Natural Wines Naples

09/12/2023

Finally a real Wine & Food bar in Naples!

02/04/2023

Take me to Miami…
(Naples pain, Miami gain)

01/31/2023

Please vote for us as Best Wine store in Naples today! Link in Bio. After clicking, just scroll down to ‘Wine Store’ & enter Natural Wines Naples & you’re done! Deadline is today … Mille Graz for all your support for over zee yrs! naturalwinestore

01/29/2023

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01/27/2023

Ode to Grandfathers… and Grandparents before them. A little more refinement perhaps, a lot more worldliness… but never a slip of pride of place. Mille graz the late great Joe Dressner for bringing us so many natural jewels...

The Foucaults’ swan song at Rougeard…

01/22/2023

A Different Kind of Wine Festival... -

In early February, hundreds will attend the very famous Naples Winter Wine Festival. The charity piece of the event is beyond commendable. Much of the wine, in my humble opinion, is a different matter. Festivals like these still embrace a declining wine world that values ‘wine scores’ ...

01/20/2023

New Arrivals…

1. Mosse Pet Nat Grolleau/Gamay... Raspberry seafoam.

2. Tissot thunder…Jurassicclassics. Zero zero.

3. FX Pichler …Kellerberg Ries & Grün. Wachau wunder.

4. Carbonic Sangiovese… so much ++ than a fruit bomb. Zero zero.

5. Gamay/Mondeuse/Pinot Noir/Poulsard/Chasselas… Bugey wild child. Double zero.

6. Not Uncle Tony’s Bardolino… False rosé?… too good for all day. Zero zero. (Big Tony would approve)….

12/21/2022

Holiday Hours & Vacation -

09/05/2022

Jimmy Nardellos w/ pasta rule! Fire engine red + sweet, not spicy. Blink & they’re gone so catch em if you see em (Red bells can work in a pinch) …chilled Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo for spiritual kinship.

09/02/2022

Mineral intensity w native oysters…Zesty currants w a lobster/cheddar Cobb…Sunset toast to wind down summer. ?

07/20/2022

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Clairette Blanc & Rosé, Carignan Noir & Blanc, Mourvèdre Noir & Blanc, Cinsault, Vermentino, plus 5 other grapes.

07/16/2022

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Pinot Noir. No added sulfites.

07/16/2022

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100% Monastrell aka Mourvèdre, aka Mataro.

07/16/2022

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Uva Rara, Barbera, Croatina, Pinot Nero, Riesling.

07/16/2022

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Sangiovese, Canaiolo, Colorino

07/16/2022

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100% Merlot Pet Nat. Bordeaux rarity.

07/16/2022

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07/14/2022

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06/04/2022

New arrivals…
Rosé all day done the natural way…
~Bojo Gamay…
~Dolcetto-Nebbiolo/Piemonte…
~Umbrian Sangiovese w/ stars…
toothsome/fresh, bursting/alive…

03/18/2022

Did you know that Arbois’ Domaine de l’Octavin was formerly named Opus Vinum, until Napa Valley’s Opus One sent them a threatening ‘cease and desist’ letter? Seems like Opus One, owned by $42billion market cap Constellation Brands & Bordeaux’ Baron de Rothschild, thought there might be some consumer confusion between a small Jura grower that farms with plant-based sprays like stinging nettle, dandelion extract and common horsetail while shunning the use of SO2, and OPUS ONE’s completely controlled, technology-dominant ~30,000 case production of something more akin to a manufactured beverage. Sorta like Coca Cola going after your local cold-pressed juice bar, imo. How anyone could compare Octavin’s playful Gnome labels with the staid, self-exalting label of OPUS One is beyond me. In any event, Octavin lives on in the hearts & souls of natural wine lovers across the world…while you can probably find OPUS in most beverage chains & even grocery stores where the idea of finding a bottle of Octavin ‘pur jus’ is even sillier than a brand’s conceit.

03/12/2022

i tre amici… new arrivals of Rabasco Montepulciano (Abruzzo)…
*Cancelli vyd Rosato & Rosso (appetizing & juicy). *Cuntaden vyd Rosso (darker w/ more sinew).
No temp control, no oenological additives, bottled w/out added sulfur & no filtration/clarification. Hommage to the past, view to the future…

01/30/2022

Asparagus+Grüner = Gút…

01/28/2022

NEW ARRIVALS… $ for $ can anyone pls explain what’s exciting about Boredough?

