Dog Days (Chilled Reds)
The Dog Days of Summer are upon us! The perfect weather for chilled reds. These are refreshing and delicious wines that you must experience to enjoy!
Angelo Negro Rosso
Grapes: Brachetto
Place: Piedmont - Italy
Process: Cryo( Color)-maceration for 24 hours. native yeast fermentation. Floating Cap for 10 Days.
Stainless steel for 5+ months on the lees of Arneis with regular battonage.
Bottling: unfiltered; unfined
Family: Since 1670, the Negro family has been cultivating vineyards in the hills of the Roero and realizing the viticultural potential of this relatively undiscovered subregion of Piedmont. In that same year, two of the estate’s most cherished vineyards—Perdaudin and Prachiosso—were first planted. Boasting some of the most desirable vineyard sites in the Roero, Negro in an indisputable legend of the area. In fact, Giovanni Negro, the estate’s proud patriarch, vinified the first dry Roero Arneis on record in 1971.
Bottle: $25 | Glass: $11
Vin De Days Rouge
Grapes: Pinot Noir (92%); Pinot Meunier (8%)
Place: Willamette Valley - Oregon
Process: Vin de Day Rouge is fifty percent whole-cluster and fifty percent destemmed fruit, with the whole-clustered fruit on the bottom of each fermenter to allow for carbonic maceration. A floral, chillable red for the summer!
Family: Founded by winemaker and owner Brianne Day in the 2012 vintage, Day Wines is a producer of boutique, artisanal bottlings made from fruit sourced exclusively from a small group of Oregon growers who utilize Biodynamic, Organic and/or Sustainable vineyard practices. To create distinct expressions of our corner of the world, we focus on fruit harvested from the esteemed Willamette Valley to exotic varietals found in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley AVA.
Bottle: $29 | Glass: $13
Breaking Bread
Grapes: : Gamay
Place: Fountaingrove District- Sonoma - California
Process: This is the inaugural vintage of Gamay for Breaking Bread. Produced in traditional Cru Beaujolais style, this wine was fermented 100% whole cluster and aged in neutral French oak barrels to keep it fresh and lively.
This Gamay is grown in our tiny 1/3-acre vineyard planted in winemaker Erik Miller’s backyard. Farmed with a backpack sprayer and organic principles, this vineyard is part of the family. Erik’s two sons helped harvest the grapes in the fall and play in the vines the rest of the year. Located next to Santa Rosa Creek and within the Fountaingrove AVA, the climate is cool enough to maintain the grape’s natural acidity and allow for long hang time and slow ripening.
Family: ‘My interest in natural wine came about as I noticed a shift in our industry toward lower alcohol, food friendly and low intervention wine. When I decided to start Breaking Bread, it was very important to me, artistically, to build something completely different than my first conception, Kokomo. I wanted to be challenged in my craft as a winemaker and I also wanted to understand fermentation from a different perspective that could possibly play a part in future Kokomo vintages.’ - Erik Miller
Bottle: $33 | Glass: $13
Gulp/Hablo
Grapes: 100% Garnacha
Place: Spain
Process: Gulp/Hablo's red is 100% biodynamically farmed Garnacha from central Spain. Made in stainless steel and concrete with no further aging past fermentation, this Garnacha is fresh, light-bodied and very chillable, with notes of tart red berries and pepper.
Family: On the high-desert plateaus of La Mancha, the family-run Bodegas Parra Jiménez crafts natural wines from certified organic and sustainable vineyards. They turn an array of native and international grapes into wines of purity, structure, and elegance.
The Parra family has farmed the fields of La Mancha for generations, but it wasn’t until 1993 that they had a winery to their name. The region’s winemaking mainstream still viewed organic viticulture as an eccentricity back then—but that didn’t deter brothers Francisco, Javier, and Luis Parra. They settled in the town of Las Mesas outside Cuenca, and exported their first certified organic wine in 1996.
Bottle: $23 | Glass: $9