Ch. 03  ·  Behind the Cork — a cellar notebook
Pet-Nat Field Talks  ·  Spring Cuvée 04 / 12
House values  //  how we taste

How we choose a bottle

1

Made by a person we'd share a meal with small batch

Two-hectare plots in Beaujolais and Aichi over six-acre estates. If we can't email the maker back by Sunday, the bottle doesn't make the shelf.

2

Farmed without the spray binder organic + biodynamic

Certified organic at minimum, biodynamic where the calendar allows. Cover crops, hand-picking, no synthetic herbicide — boring on paper, alive in the glass.

3

Native yeast, almost-zero sulfur pet-nat friendly

Wild ferments only. We accept up to 30 mg/L total SO₂ at bottling — half the natural-wine charter ceiling — because cleaner glass, fewer band-aid notes.

4

Tasted twice, once with food double-pour rule

Once cold at the counter, once at room temp with a hunk of comté and warm sourdough. If it sulks beside cheese, we send the case back the same week.