Controcorrente
Controcorrente translates as 'against the mainstream' in Italian. This is a boutique vermouth company, using organic Veneto grapes and Mediterranean botanicals.
Companhia de Vinhos dos Profetas e Villões
Widely regarded as one of the most dynamic young winemakers in Portugal, António Maçanita crafts wines from the Azores archipelago to Alentejo, and now to Porto Santo, a small island off Madeira. He excels at capturing the essence of the regional terroir and traditions.
Tolosa Winery
Tolosa is nestled amongst the volcanic hills of San Luis Obispo County and is the frontier for the most complex cool-climate varietals in California; Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Alpha Omega Winery
Established in 2006, Alpha Omega's mission is to create artisanal wines drawing Old World vineyard handcrafted practices and emphasis on unique terroir driven characteristics that reveal a sense of place combined with New World technology and science.
Weingut F. X. Pichler
Founded in Oberloiben in 1898, the Pichler estate has developed a reputation as a Grüner Veltliner specialist since Franz Pichler Sr began selecting his own clones in 1928. The estate was once fulsomely described by Robert Parker as the “Château Latour, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Zind-Humbrecht, Sandrone and Helen Turley of the Wachau”.
Maxime Barrot
Originally from the Beaujolais village of Charnay, in the land of the Golden Stones, Maxime Barrot learned how to make natural wine in Chile.
Forti del Vento
Forti del Vento refers to strength and lightness; the matter and the spirit. They farm organically and biodynamically, with ample biodiversity throughout their 5 hectares of vineyards in the Alto Monferrato, north of Liguria.
Mirco Mariotti
Mirco Mariotti makes natural wines in the Bosco Eliceo area in the eastern part of Emilia-Romagna. The vines grow 300 meters from the Adriatic sea and many are well over 100 years old.
Château La Coste
Chateau La Coste is located in Provence approximately 25 minutes by car from Aix en Provence, in the provencal village of Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade. Dating back to Roman times, the property and exceptional 125 hectare certified organic vineyard is surrounded and filled with stunning artworks, from well known artists around the world.
Papantonis Winery
Papantonis Winery was established in 1993 in Nemea by siblings Antony and Kallie Papantonis. The vineyards, focusing on indigenous varieties, are situated just outside of the village Malandreni.
Château La Grolet
The Hubert family own and farm two nearby vineyards, Château Peybonhomme-les-Tours in the Côtes de Blaye, and Château La Grolet to the south in the Côtes de Bourg. Both of these Right Bank Estates are farmed biodynamically.
Oceano Wines
Founded in 2016, Oceano Wines is a boutique winery specializing in cool-climate, single vineyard, premium Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The sole source of fruit comes from Spanish Springs Vineyard, a mere 1.5 miles from the coast in the newly proposed San Luis Obispo (SLO) Coast AVA.
ADAMVS
Atop Napa Valley’s Howell Mountain rest 80 acres of wild beauty, now known as the ADAMVS Estate. From 2008, vintners Denise and Stephen Adams have farmed 27 planted acres using the organic and biodynamic methods they have espoused for decades at their Chateau Fonplegade in Bordeaux, France.
Bodegas Peique
The winery was founded in 1999, with an innovative viticulture project that responded to its long family tradition in Valtuille de Abajo, Bierzo.
Artemis Karamolegos
Artemis Karamolegos is one of the most dynamic wineries on Santorini. Inspired by his grandfather, who started making wine and cultivating vines as a hobby in the 1950s, Artemis founded his winery in 2004, growing it to be the third largest winery by volume on the Aegean island.
Restless River
Restless River is in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, situated in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley appellation, with vineyards at an altitude reaching 1200ft, only 5km from the cold South Atlantic Ocean, near the town of Hermanus, 100km from the southern tip of the African continent.
Domaine Guillaume Vrignaud
The Vrignauds’ family, settled in the village of Fontenay-près-Chablis, have been vine growers for five generations.
Calvados Roger Groult
Currently run but the 5th generation, the Groult family has a long history of savoir faire to carefully craft Calvados to express all of its complexity.
Blankiet Estate
Owners Claude and Katherine Blankiet spent three years searching for specific hillside vineyards on the western side of Napa Valley. In 1996 they located and purchased hillside property near Yountville.
Koval Distillery
KOVAL Distillery creates an extraordinary line of whiskey, gin, and specialty spirits using unique organic grains and signature “heart cut” techniques with only the absolute best quality distillate.