Marquette, Petite Perle & Frontenac Noir, Magog, Quebec | Pinard’s Frangin is the platonic ideal of a crunchy light red, the easy kind of chillable summer red we spend our whole lives looking for, frighteningly smashable but not without a secret complexity, like meeting a person with a crazy and unknowable backstory that they never make a big deal out of, they’ll just occasionally drop an “this one time I was hitchhiking through Sweden and I learned how to cast a love spell using deer fur & a chicken bone” into casual conversation and you’re like “oh cool— wait WHAT?” Frangin is naturally fermented in whole-bunches using semi-carbonic maceration, giving it lifted & concentrated skinny red fruit energy, raspberry seed & hibiscus juice. Aged for six months in barrel, undergoing malolactic fermentation, then bottled without fining, filtration, or added sulphur. Frangin is the perfect accompaniment to getting into some low-key trouble in the style of your Swedish hitchhiker friend, grab a bottle and leave your phone at home. Scrappy and kinetic, with zingy acidity and flavours of English cherry Coke (which has more of a currant-y vibe than North American), tart cranberry, & wood shop in the middle of nowhere. Pairs perfectly with blood red lipstick, Hawaiian pizza & a cool lake dip.

Riesling, Similkameen Valley, British Columbia | Undoubtedly one of the hottest natural wine projects to come out of British Columbia, Scout’s Riesling was the first to make a splash in the natural wine world – like all of their wines, so beautiful, luscious & texturally vibrant! Grapes were gently pressed into neutral barrels where it underwent a long, 10 month spontaneous fermentation, followed by 18 months of aging on the lees and bottling without fining or filtration. Shimmering and ephemeral like a heat mirage on hot, sunny day, lime blossom, Sprite, grapefruit pith, salty, crystalline minerality, Pop Rocks energy, Pikachu acid & a tart, green apple finish. Cares less about Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse and more about bell hooks’ All About Love, and rightly so.

Frontenac Gris, Noir, Blanc & Friends, Prince Edward County (PEC), Ontario | The second iteration of our custom collar with Trail Estate! We love hybrids, non-European grape types that naturally thrive in our humid and freezing environment (lol welcome to Ontario) with little to no sprays (even organic and biodynamic viticulture use sprays!). Though traditionally thought of as less serious, the tide is shifting fast and this starry-eyed snack from a picturesque Ontario growing season shows why. Accomplished winemaker Mackenzie Brisbois, brings us minimal intervention wines from PEC with a light-hearted nature, stocked with hybrids galore! A blend of the hybrid pop-star that is frontenac (including gris, noir and blanc) makes up 63% of the blend with 21% acid-forward riesling, 10% aromatic gewurztraminer & 7% body-builder cab sauv rounding out the performers. The frontenac grapes grow at the Plainfield vineyard, which resides on red clay soils and is located north of Belleville – a sunny pocket of land next to a small body of water, perfect for late summer ripening. Mainly implementing carbonic maceration means this juice rocket-soars across your palate and crash lands into an ocean of glee. Candied tangelo, cassia bark, maraschino cherries soaked in citric acid & Lord Finesse saying “…funk soul brother…”. Pour alongside any and all SNACKS ;)

Free pick up at our shop (1247 Dundas Street West) or delivery across Ontario in 2-5 business days for $10 - $20 flat rate depending on region. We offer free delivery for M postal codes over $150, and over $250 in the rest of Ontario.* Please note we do not deliver on weekends. 

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