The Edit - Robin's picks for this month - a three bottle box set. August 2026.

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 2016. 

In August we're making like we're on Ferragosta, the Italian holiday when the nation takes to the beaches or the hills for a some relaxation, some feasting and some family time. Our  Edit this month has wines from near the coast of Tuscany, the Dolomite Mountains of Trentino Alto Adige, and the beautiful, wine-rich island of Sicily.  

Arianna Occhipinti, SP68 Bianco, Terre Siciliane, Italy, 2025
Who - Arianna Occhipinti
Where - Vittoria, Sicily, Italy
What - Orange Wine - Zibibo (Muscat d'Alexandria), Albanella
When - 2025
How - Organic / Biodynamic, spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, fifteen days maceration with skins, unfined, minimal sulphur, vegan

You’ll know about our slight obsession with Sicily at Iron and Rose, and the amazing wines and food that come from that beautiful island. You may not know about my secret, slightly obsessive, fandom of Stanley Tucci. (Not so secret now I guess!) Mix those two together into a TV series, Searching for Italy...

In the episode in the first series set in Sicily, Stanley went to interview Arianna Occhipinti whose wines I fell head over heals with back when I first tasted them on a visit to Sicily in 2016. We’ve been selling and drinking them ever since. 

Arianna Occhipinti got involved in wine at the young age of sixteen, working with her uncle Giusto at COS, in Sicily, but stands in no-one's shadow now making wine which in her words, "in its harmonies and roughness, talks about the land where it comes from and also about me. "

It is tropically aromatic and light and very low in sulphates. Grown in the unique soils and climate of southern Sicily. Enjoy served chilled with seafood pastas, fresh cheeses, grilled vegetables. 

Tenuta Dornach, Louis Bianco, Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy, 2023
Who - Patrick Uccelli, Tenuta Dornach 
Where - Salorno, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
What - White Wine - Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay
When - 2023
How  - Biodynamic, spontaneous fermentation between stainless steel and barrel.

In the far north of Italy, where the mountains rise up around the Adige river valley, close to the border with Austria, the wines take on a distinctly different style - pure, clean, refreshing as mountain air. They are no lightweights though. Plenty of sunshine ensures the wines have weight and texture to balance out the fruit. This wine, made by Patrick Uccelli and his wife Karoline, a biologist who looks after the vines, is from a tiny estate the couple started in 2008. A blend of Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay, it is delicious with cheese, salumi and fish.

I Mandorli, Vino Rosso, Tuscany, Italy 
Who - I Mandorli
Where - Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
What - Red Wine - Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
How - Biodynamic, Vegan. A blend of Sangiovese, planted on north east facing slopes, with a small amount, around 15%, of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc from south facing vineyards overlooking the island of Elba, soils rich in schist and minerals. Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, 10 days maceration in 30hl concrete vats followed by 12 months maturation in concrete. Unfined, unflitered and low sulphites. 

I Mandorli was created in 2002 when Paola's family bought some land near the Tuscan coast near Suvereto, a small village between Bolgheri and Piombino. Paola's father enlisted the help of Andrea, a winemaker with a great depth of experience working with biodynamics at other producers, to plant vineyards and start the winery. Their location, near the sea and surrounded by natural mediterranean vegetation and cork forests, the powerful sun, as well as their respect of the soils and nature, leads to wines that have a strong mediterranean character, full of fruit but with a lovely savoury edge and lift.

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