After all of these years spent as both amateurs and professionals, we continue to be inspired by natural wine; how it makes us feel (high), what it can do to our own ways of seeing the world, and perhaps most importantly how it brings people together.
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Gianfranco Manca
Nurri, Sardinia
From a visit to Nurri in June, 2024Gianfranco Manca is a gentle soul born and raised in Nurri, a village in the center of Sardinia where he continues to live, farm, and make wine. This is a far—and far out—place to access, and one’s own spirituality is awakened from its dormancy just coming into contact with its both brutal and beautiful garrigue surroundings. An unlikely place for what we consider to be one of the godfather domaines of vin nature, Gianfranco’s wines continue to both impress and affect us to a large degree. Perhaps his younger wines can feel too hot to the less-seasoned palate (he certainly does pick ripe), but deep and thoughtful drinkers of all experiences will at once connect the dots to the styles of some of the great vinifiers of our times.
Alvax 2021
White blend maceration
$48
Shugusucci 2017
Cannonau
$45