Hello from the Caviste:
Happy Mother's Day weekend to all! It's been crazy fun for us here with all the events and visitors in our shop.

But we also want to take a pause and use Mother's Day as an excuse to say thank you, our customers, many of whom have become friends and supporters of the shop. We are grateful to be part of this community. Thank you!

We have more events coming your way - we hope to see your wonderful faces soon in the store.

TODAY - CHAMPAGNE AND BURGUNDY TASTING, Saturday, May 11, we welcome Ed Addiss in the shop who imports small French producers. Two grower champagnes, one burgundy, and one biodynamic southern France red made from 200-year old vines. 4:30-6:30, drop in, come learn a little history on pre-phylloxera grapes, terroir-driving champagnes, and classic burgundy style.

TUESDAY, May 14 - natural-wine focused importer, Steven Graf, will pour off-the-radar wines, one from Luxembourg, two from a southern Rhone AOC, Carainne, and one from Corbières in Languedoc-Roussillon. Steven's talent is finding young winemakers from slightly off-the-radar regions who are quietly becoming rising stars in the wine world.

Cheers!
 

Importer Visit
with Wine Traditions Ltd.
co-owner Ed Addiss

Champagne, Burgundy, Languedoc

TODAY! Saturday May 11 4:30-6:30pm
 
 $10 tasting fee*
(*waived with any featured bottles purchased)

Fresh Arrivals

Rosés, sparklings, Italian summer wines, and fun reds are all in the shop waiting for you and your weekend plans.

Tuesday May 14, 4:30-6:30pm

With Steven Graf

$5 tasting fee*
(*waived with any featured bottles purchased)

Steven Graf Imports focus on small, family run projects, with a passion for production and pursuit of the ‘new’ without omission of tradition. He is well known for his representation and long time partnership with Fifi Wines, a portfolio focused on natural wines from France.

“So much of what we are about in "natural" wine is breaking from form and tradition to tell new stories from new spots on the globe; [...] this is never more powerful than with a new variation of an old theme.”
 

L&R Kox | 'Cuvee Zero Dosage' Cremant | Luxembourg
This is a Chardonnay/Auxerrois blend from a small, female run estate in Remich, Luxembourg. The wines here are along the same latitude of the Pfaltz where we're seeing the climate get warmer, and making for bigger, riper vintages with more powerful fruit that can withstand not receiving a dosage.

Clos des Mourres | Pompette Blanc | France
Ingrid & Jean-Philippe Bouchet cultivate vines on 5-hectares in Cairanne, oriented on the northwestern slope of the Col du Débat.This is an equal parts blend of Grenache Blanc / Clairette / Bourboulenc. The Bouchets cultivate vines on 5-hectares in Cairanne, oriented on the northwestern slope of the Col du Débat.

Clos des Mourres | Pompette Rouge |France
Made from grapes Aubun / Counoise / Grenache / Cinsault from the vineyard La Tuile, vines planted by Ingrid’s grand-father in the 1980s.

Ledogar | AOC Corbières 'La Compagnon' | France
Mathieu and Xavier are two brothers in the fourth generation of winemakers. In the mid-90's, when the brothers took over, they began the conversion to organic and biodynamic practices. La Compagnon is 60% Syrah / Carignan / Grenache from vines planted in 1948 on red and grey clay on sandstone.