! Beet juice reduction! Kitten’s tongue tannins! And last but not least, BIG limestone energy like stealing a rock from a vineyard and sniffing it alone in your hotel room later that night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laurent Saillard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41291461427378,"sku":"WINE-GWI-LAURENT-SAILLARD-PAUSE","price":62.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/7396\/2930\/files\/01_12_2024_048.jpg?v=1739646809"},{"product_id":"saillard-ca-se-discute","title":"‘Ça Se Discute'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003ePineau d'Aunis, Loire Valley, France\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePost up at a marble bar and fall in lust with this ruby-red romantic. The wines of Laurent Saillard are delicious and uniquely themselves. When we visited him in February, we were fortunate to get our hands on this SUPER TINY yield, after his area was hit by devastating frost. And at last, it’s here!!! This sultry blend of pineau d'aunis is like a tattooed Brooklyn chef reading Blake in the French countryside. That’s probably because Laurent himself opened one of NYC’s first natural wine restaurants, before returning home to make his own incredible wine in the Loire Valley. #Blessed by his meticulous chef-y demeanour, this beauty is lighter than previous vintages – chewing on a toothpick, cranberry juice tannins, red delicious apple on asphalt, blackberry gastrique, dry rosemary, pepper \u0026amp; pine bark. 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We had the pleasure to taste this earlier this year at Laurent’s winery and boy did it ever go straight to the TOP of our 2022 Chenin Charts(™). The young organic vines, a mere 10 years of age, are grown by Julien Moreau of Domaine de Cambalu (also in the Loire). The fruit is directly pressed (#PURE) before spending one year in amphora developing a gossamer curtain-like texture we would lick off of the floor just to experience.\u003cspan data-token-index=\"1\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePreserved lemon sorbet, slate waterfall, early spring summersweet clethra, soft arrowroot biscuit, spinach greenness \u0026amp; white strawberry pocky essence. 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Laurent Saillard, a NYC chef turned meticulous winemaker, makes wines so spirited and emotional that sometimes it can be a maddening experience to realize the bottle is done and there are no sips left. Take it from us and savour the seconds you have with this romantic \u0026amp; textured bottle, which feels like the chemistry between Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in the movie \u003cspan class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eBefore Sunrise\u003c\/span\u003e and all their instant magic, deathly intoxication of the ticking clock \u0026amp; weightless freedom in 90s Paris! 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Laurent’s wines are emotive, spirited \u0026amp; operated with a tireless (hello NY chef vibez) work ethic. A common Loire blend of earthy and floral gamay (80%), and mesmerizing and herbaceous grolleau (20%). The grapes are destemmed and see six weeks of maceration to lock in the luring aromatics that lead us to the tongue-cocooning tannins. \u003cspan\u003eViolet tinged, grandma’s tickle trunk, blackberry bush, lil smoke meets stardust, sliced green peppers, black rock bitters, black pepper skins and fallen grounds, thyme \u0026amp; a wild boar hair bristle tannin that brushes the kiwi skin acidity. \u003c\/span\u003eThrow in the river shallows to cool and enjoy on a rock while watching the dragonflies flutter past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laurent Saillard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43164186968242,"sku":"WINE-GWI-SAILLARD-PARTAGE","price":57.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/7396\/2930\/files\/07_19_23_60.jpg?v=1739645386"},{"product_id":"en-famille","title":"‘En Famille’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"0\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMalbec \u0026amp; Gamay, Loire, France\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMalbec through a Loire lens here to remind us, it takes a village, a community, a family. Laurent’s wines are emotive, spirited \u0026amp; created with a tireless work ethic and hope for the future. For this vintage, Laurent lost nearly his whole harvest to extreme weather and had to call on friends near and far to put together a vintage, making this is a fully négoce (purchased fruit) offering! The cavernous malbec (80%), aka côt, and wistful gamay (20% ) see one week of maceration, half whole cluster, half destemmed, layered together in a trifle-like fashion. The wine is then aged one year between sandstone amphora (a more recently introduced practice with some smaller earthen vessels made by a local pal!) and 500L old oak barrels for balanced roundness. Grape popsicle, mineral robes, a wisp of smoke, scraggly plum, wild blueberry handful, violet petals \u0026amp; herb garland. 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Laurent’s wines are emotive, spirited and, as of late, created out of determination in the face of climate instability and destruction by frost, hail or rain. 2023 was also a challenging, small vintage, but what remained is singing and we’re chuffed to offer Laurent’s top white wine ‘Blank’ for the very first time. Two versions of this wine exist, one a solera started in 2018, one a vintage rendition, and this is the vintage coming in BLANC HOT from 2023. Sun-shiney 70-year-old sauv blanc vines from Laurent’s parcel of the famed Clos Roche Blanche vineyard were hand harvested, direct pressed, then stashed away in 400 L barrels for one year. Gunshot on a spring morning in a silent film kinda reduction, vanilla cotton candy, lemon and strawberry juice freezie, cool blue slate \u0026amp; a chewable plushness that breaks away from the herd to leave us in a lengthy mineral lean-ness. 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Saillard wines are highly-consumable, spirited and, as of late, created out of determination in the face of climate instability and destruction by frost, hail or rain. 2023 was also a challenging, small vintage, but what remained is singing and we’re chuffed to offer the Scarlette for the very first time. This certified organic, domaine pineau d'aunis is plucked from it’s clay-limestone bed, and macerated whole cluster in wooden vats for 10 days to pull the cheeriest of textures and aromatics. FUN FACT! Only 1000 of these bottles exist, and we got 120! A devilish smile and flushed cheeks, red fruit gusher innards, cola nut, bark covered in moss kinda texture, fools gold, forsythia bush \u0026amp; pooling cave minerality. 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Laurent creates wines that are expressive, playful \u0026amp; driven by a tireless work ethic. In recent vintages his cuvées have been created out of determination in the face of climate instability and destruction by frost, hail or rain, leading him to rely on purchasing grapes from trusted growers. The seven year-old, uncompromising and romantic romorantin (sourced from Château de Montcrochet in Fougères sur Bièvre) used for ‘One Shot’ was direct-pressed and aged in amphora for 20 months to take this undeniably delectable final form. Strawberry-kiwi-oreo blended frozen yoghurt from yogen früz circa 2010, pebbly minerality, white Haribo gummy bear, saltyyyyy frangipane, white flowers \u0026amp; a serpentining cave system. 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Former NYC chef turned French winemaker Laurent Saillard’s 50-50 blend of inky, powerful côt and profusely youthful gamay is all at once concentrated \u0026amp; celestial, suave \u0026amp; affable – and frankly we are doe-eyed for it. When we need a reliably emotive and swoon-y wine, Laurent and his small-scale organic and biodynamic farm in Loire Valley ALWAYS delivers. Here, ‘La Valse’ is the kind of love potion that will turn even the crustiest cynic into an insufferable romantic after a single, highly slurpable, glass. Think Greaves strawberry jam, William Carlos Williams’ irresistible cold plums, occult shop oud, breath in the beet field, smooch on the ferris wheel \u0026amp; that question you always want to answer. 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