The Edit - Robin's picks for this month - a three bottle box set

The Edit is our monthly selection of what's exciting and drinking well, chosen by Robin, founder of Iron & Rose and still a wine obsessive. The three bottles selected change each month to reflect the season, the food we're enjoying, and often to introduce new arrivals. Three wines to introduce you to our world of natural wine, to encourage you to delve deeper, or for a treat to yourself or as a gift.

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Channel your inner Emily with this month's edit which features wines that embrace contemporary Paris chic: an Alsace pet nat, a Syrah from the Northern Rhône valley, and a deliciously moreish rosé from the Loire. Sylvie would approve. 

This box set contains three bottles, one of each of the following wines, made by inspirational producers, the kind of wines which inspired Robin to start Iron & Rose back in 2016 - 

Elisa Klur, Pet En L’air, Alsace, France

The Klur family has worked the land around Katzenthal since the 17th century but while they produce classic Alsace wines they are not hidebound by history. Clément Klur converted his small, 7 hectare domaine, to biodynamic viticulture and winemaking back in 1999, one of the first in the region to do so, and has built a naturally cooled, bioclimatic, grass-roofed cellar, constructed from packed earth.

This sparkling wine was made by Elisa Klur, the next generation of Klurs, using Riesling, Muscat and Pinot Noir grown on the granitic soils of grand cru vineyard Wineck Schlossberg. Made following the ancestral or petillant naturel method using just the naturally occurring, indigenous yeast for the fermentation and no added sulphites. It is disgorged to help prevent the wine being a little too explosive but watch out when you open it, it can pet*!

Pet en L’air is the epitome of natural sparkling wine. Pure juicy fruit, lively bubbles and deliciously drinkable at any time of day, from breakfast to bed time! 

*slang French for fart ;)

Producer - Clement Klur
Country - France
Region - Alsace
Variety / Blend - Riesling, Muscat and Pinot Noir
Wine Style - Sparkling Wine, Pet Nat
Farming - Organic / Biodynamic
Vegan, 
No added Sulphates

Rémi Sédès, Samplemousse, Coteaux d'Ancenis, Loire, France, 2023

Rémi is originally from Jura but, after studying agronomy, settled in the Loire with his wife whose family is from Nantes. Part of the joy of winemaking for Rémi is the opportunity to work in the outdoors, using Shire horses in the vineyards and doing a lot of work on his 5 hectares of vines by hand. He grows mainly Gamay, more usually associated with Beaujolais, though also planted widely in this part of the Loire where the granitic soils help control yields and produce wines with the capacity to age. 

Samplemousse is made by pressing whole bunches of Gamay slowly at a low temperature to extract a little colour but retain the fresh fruit character and lovely ripe pink grapefruit aromas and flavours. This deep coloured but dry rosé is a wonderful gastronomic wine, suiting a wide variety of foods, but also delicious as an aperitif!

Producer - Remi Sedes
Country - France
Region - Loire
Sub-region - Coteaux d'Ancenis
Variety / Blend - Gamay
Wine Style - Pink Wine
Farming - Organic
Vegetarian

La Ferme des Sept Lunes, Syrah, Northern Rhone, France, 2021

Jean Delobre is third generation winemaker at La Ferme de Sept Lunes, perched high up on a hill in St Joseph facing the cooling breeze from the South East. He has been practicing organic and biodynamic farming since 1997 and he is creating fresh wines with a real depth and pure, juicy.

The Sept Lunes farm is polycultural, with fields of grain, fruit trees, and everywhere wild flowers and grasses, a landscape bursting with biodiversity. 

Each vineyard plot is treated and vinified individually to try to capture the characteristics of each site, even if in the end the wines produced on each will be blended together. This is 100% Syrah, fermented in open concrete tanks on skins for twenty days, part destemmed, part whole bunch, followed by around 8 months ageing in concrete. Result, a dark fruited, supple red that is full of life.

Producer - Sept Lunes
Country - France
Region - Northern Rhone
Sub-region - St Joseph
Variety / Blend - Syrah
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic / Biodynamic
No added sulphur

The wines in this box set are available in limited quantities, so we may need to offer alternatives but these will be of similar price and equal value!