Germany/Austria

A lighter expression of this grape, featuring green herbs, bright blackberry fruit, and a slight tomato peel quality. Domink and Gerald met in the cellar of famed winemaker Franz Weninger, became fast friends, and subsequently bought an old garage winery.

Martin Arndorfer is known for making beautiful, classically styled Austrian wines, but he also has a new series of naturally focused experiments; 3 different wines, to be exact, each named after one of his daughters. The Zweigelt is whole cluster and the

Claus calls this wine his “Burgenland Nouveau” – it’s young and fresh and dangerously gulpable. Serve this wine with a slight chill, and watch it disappear. Juicy, dark cherry and brambly berries with a touch of earth and a beautiful, satiny texture.

This is a lovely expression of Cab Franc, with characteristic berry and pepper notes, but with a lighter, livelier body thanks to a shorter skin maceration. Think Cru Beaujolais. Engel Auf Erden translates to “Angel On Earth”, presumably a reference to ho

The mysterious Brutal cabal strikes again!!! Christian’s label used to only be available in mags, but he’s since relented, giving us the benefit of not necessarily saving this one for a natty wine jamboree (but that would certainly still be an appropriate

Christian refers to the making of this wine as “pink maceration”; only a light, delicate press is done to the grapes, resulting in that no-mans-land between dark rosé and light red. He only produced one 3,000-liter barrel of this wine in 2019.

This wine is the definition of glou glou; it’s in a liter, it’s juicy but dry, has singing acidity, and is just delicious. Don’t over think it! The perfect summer red (almost rosé, even). Andi began making wine in 2004, and he’s quickly become an importan