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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Ferragosto is a public holiday in the middle of August celebrated across Italy to mark the peak of the summer and roots back to the Roman times where a much appreciated break from hard agriculture work was granted by Emperor Augustus. It's all about family time, feasting and getting out to the country, the beaches or the mountains! Here's a case full of six naturally delicious bottles from across the nation to enjoy in true Ferragosto style.

White Wine

Ciu Ciu, Oris, Falerio DOP, Marche, Italy

Who - Massimiliano & Walter Bartolomei, Ciu Ciu 
Where - Offida, Marche, Italy
What - White Wine - Passerina, Pecorino, Trebbiano 
When - 2024
How - Organic, Stainless steel. Vegan

Massimiliano and Walter Bartolomei are the visionary brothers behind Ciu Ciu (pronounced choo choo), a name given as their Great Grandfather worked for the local railway company. Ciu Ciu is a mixed organic farm in the hills of the Marche in central Italy so as well as vineyards they produce olives, grains etc.

For wines they focus on traditional, local varieties that match the local climate, soils and foods. Falerio is made from a blend of three white varieties and has a good depth of flavour, orchard fruits and an attractive lift. 

Perfect to drink with some fresh pasta with a mushroom sauce or some grilled fish.

Vigneti Tardis, Fratelli Felix Bianco, Campania, Italy

Who - Jack Lewins & Bruno de Concillis, Vigneti Tardis
Where - Paestum, Cilento, Campania, Italy
What - White Wine - Fiano, Falanghina
When - 2025
How  - Organic / Biodynamic, short maceration on the skins, fermentation with wild yeasts in stainless steel, matured in stainless steel, unfined, unfiltered, minimal addition of sulphur at bottles, vegan

Jack Lewins, former sommelier and now the co-owner of Leroy in Shoreditch, and Bruno (Mr Aglianico) de Concillis are the two driving forces behind Vigneti Tardis. Cilento is a region of Campania around two hours drive south of Naples. While quite mountainous inland there is a strong coastal influence on the wines, particularly in the case of may of Vigneti Tardis wines which come mainly from a steeply sloping vineyard a few metres from the Mediterranean. While it may share the same varietals as nearby Taurasi and Avellino as a territory it differs greatly and in a region famed for its big, powerful wines Vigneti Tardis are offering a much more delicate alternatives.

The Fratelli Felix is a fresh blend of Fiano and Falanghina that's had a couple of days of skin contact giving it a yellow rather than orange colour and providing a little grip. Tropical fruit aromas of lychee and peach alongside citrus and honeysuckle. Bone dry with a chalky texture and a subtle saline edge.

Orange Wine

Cantine Rallo, Vicoletto, Sicily, Italy

Who - Vesco Family, Cantine Rallo
Where - Alcamo Hills, Sicily, Italy
What - Orange Wine - Catarratto 
When - 2025
How - Organic, fermentation with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel, 10% fermented on the skins for 12 days, blended, Unfined, Unfiltered, no added sulphites. Vegan

The Vesco family at Cantine Rallo really know what they're doing when it comes to making authentic wines that reflect the terroir but don't cost the earth (in either sense).

Vicoletto is made from Catarratto grapes grown in sandy soils high up in the Alcamo hills, where the altitude tempers the impact of the summer sun and mountain breezes cool the vines. The grapes ripen slowly over the summer and are hand harvested in the cool of the morning in early autumn then taken down to the winery in Marsala where they are gently pressed.

90% of the crop is fermented in a stainless steel tank without skins, just free run and pressed juice. The other 10% ferments on skins for 12 days, the "orange" portion. The two portions are then blended and bottled without filtering, fining or any added sulphur. 

Aromas and flavours of Sicilian citrus, grapefruit, white nectarine and mediterranean herbs. The texture is rich and round. A beautiful introduction to orange / skin contact white wines and delicious with seafood, anchovies or stuffed Sicilian sardines for example, or perhaps a ricotta filled pasta.

Pink Wine

Produttori di Manduria, Aka Primitivo Rosato, IGT Puglia, Itlay

Who - Produttori di Manduria

Where - Manduria, Puglia, Italy

What - Pink Wine - Primitivo

When - 2025
How - Sustainable / organic, couple of hours skin contact before pressing into stainless steel for fermentation, Vegan

Produttori di Manduria is a cooperative winery founded in 1932 but while it is historic it also very forward thinking, a shining light of how coops can be run for the benefit of everyone - its members, its customers and in this case the planet, farming beyond organic and using sustainable processes throughout the vineyards and winery.

Using Puglia's native Primitvo, this rosé is deep coral pink in colour. Full of red fruit flavours - ripe cherries, pomegranate, red apple, wild strawberries and raspberries as well as a touch of salinity. This juicy rosé pairs fantastically with spicy food but equally on its own, makes a beautifully refreshing drink on a Spring day.

Red Wine

Baglio Gibellina, Incanto del Sud, Frappato Terre Siciliane IGT, Italy

Who - Baglio Gibellina
Where - Sicily, Italy
What - Red Wine - Frappato
When - 2024
How  - Organic Practices, Stainless steel, Vegan

Baglio Gibellina monopolises the valley, characterising the landscape with rolling vineyards and prickly pear trees. Growing from old vines, Frappato grapes are planted on sandy soils, 200 - 250 metres above sea level.

Frappato gives a wine that is lighter, brighter and a bit fresher than the bigger Nero d'Avola reds of Sicily. Great with some salami or a pizza. Expect ripe red fruits, cherries and fresh herbs!

Casaretti, Bardolino Classico DOC, Veneto, Italy

Who - Giammaria & Stefano Casaretti, Azienda Agricola Casaretti
Where - Bardolino, Veneto, Italy
What - Red Wine - Corvina, Rondinella, Corvinone, Sangiovese
When - 2025
How - Organic, stainless steel, Vegan

Among the Morainic hills on the eastern shores of Lake Garda, Azienda Agricola Casaretti has been producing wines typical of the Bardolino region for over 100 years. Founded by Agostino, who learned viticulture and the art of vinification as a child but has since passed estate management to his son, Lorenzo who has since passed it on to his children Giammaria and Stefano in 2010. Alongside custodianship of the estate, they have been bestowed the same love, devotion and engagement with the vines as that of raising a child with the belief that 'The seeds for wines of highest quality are already sown in the vineyard'.

Bardolino is Valpolicella's flirty cousin, bringing a joyous explosion of fresh fruits, not too dissimilar to a Beaujolais Nouveau... best enjoyed with friends.

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