Notes from our natural wine shop in Nolita: the growers we love, what to cook with their bottles, and where they come from.
Ask five people in the shop what their favorite natural wine producer is, and you will get at least two answers of "La Sorga." We currently carry fifteen different bottlings from this…
Read the storyDomaine Matassa turns old Catalan vines outside a tiny hillside village into some of the most exciting natural wine coming out of Roussillon, wild and precise all at once. Here's a look…
Read moreRed wine doesn't have to sit at room temperature all summer. Some reds genuinely taste better cold, and a handful of the small producers we carry have basically built their whole style…
Read moreTakeout night doesn't need a plan. Grab a container, grab a bottle, done. But it does help to think about the wine by producer instead of by dish, because once you know…
Read moreFolk Machine Wine:There's a bottle we keep reaching for on the shelf that has a bunch of cameras drawn across the label, or sometimes lightbulbs, or something else that has nothing obviously…
Read moreMy love for the Jura is tainted by fear for this wine region It may seem that I am obviously following the hype by writing about a natural wine region that, 25 years…
Read moreThe LoireIf there’s one wine region I find myself constantly coming back to, it’s the Loire Valley. Stretching along France’s longest river, it’s not really a single “region” at all, it’s more…
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