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. 

Offered at a discounted price, it is three banging bottles 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.

Subscribe for regular deliveries and save even further. Although the price of The Edit will vary according to the wines chosen each month, (this month it is £79.95) it will always be between £60 and £90 and by subscribing you'll save an additional £3.50 off each box set - enough to buy yourself a V60 pour-over coffee from PetitGlou to enjoy while you scan the shelves in Iron & Rose or relax after some intensive market shopping.

This month's edit features wines in part inspired by the Tropicalia art movement and in part by the change in seasons. A pet nat sparkling from the hillsides of Wales, a red from wild vineyards in the suitably named Valle de los Artistas in Chile, and a second red from one of Austria's leading natural producers, makers of Styria's "most delicate and nuanced" wines according to Simon J Woolf (The Morning Claret).

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 - 

Whinyard Rocks, Pet Nat, Powys, Wales

A Pet Nat from Powys! Whinyard Rocks is two people trying to make wine on a hillside in Wales.

James and Susan left behind London life, working as a scientist and at a sustainable food & drink startup respectively, for very rural Powys, after James had the wild idea of planting a vineyard on a slightly lower lying field on the family sheep farm. And just to make things even harder they followed through on their values and decided to make the wines as naturally as possible, farming regeneratively and making the wines with no additions, no fining or filtration, and using the naturally occurring yeasts for fermentation.

Mostly Solaris with some Ortega fermented on the skins for 9 days to provide a deep peachy, amber colour with ripe peaches following through on the nose. Lightly sparkling, low in alcohol at just 10.5% and incredibly drinkable. Excellent with pizza.

Unfined, unfiltered and fermented with indigenous yeasts with no added sulphur or any further additions!

Producer - Whinyard Rocks
Country - Wales
Region - Powys
Variety / Blend - Solaris, Ortega
Wine Style - Sparkling Wine

Farming - Regenerative Farming
Vegan      

Villalobos, Silvestre, Carignan 2019, Valle del Colchagua, Chile

100% carignan from a totally wild wineyard in the Colchagua Valley. The vines grow side by side and sometimes up and intertwined amongst a biodiverse wilderness of native flora and fauna which work together keeping the vines pest and disease free without the use of any chemical pesticides. They're unpruned and unirrigated and generally left to do their own thing.

Wild and fruity, with aromas of black fruits, most notably of macqui berry aka the chilean wineberry. Velvety soft and round with delicate tannins. Unfined and unfiltered.

Goes well with white meat, fish or some french cheese

Producer - Villalobos
Country - Chile
Region - Valle del Colchagua
Appellation - Lolol
Variety / Blend - Carignan
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Biodynamic / Organic
Vegan

Weingut Muster, Zweigelt vom Opok, Steirerland, Austria, 2018

"To fundamentally change things, you must see the world through different eyes." Maria and Sepp Muster farm 10 hectares of vines in Styria, southern Austria, biodynamically, in tune with nature. Their wines are precise, elegant and fabulous.

The Muster's vineyard work has been an inspiration to many, and their minimal intervention winemaking methods they adopted in the 1990s, and have been developing ever since, broke away from the overtly (excessively?) technical methods prevalent at the time.

This red, made from Zweigelt, is vivid and bright with flavours of wild cherry and plum. 

Producer - Weingut Muster
Country - Austria
Region - Steirerland (Styria)
Variety / Blend - Zweigelt
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic / Biodynamic   
Vegan

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!