Shipping & Delivery

Where do you ship? 

Currently we offer local pick-up and delivery, but we are expanding soon!

Local delivery is available within a ~five mile radius from the shop. This too will be expanding soon.

Returns

What is your Return Policy? 

Generally, once an item has left the shop we will no longer accept it for return. However, we certainly want you to be happy with your purchase and would encourage you to reach out if you have any issues with an item.

Wine

What is Natural Wine? 

It’s just grapes fermented into alcohol! Obviously, a whole lot more goes into it than that, but you get the drift. It’s low-intervention winemaking - no tinkering, generally organic and a showing of true mastery in the vineyard & the cellar to achieve balance, flavor & longevity. Conventionally/mass-produced wines oftentimes have a lot of sugars and manipulators added.

Are all the wines we carry natural?

All of the wines we carry are natural wines; all are organically farmed, but some do have a small addition of sulfur—which is totally fine! Sulfur is naturally occurring in all wine; it’s what helps wine keep its form, but some people abuse the use of sulfur because they are starting with an unstable product and are trying to stabilize it.

What does biodynamic mean?

Biodynamics is a farming ideology developed in the 1920s by a philosopher named Rudolph Steiner. It is a farming guide that follows the moon's cycle through the constellations. Sounds far out, but there is power in how this earth works. It’s a practice that goes beyond organic and has a deep focus on using compost, natural pest deterrents & methods to bring energy to the soil & vines.

What is orange wine?

Orange wine is the casual name for skin contact or skin-macerated wine made from white wine grapes. Orange wines have been around forever! In fact, the orange wine style was more of the typical white wine style back in the day. White wine macerates with the skins for a matter of hours, 8-12 usually, whereas orange wines have extended maceration anywhere from hours to months. They can be made from any white wine grapes and are stylistically quite different depending on the grape, length of maceration, and who is making them. It’s as if you treated a white wine the way that red wines are made! The result is generally a fuller mouthfeel with more texture from the skin's tannins.

What is a pét-nat?

A Pét-nat is the street name for the French term referring to a particular style of sparkling wine: pétillant naturel. It all comes down to how the second fermentation is handled, or not, when the rest of the sugars are converted to CO2 and the wine becomes sparkling. For pét-nats, they are sparkling but not aggressively sparkling. The wine goes through the first fermentation and then gets bottled before it’s complete, so it goes through 1.5 fermentations. Pét-nats are fun, unfiltered & can be explosive if not careful.