Now that sudden hit ‘Tretas’ 2018 is almost sold out it’s time to revisit its slightly more introverted brother ‘Rufia’ 2017, also from Dao maverick @joaotavaresdepinawines. ⚡️Turns out it is amazeballs, added it to the Spring Favourites Box right away (linkinbio). More dense and earthy at its core, but no less addictive due to its spine-tingling acidity. 🍇Darker and less easy to ‘get’ than ‘Tretas’, but I’m going nuts sniffing my glass trying to disentangle all the nuances of forest berries, rosehip, black tea and wet earth. Give it some air though, and a slight chill.

Plot twist! Spring cleaning session yielded a couple of lost & forgotten cases of Pipeño wines by our friend @louisantoineluyt! Red ‘Laja’ and everybody’s favourite macerated party juice ‘Carrizal’ 😍. Get yours through the webshop (linkinbio) or at one of our stores before they’re gone. To spread the joy as widely as possible we’re limiting sales to 1 bottle a person.

At least we’ll come out of this situation looking fresh as a daisy - both online and offline! From now on daily new additions to the webshop, making your life much much easier. 💪Don’t forget to call or app the stores if you need free and same-day delivery in Amsterdam! #realwine #getyours

🤓😎Issue 22 let’s go! #noblerot #winemag #quarantine #getyours

Sad to announce we’re cancelling next weekend’s events with Domaine Jousset and Domaine de la Roche Bleue. In current circumstances merely capping the number of participants isn’t going to cut it, so we need to delay until further notice. People who’ve signed up will receive message later today. 💪For now let’s comply to the guidelines and collaborate to contain the damage.

Salty salty goodness! @animamundi_celler is the explicitly experimental and low-intervention project of the fiercely talented young @agustitroca. With additive-free but meticulously executed vinifications in old barrels and amphora, he crafts some of the most exciting bottles on our shelves. These are wines that unite the energy of natural wine with generations worth of classical metier and promise nothing but great heights in the future. 🐚 The Xarel-lo 2018 is sourced from a cool 40 year-old vineyard on very chalky soils. After a short maceration it is pressed and fermented without inputs in amphora and old barrels. Subsequently it is left untouched for 6 months, until it is bottled unsulphured and unfiltered. 🍋 The 2018 is really starting to sing now, full harmony between the grape’s inherent iodine earthiness, the slight reduction and crunch of the winemaking, and the endlessly saline finish produced by biodynamically tended old vines. Glorious bottle. ⚡️ #realwine #animamundi #agustitorelloroca #xarello #penedes #revolution #naturalwine #prodigy #vinsvius

⚡️Epic in-store Chenin Blanc taste-off! Who’s dark tuffeau caves yield the most electric wines? Lise and Bertrand Jousset’s rich Montlouis work, with its perfect balance of creamy stone fruit and lip-smacking minerality? Or Sebastien Cornille’s glacial Jasnières, that crystalline juice from the northernmost outskirts of Chenin-growing? That’s what we’re gonna find out, Sunday afternoon March 22nd. 🍷🥂Pet-nats and crunchy light reds abound as well: this is going to be a party. Link in bio! #liseetbertrandjousset #domainejousset #domainedelarochebleue #sebastiencornille #jasnieres #montlouissurloire #tuffeau #silex #cheninblanc #chenincheninchenin #pineaudaunis #gamay #biodynamie #naturalwine #battle

New Paca! Bunch of glorious 17’s plus Nuits-Saint-Georges 15 and Cornas (!) 16. Brand new Ladoix Rouge wins right now, as far as ‘value’ Pacalet goes this is the business. #stoked #getyours #philippepacalet #naturalwine #naturalburgundy #nuitssaintgeorges #ladoix #chablis #puligny #cornas #negoce

On Sunday 22 and Monday 23 we welcome young biodynamic winemakers Lise & Bertrand Jousset (Montlouis-sur-Loire) and Sebastien Cornille (Roche Bleue, Jasnières) for a series of events throughout Amsterdam! First we're doing a fun little IN-STORE TASTING at Chabrol Haarlemmerstraat, where both domaines will pour their range of wines. Sunday 15:00-17:00, entry is only 10 euro's, capacity is about 50, walk-ins are possible in theory but best to secure a spot online NOW. Next up is an intimate WINEMAKERS DINNER at @restaurantwatergang. Here the winemakers will pour their wines alongside 4 matching courses. Sunday March 22nd - 19:00 - 4 courses - 5 wines - EUR70,00 p.p. - for reservations CONTACT WATERGANG. Lastly, on Monday the 23rd from 14:30-16:30, there is a Montlouis vs. Jasnières CHENIN BLANC MASTERCLASS for professionals at Restaurant Gebroeders Hartering. For inquiries & invites holler at @jannekevdleer.

From now on we’ll be doing a ‘Wines of the Month’ offer to give a little extra love (read: sales) to our favorite producers! For March: The Centre-Loire Edition we turn to three of the vignerons we visited earlier this month. First up are ‘Groseille’ 2017 (!!!) and ‘Matousé’ 2018 by natural wine young gun Alexis Hudon. Then two more classically styled Menetou’s by biodynamic leading light in the region Domaine Philippe Gilbert. Lastly we’ve got a white Quincy 2015 (!!!) and red Reuilly 2017 by Domaine Les Poëte, the near-quixotically ambitious project of Guillaume Sorbe that’s been showered with praise by @larvf_mag and @bettanedesseauve recently. #getyours in our shops or online now! #tenpercentoff #slagslaan #alexishudon #domainephilippegilbert #domainelespoete #guillaumesorbe #biodynamie #naturalwine #loirewine #sauvignonblanc #pinotnoir #gamay #gogogo💪