You, Me & This Summer
GWI
Imported through our agency, Grape Witch Imports. Our favourite producers & hottest deals.

You, Me & This Summer
GWI
Imported through our agency, Grape Witch Imports. Our favourite producers & hottest deals.
Chenin Blanc, Loire Valley, France
Chenin from the Loire is like butter from Ireland, and you haven’t tasted anything until you’ve tasted Irish butter! Laurent creates wines that are expressive, playful & driven by a tireless (hello NY chef vibez) work ethic. 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. Preserved lemon sorbet, slate waterfall, early spring summersweet clethra, soft arrowroot biscuit & white strawberry pocky essence. Drink while listening to ‘You and Me’ by Penny & the Quarters.
Pineau d'Aunis, Loire Valley, France
Post 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 & pine bark. Enjoy with charcoal grilled anything.
Grolleau, Gamay, Loire Valley, France
‘Un Été Partage’ means a summer together, and not-so-coincidentally we may just have the perfect red for your summer romances, be it a partner, pal or an ever-budding love affair with the one and only YOU. Laurent’s wines are emotive, spirited & operated with a tireless (hello NY chef vibez) work ethic. A common Loire blend of the mesmerizing and herbaceous grolleau (70%) to the earthy and floral gamay (30%). The grapes are destemmed and see six weeks of maceration to lock in the luring aromatics that lead us to the tongue-cocooning tannins. With depths reaching cold berries, grandma’s tickle trunk faintly smelling of her 40 year old perfume and iron chains, to heights of white pepper, pink guava nectar, kiwi skins, aloe pulp & stardust tannins. Throw in the river shallows to cool and enjoy on a rock while watching the dragonflies flutter past.
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