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

I'm often asked what my favourite wine is. Which is of course an impossible question to answer. If I was being held over a cliff, held only by my ankles, I might admit that if I could only drink the wine from one country ever again that country would be Italy. (Which is a cheat answer really as surely no other country has such diversity of geography, grape varieties and wine making.) And if I could feel my socks slipping off and a long fall coming very soon, I might further reduce my choice to the wines of Northern Italy. I would still have access to an extraordinary diversity of wines. And then there's the food I could match them with...

This month's case celebrates the wines of Northern Italy and ranges from Piedmont in the east to the shores of Lake Garda and across to the border with Slovenia for a masterclass in the art of making skin contact wines with white grapes, aka orange or amber wines. 

Ca'Lojera, Lugana DOC 2024, Lombardy, Italy (white) Found on the southern shores of Lake Garda, Ca'Lojera estate features a 14th century palazzo which was built as a summer home of Veronese bishops. But legend has it that it was overrun by wolves, using it as their lair to protect Lake Garda's pirates. And it is from this legend the estate got its name, which in the Lombardian dialect means 'house of the wolves'. 

Ambra and Franco farm 18 hectares of vines influenced by the microclimate of the lake, mostly dedicated to local grape, Turbiana (Trebbiano di Lugana) which is most similar to Verdicchio from Marche. Yet this wine is more similar in style to a Soave but with more heft and body. It's expressive with bags of minerality, great acidity and notes of green apple and lemon pith. Worth trying with freshwater lake fish, for example trout or eel.

Producer - Ca'Lojera
Country - Italy
Region - Lombardy
Sub-Region - Lugana
Variety / Blend - Turbiana
Wine Style - White Wine
Farming - Organic  
Vegan    

Skerk, Ograde, Venezia Giulia IGT, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy (skin contact / orange) Azienda Skerk is found on the Carso plateau, equidistant between the Slovenian border and the gulf of Trieste by about 2.5km each way. Famous for its dramatic terroir of rocky and windy sites based on red soil or terrarossa, rich in silt and iron as well as pure limestone, it plays home to a microclimate that perfectly suits the cultivation of indigenous grape varieties such as Teran, Vitovska and Malvazia. 

Skerk's cellar is a breathtaking example of hard work and personality being entirely dug into the limestone like a cave, providing perfect conditions and a constant level of humidity and temperature.

Ograde is Skerk's masterpiece, a blend of native and international varieties, macerated with the skins for about 10-15 days in wooden vats, fermented with indigenous yeasts then left on its fine lees for 12 months in wooden barrels and stainless steel tanks. Blood orange, peach and some vegetal notes from the Sauvignon Blanc as well as the unmistakable aroma of the powerfully perfumed Malvasia. Fresh elegant, and perfectly balanced with a signature finish of grapefruit and yeasty notes and a pleasant tannic funk thanks to the wild fermentation.

Producer - Skerk
Country - Italy
Region - Friuli
Sub-Region - Carso
Variety / Blend - Vitovska, Malvasia, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio
Wine Style - Orange Wine
Farming - Organic
Vegan

Cascina Zerbetta, Barbera del Monferrato, Piedmont, Italy (red) Piedmont is not just about Nebbiolo but its other great red varieties, Barbera and Dolcetto do tend to be pushed to the corner a lot of the time, rather unjustly. Piedmont is also about Nutella for the good reason the hills are perfect for hazelnut trees. The pretty town of Alba is memorably perfumed by the Ferrero Rocher factory and, during the annual festival each autumn, truffles.

Paolo Malfatti has four hectares of vines and hazelnut groves in Monferrato, Piedmont. This Barberra is everything we love about northern Italian reds, a deep and dark with notes of ripe cherries and currants and a delicious mineral-rich body. Great with lasagne.

Producer - Cascina Zerbetta
Country - Italy
Region - Piedmont 
Sub-Region - Monferrato
Variety / Blend - Barbera
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic 
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.