This Month We're Mainly Drinking - six great wines to drink just now - a six bottle box set

A mixed case perfect for drinking right now…

The contents of our TMWMD case changes every month to reflect the season, the food we're cooking, and often to feature new arrivals.

Offered at a discounted price, it is six great 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.

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Subscriptions are managed by you so you decide when and how often you want to receive the case. You can take a break and pause a month or two, and you can cancel at any time. 

This February we're celebrating making it through January with a Northern Italian Carnevale. Expect classics from across the north as well as a Ligurian wild card, a white from Gaillac that we've all been enjoying recently and a romantic Spanish red to seal the case with a Valentines kiss.

Sparkling Wine

Casa Defra, Prosecco Col Doré, Frizzante, Veneto, Italy

Casa Defra is a partnership between Cielo, who have been established in Collio Berici for over 100 years, and Cantina Sociale Colli Berici and their expert winemaking skills. They hand pick the grapes, trim them and select them for the respective parcels of wine and all details from the vineyard are recorded and verified building on their 40 years of superb sustainability program.

This frizzante is everything you want, delicate fruits and and fine finish full of fun and frolicks.

Producer - Casa Defra
Country - Italy
Region - Veneto
Sub-Region - Collio Berici
Variety / Blend - Glera
Wine Type - Sparkling Wine
Vegetarian

White Wine

Produttori del Gavi, Il Forte, Gavi DOCG, Piedmont, Italy

Chateau Clement Termes, Blanc Sec, Gaillac, France - 

Gaillac is a an appellation just North East of Toulouse. Where the Atlantic influence meets the Mediterranean and where local varietals are still growing strong.

Chateau Clement Termes was first established in 1868 and has remained in the David family ever since. They have a strong sense of tradition and have kept making their wines with these local varietals as they have for generations.

Made from local varieties this is distinctly Gaillac in character. The primary grape is Mauzac Blanc, a floral grape with peachy flavours and grassy notes , it is then blended with Loin de l’Oeil which brings it’s fuller body - floral with notes of pear and exotic fruits. Lively and fresh but ample and round. Great with shellfish and crustacea.

Producer - Chateau Clement-Termes
Country - France
Region - South West   
Sub-Region - Gaillac
Variety / Blend - Mauzac, Muscadelle, Loin de l'Oeil  
Wine Style - White Wine
Farming - Sustainable
Vegan  

Red Wine

Agricola Gaia, Brich, Barbera Monferrato, Piemonte, Italy

Barbera can be found growing throughout Piedmont, and it's often what the locals choose to drink. And if in doubt, follow the locals…

But there are a few areas that really specialise in Barbera, one of which is Monferrato, where the cool of the rolling hills helps create the perfect climate to get the best out of the grape. The name “Brich” is derived from bricco, the Piedmont dialect word for hill top or crag, and this wine is made from 30 year old vines, growing high on the hillside, which have been in Fabrizio Luli’s family for generations. 

70% of the grapes are destemmed, 30% left whole bunch, with a 12 hour cold maceration to extract juice and colour, before a natural fermentation occurs. The wine is aged for 9 months in concrete. Bottled without being fined or filtered and with just a smidge of SO2. 

Aromas of dark, ripe blackberry flavours and summer pudding, generous and round, but with a lovely edge, a characteristic of Barbera, that balances the fruit and keeps it fresh. 

Drink it with pasta with a meaty sauce, some salumi or cheese and it is perfect with pizza!

Producer - Agicola Gaia
Country - Italy
Region - Piedmont
Sub-Region - Monferrato
Variety / Blend - Barbera
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic
Vegan    

Te Quiero, Red Field Blend, Castilla La Mancha, Spain

Castilla La Mancha is known for its mass production vineyards but in between these are little pockets of ancient old vines that have been kept out of pride or merely forgotten to be re-found at the right moment. This wine and its partner white are made from a blend of these “lost” vines. Te Quiero translates as “love you”, a suitable sentiment for a wine great for serving at parties and family events. It's a perfect bottle to have on hand to have a glass from with whatever you are having for dinner too!

Producer - Manzanares Coop
Country - Spain
Region - Castilla La Mancha
Variety / Blend - Field Blend
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic
Vegan

Il Torchio, Logorroico Rosso, Liguria, Italy - 

Right on the Ligurian, Tuscan border you find the little village of Castelnuovo Magra where Luigi Tendola's estate of olive groves and grape vines are nestled between woodlands and inside a basin of steep slopes. His estate was also home to a Torchio, a traditional olive press where all the local olive growers would come to process their oil. Initially the estate was focused on olives where the grapes were only made into wine for personal consumption and for local taverns but when Luigi's son, Giorgi took over he started taking the winemaking 'seriously'. Today the fourth generation is represented Gilda and her brother Edoardo.

Their Rosso is a blend of all the varieties grown on the Il Torchio estate including rare local grape Vermentino Nera and some more familiar friends such as Sangiovese, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. All hand harvested, destemmed and vinified separately each fermented with carbonic maceration before being combined for ageing in oak. Unfined, unfiltered and with no sulphites added along the way. 

Wild and smoky with crunchy red fruits and mediterranean herbs. 

Producer - Il Torchio
Country - Italy
Region - Liguria
Variety / Blend - Vermentino Nera and others
Wine Style - Red Wine
Farming - Organic  
Vegan    

This case contains one bottle of each of these wines. If any becomes unavailable it will be replaced by another wine of equal value.