The Edit - Robin's picks for this month - a three bottle box set. November 2025.

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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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 201. 

We're coming over all traditional and retro in November, inspired by our favourite Thursday of the year, the release of Beaujolais Nouveau, the finest excuse for a harvest festival party we know. So for this month's edit we've chosen three French classics for The Edit. This being Iron & Rose we're not just buying for the fancy names of course, we've bought them because they are incredible expressions of place and time, and of the people who made them. 

Domaine Bernard Fleuriet, Sancerre Blanc Tradition 2023, Loire, France (white) Domaine Fleuriet is a farm growing grain and grapes biodynamically and making wine in a pure, non-interventionist manner, following a less is more approach but equally knowing exactly what to do and when to produce wines that are a true expression of place. A family affair, run by Bernard and his two sons, making new wave Sancerre focused on quality above all and recognising the individual characteristics of each vineyard sites and soil type. This wine, Tradition, is a blend from across different vineyard sites and is the domaine's intro wine. No lesser drink for that though, a beautiful expression of central Loire Sauvignon, a living wine, vibrant and characterful.

Producer - Domaine Bernard Fleuriet
Country - France
Region - Sancerre, Loire
Variety / Blend - Sauvignon Blanc
Wine Style - White Wine
Farming - Organic, Biodynamic 
Vegan 

Bois de la Gravette, Lucie Mançais, Idyllik 2022, Moulis-en-Médoc, Bordeaux, France (red) There's not a lot of Bordeaux at Iron & Rose for the simple reason that there's not so much that fits our vibe. As a region it seemed to lose its way in the 2000s with greedy pricing and unwise stylistic decisions: a swing to making big, highly alcoholic and extracted wines that appealed to certain American journalists but obliterated any notion of terroir.

Happily there are signs of life, metaphorically and literally. At the forefront of this renewal are growers like Lucie Mançais. Just in her twenties she must be one of the youngest wine growers in the Medoc and single-handedly works four hectares of vines, which are in conversion to organic farming. And, although her grandparents were involved in wine her parents were not, she nearly became a sports teacher instead. But the lure of working outdoors (and the fact that she loves driving a tractor!) led to a degree in viticulture and oenology and those four hectares of vines came to her by inheritance through her mother. 

Idyllik is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and has lovely pure fruit, a real vibrancy and brightness. While it certainly has typical varietal characteristics of Cabernet and Merlot, it has much more feel of a wine of the South West, juicy and dense, than the cedary, drily tannic reds often found in the Medoc. That it is in a slope shouldered bottle rather than the traditional Bordeaux shape also appeals to our anarchic nature!

Producer - Lucie Mançais
Country - France
Region - Bordeaux
Variety / Blend - Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic 
Vegan

Domaine la Calmette, Serpent à Plumes 2022, Cahors, France (red) La Calmette is a great example of the kind of producers we love to work with. While Maya Sallée & Nicolas Fernandez farm organically and biodynamically and make wine in a low intervention manner, which may be perceived by some as just avoiding work, what it actually means, when it is done well, is working a lot and staying acutely aware of the impact of everything that is done in both the vineyard, surrounding land and in the winery. The results are wines that are full of energy, balanced and very drinkable - naturally delicious.

The Serpent á Plumes is the juiciest of their wines. A gentle extraction of Malbec yet retaining its inky colour. A joyful yet complex expression of the grapes and the terroir, grown in Jurassic soils. Bursts of fruit and spice with a mineral edge.

Producer - La Calmette
Country - France
Region - South West France 
Sub-Region - Cahors
Variety / Blend - 90% Malbec, 10% Merlot
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic / Biodynamic
Vegan        
Low Sulphates

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!