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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March is here with the promise of new life with longer days and the first steps towards spring. And with being host to International Women's Day and Mothering Sunday, what better opportunity to put together a case celebrating but a few of the incredible women of the wine industry.

White wine

Still Life, Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand

Ashley Barrowman gained wide experience working with some of our favourite producers around the world; Vino di Anna in Sicily, Patrick Sullivan in Australia, Domaine Labet, Jean-Jacques Morel et al.

Still Life Sauvignon is a classic Marlborough Sauv but with a bit more elegance and restraint than has become the norm (and we like it for that!) Still Life is a winery using organically or biodynamically grown grapes from around New Zealand, run by Ashleigh with Dan Barrowman, founder of NZ natural wine importer Wine Diamonds. Their aim is to make regionally typical, varietally true, affordable, and delicious wines.

Producer          - Ashleigh Barrowman
Country            - New Zealand
Region              - Marlborough
Variety / Blend - Sauvignon Blanc
Wine Style       - White Wine
Farming            - Organic 
Vegan

Testalonga, Mielie, Swartland, South Africa

Craig and Carla Hawkins' wines seem to get better with every vintage. They make beautiful, poised, satisfying and utterly lovely wines from low yielding vines mainly growing on granitic soils in Swartland. Often using techniques including whole bunch ferments, extended skin contact and old oak foudres, with just a touch of sulphites at bottling, these are lovely, almost delicate wines that are a million miles from the stereotypical blockbuster South African wines you may be used too.

Pronounced "Mee-Lee", a Miele is a corncob in Afrikaans, a staple food in South Africa and also the nickname for Craig and Carla's daughter, Camilla.

A new cuvée made exclusively for the UK. 100% Chenin from two parcels of vines, one of them planted in 1961, the oldest Craig works with.

Producer           - Testalonga
Country             - South Africa
Region               - Swartland
Variety / Blend - Chenin Blanc
Wine Style        - White Wine
Farming             - Organic
Vegan        
Low Sulphates

Rosé

Celler Capçanes, Mas Donis Rosat, Montsant, Catalunya, Spain

The village of Capçanes lies in the Montsant region of Tarragona and it’s fair to say Montsant is giving its neighbouring Priorat a run for its money and the wines of Cellar de Capçanes is most certainly in that race. Anna Rovira is the current Winemaker and Technical director for the coop and recently and was recently awarded 'Best Winemaker of the Year 2022, in red wines' by German magazine selection-online.de. This wasn't her first award and is unlikely to be her last...
The wine is produced using the saignee method which means the juice is run from (or bled) from the red wine tanks, this means the juice has had skin contact with some very big flavours and this is definitely noticeable with this wine.
Rose-violet in colour, vibrant fruit flavours of strawberry and raspberry. Perfect for a hopeful springtime picnic

Producer          - Celler de Capcanes
Country            - Spain
Region              - Catalunya
Appellation      - Montsant
Variety / Blend - Garnacha, Syrah
Wine Style        - Pink Wine
Farming            - Organic
Vegan

Red wine

Judith Beck, Zweigelt, Burgenland, Austria

We don't like playing favourites too much at Iron and Rose, but I'm sure you've heard us bang on about Judith Beck enough to tell that we're fans. Her wines always delight with their balance, elegance and drinkability. As she says, they go for complexity over opulence, enjoyableness over power. Located in Burgenland in eastern Austria the climate is strongly continental but the vineyards are particularly influenced by the Neusiedlersee, a huge lake that tempers the climate and stores warmth from the long summer sunlight hours.

Producer           - Judith Beck
Country             - Austria
Region               - Burgenland
Variety / Blend - Zweigelt
Wine Style        - Red Wine
Farming            - Organic / Biodynamic
Vegan    

Les Vignerons d'Estezargues, Les Oliviers, Southern Rhône, France

When other co-ops were chasing volume and low cost, Estezargues went for quality and converted to organic viticulture. Since 2021 the coop has been led by Armelle Rouault (CEO & winemaker) and Anna Tyack (Sales Director) and are currently pushing towards having the entire cooperative to be certified organic with currently around three quarters of their surface certified and the rest being very much on their way. We love this quote from an interview with Armelle referencing the conversion. “Take breastfeeding, for example: it went out of fashion for a while in favor of formula, but now society has once again accepted the old truth that nature has all the resources. And I love to see the wine world going back to this balance as well.”

This wine is A brilliant Côtes du Rhône that offers great value, generous ripe fruit and a delicate touch of spice and white pepper.

Producer           - Les Vignerons d'Estezargues
Country             - France
Region               - Southern Rhône
Appellation        - Cotes du Rhône
Variety / Blend  - Grenache, Syrah
Wine Style         - Red Wine
Vegan

Familia Pacheco, Monastrell, Jumilla, Spain

As the song says, it’s a family affair. With Elena Pacheco at the helm aided by her mother, sisters and children, this small producer in the arid Jumilla region, directly inland from Benidorm, makes wines that are full of sunshine and warmth but retain amazing freshness and life. Low density Monastrell vines planted on limestone soils at 350 to 700m a.s.l. It is perfectly suited to the climate give a wine that has aromas of red berry fruits and roses and a rich, smooth palate. Delicious with tapas, paella, or meaty white fish.

Producer          - Familia Pacheco
Country            - Spain
Region              - Murcia    
Appellation      - Jumilla
Variety / Blend - Monastrell
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.

Vineyard pictured - Celler de Capçanes, Montsant, Spain