~Tschida Rosé of Cab Franc/Austria
~Weingut Schmitt Dornfelder/Portugieser/Rheinland
~Ochota Barrels Grenache/So. Australia
~Gut Oggau Zweigelt/Austria
~Le Dos d’Chat Ploussard/Jura
~Bizona Primitivo/Salento
~Danilo Marcucci Ciliegolo/Sangiovese/Umbria

01/23/2022

Saturday night is Bistro nite. Beaujolais is also a classic, and this one by Bojo native Thibault Ducroux has the requisite snap & crunch, but with body & depth usually found at a higher Cru level. Label buyers don’t like comparing Beaujolais to Burgundy, but basic Red Burg at twice the price rarely delivers this much quality & pleasure. The beauty of natural wine on overdrive…

01/22/2022

Good juices from my good friends … well at least some of ‘em… 🍇

01/19/2022

Our new Shopscot Sandy…give her an organic cheerio & she’ll sit on her tail for you… (not as easy as it looks)

01/16/2022

New age ‘Frascati’ from the Casteli Romani, volcanic soils south of Rome…pear ‘n spice & everything nice. One of those whites good enough for NY strip. Clarity+body+brisk…

12/31/2021

Surgeon General issues rare health advisory… stay home this weekend, drink betta… .verzelloni

12/25/2021

Caponata Cabernata…it’s a tang thang…

12/25/2021

Might seem strange but we Itralians like Foccacia w our pasta… occasionally wine …

12/18/2021

For all the Pineau d’Aunis piquant red fruited, white peppered wet stone heads out there… you/we know who we/you are…

12/17/2021

What’s new is old, what’s old our tireless teacher… the rich, boundless pageantry of real wine…
*Red Champagne (still)
*Rosé Champagne (still) *White Rioja *Orange Chardonnay

12/17/2021

Nuovo succo from the Italo juicemeister

11/16/2021

Return of old friends…

10/30/2021

Peter Lauer Barrels 25, 12, 15 & X. Not Lauer’s entire stylistic range, but hey, this is naples…All different yet quintessential Saar Valley Rieslings, clean as steel, with that hallmark tension between richness and animating acidity, and unsurpassed finesse & balance. It’s also Hallo Eve so let’s put our white Burgundy suit on. If only the Saar/Mosel & Rheingau had a version of Burgundy’s Chevaliers du Tastevin (chevaliers des slate?), the new rich might be slurpin’ to a more diverse tune…But the bottles are flutey so it ain’t happening (yet). Hey this is naples…

*Barrel X: platonic ideal of what off-dry Saar Riesling should taste like, at a superb Bourgogne blanc level. Fruit, acidity & spice. ADULT lemonade in a manner of Saar-speak.

*Barrel 25 Ayler Trocken: Old school Saar from 2 sites backside of the Ayl village. Flowery, spicy w/ good cut, clarity & vigor. ‘X’ gone dry?

*Barrel 12 Unterstenberg: Literally, ‘under the mountain’, from the bottom slope of Ayler Kupp. A vigorous site, w/ low residual sugar, a ‘schmalzy, glycerin mid-palate’ defined & bracketed by the acidity’s cut and lift. Net, one of the broadest & most power-laden of Lauer’s dry wines.

*Barrel 15 Stirn: Literally, the top 1/3 or ‘forehead’ of the Kupp mountain, & the exact opposite of Unterstenberg 300 feet down slope. Think Chevalier Montrachet’s exposure & thinner soils for Stirn… versus Batard’s deeper soils & pronounced vigor for Unterstenberg. One of the most nervous, linear and soaring of Lauer’s wines. Razor sharp, dense & gritty… off-dry, but with an extraordinary hi acid/low pH offset. Paired with Unterstenberg, a master class in terroir, courtesy of nature, Florian Lauer & importer Vom Boden.

10/28/2021

Baden Baden Gooden Gooden…

10/23/2021

One of my favorite 🍇 in zee world. Lacy, spacey (in an ethereal sort a way) & subtly racy. Piquant berries w that dance of white pepper. Like a good red Pinot w attitude… never enuf Pineau d’Aunis so enjoy like a phantom …

10/23/2021

Why on terra firma should a Cinsault taste like very good Burgundy? Delicacy with verve, silk without toying w/ oak. And those wild red fruited scents infused w/ forest & underbrush. Proof positive that California & 12.3 abv can more than mutually sing …