Earth + Poetry Month Wine Bundle
A new month means a new wine bundle! In honor of Earth Month, we wanted to showcase a bundle that featured 100% biodynamically-made wines. Sustainability is one of our strongest values, and making earth-friendly choices is always a top priority to us. We love these “green” wines and hope you will, too! They're perfect for a picnic at the park, an afternoon at the beach, or a dinner party full of fresh, local dishes. And, as if this bundle couldn't get any cooler, we've paired these wines with a few nature-themed poems in celebration of National Poetry Month, too. Read on to see the beautiful poems chosen for each of the wines!
Loimer Rosé 2017
This beauty comes from biodynamically-farmed vineyards near the village of Langenlois in the Kamptal region of Austria. Whole clusters of Zweigelt, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay are fermented in a former cellar of the Haindorf Castle. Pretty tasting notes of wildflowers, fresh strawberries and bay leaf are framed by gentle spice in this bottle.
“You who never arrived
You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don’t even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment. All the immense
images in me—the far-off, deeply-felt landscape,
cities, towers, and bridges, and un-suspected turns in the path,
and those powerful lands that were once
pulsing with the life of the gods—
all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.
You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house—, and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon,—
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back
my too-sudden image. Who knows? perhaps the same
bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening...”
Evolúció Furmint Frizzante 2019
Beautiful bubbles made from a blend of 60% Furmint and 40% Hárslevelű from sustainably and biodynamically farmed vineyards in the Tokaj region of Hungary. This is from one of the world’s oldest designated wine regions. The volcanic nature of the soil found here and the extreme continental climate develops perfumed wines with a stony, bright personality. Fresh tasting notes of elderflower, pear, and peach.
“I went to a green forest, And saw a blue-violet, It wanted to wither, Am I allowed to water?
”
Maysara Autees Pinot Blanc 2021
This is a slightly richer Pinot Blanc, with vines nestled in the foothills of the McMinnville AVA, in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Maysara Winery practices only low-impact, holistic farming methods in their Demeter Certified Biodynamic Vineyard. They distribute their own compost, grow their own herbs and flowers to use as pesticide, and ferment only with native yeasts. Yummy notes of ripe apricot and lychee.
“Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.”
De Boel France 'Aleph' Cotes-du-Rhone Rouge 2020
Renowned winemakers Nelly France and Arnaud de Boel farm organically and biodynamically on their vineyards nestled in the Rhone Valley. There's no chemical input at all in this Syrah/Grenache blend. Grapes are completely hand harvested from bush vines before fermentation and aging in both stainless steel and old barriques. Savory tasting notes of underbrush, olives, and plums.
“The Woman and the Flame
A bit of light that descends the springhead of a gaze
twin shadow of the eyelash and the rainbow on a face
and round about
who goes there angelically
ambling
Woman the current weather
the current weather matters little to me
my life is always ahead of a hurricane
you are the morning that swoops down on the lamp a night stone
between its teeth
you are the passage of seabirds as well
you who are the wind through the salty ipomeas of consciousness
insinuating yourself from another world
Woman
you are a dragon whose lovely color is dispersed and darkens so
as to constitute the
inevitable tenor of things
I am used to brush fires
I am used to ashen bush rats and the bronze ibis of the flame
Woman binder of the foresail gorgeous ghost
helmet of algae of eucalyptus
dawn isn’t it
and in the abandon of the ribbands
very savory swimmer”