We hold it to the same high standards that we hold our food - like organic farming and minimal preservatives. To us grape growing should be good for our health and be environmentally sustainable. It’s important to us that winegrowers are conscious of these ideals when farming their grapes and making their wines. Basically, we like wines made with the least possible use of chemicals, additives and
technological intervention. There are over 200 different synthetic chemical additives permitted in winemaking today that won’t show up on a wine label. These additives along with many modern winemaking techniques can change the way wine tastes. We think manipulation in the winery can erase individuality and Terroir. Industrialized wine making processes can yield wines that taste exactly the same regardless of the grape variety or region they come from. Some of these wines can taste the same every vintage with no mention that perhaps one year’s weather was different from the last. We believe that wine should taste different every year and that it should reflect the vineyard from which the grapes were picked. We always ask ourselves what the wine has to say about the place its from, the grapes its made up of and the people who created it. We like to work with small wineries that are run by the people that work there, not a board of directors. We like to get to know the people that work there and understand why they make the wines they do. We like wines that are farmed organically (with or without certification), have low sulphites and are fermented with indigenous yeast (aka natural or wild yeast). Grapes should be handpicked and usually the wines we work with are completely unfined and unfiltered, have seen no new oak and have had no colour, sugar, acid or tannin adjustments or additives of any kind. We love drinking wine and we are romantic about the world of wine but we are not dogmatic or rule bound. We like to work with winemakers who share the spirit of these ideas, who care about the earth and have a desire to make the best wine they can in the most natural way possible.
