NATURAL WINE

Welcome! We import Natural Wine into Alberta & British Columbia. We supply all your favourite restaurants and wine shops with ethically farmed wine made without any additives. Learn more here!

FARMING: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

Our producers employ a variety of methodologies to grow grapes including permaculture, biodynamic, and organic techniques. By limiting chemical inputs and encouraging soil health and biodiversity they hope to make extraordinary wines that are also sustainable.

WINEMAKING: MINIMAL INTERVENTION

In the winery, our producers eschew additives like engineered yeasts, colouring, sugar, flavouring, preservatives, and enzymes. Instead they rely on growing perfectly balanced fruit, and celebrating the idiosyncrasies of each vintage. Our wines are usually unfined, unfiltered, and are low in sulphur.

FEATURED WINE

PACINA TOSCANA ROSSO IGT

About: Pacina’s flagship wine is made from Sangiovese with a minor component of Canaiolo and Ciliegiolo (5%) grown on their estate in Chianti Colli Senesi. The up to forty-year-old vines are planted on Tufo di Siena, the region’s famous porous limestone. The grapes are destemmed and fermented on skins for two to six months in ancient concrete tanks before being pressed off. The wine then spends two years in a combination of 2500L botti, tonneau, and barrique. The wine is bottled with a maximum of 10ppm of SO2 before spending at least two years in bottle before release. Vintages are seldom released consecutively; instead, they wait for the wine to reach optimal maturity. 13.5% ABV

Taste: Their wine is deep garnet in the glass. The nose is haunting in its complexity; nearly a decade of age has imparted wisdom and grandeur. You’ll find aromas of sundried plums, macerated cherries, tobacco, warm leather, black figs, lichen, tonka bean, sassafras, caraway, red miso, and dried roses. The palate is rich and powerful, with luxurious tannins and the illusion of sweetness. The finish is preposterously long, ringing out like an ancient bell, echoing. It’s a wine worth spending time with. You’ll find further flavours of cinnamon, dates, baked clay, Kenyan coffee, honeybush, palo santo, and blood orange—a tremendous mature wine.
 
Pairing: Pappardelle alla Lepre is an old-school Tuscan dish that’s hearty enough for this robust wine. Rabbit is marinated in wine, vinegar, and aromatics before being braised in stock. The rich sauce is then added to wide ribbons of pasta, keeping even the most vicious polar vortexes at bay.

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