Celebrating 40 years!

For anyone who is 40 this year, we have a treat for you! Two lovely dessert wines from the year of your birth! They also work great for anniversaries :)

We have just a handful of each left, so get yours while you can!

1983 Kopke Colheita 
Portugal

Traditional Douro grape varieties

Deep brick in colour with a broad amber rim. Opulent aromas of dried fruit with notes of caramelised dulce de leche and a subtle hint of molasses. Seductive, enticing and delicate, laden with elegant flavours of dried fruit. Its texture is silky and deliciously creamy. A powerful wine with a remarkably elegant and persistent finish.

1983 Moulin Touchais
Couteaux de Layon, France

100% Chenin Blanc

Founded in 1787, this 150-hectare estate in the center Loire continues to be led by the Touchais family. Their vast cellars house a million bottles of rare and relatively affordable treasures. Only released after ten years in bottle, these dessert wines are among the finest Chenin Blancs of the Loire Valley. The vines are rarely affected by botrytis, and 20% of the crop is harvested early to ensure the acidity that balances the 80% late-harvest grapes. The style is balanced and restrained: true to the vintage, but focused on expressing terroir rather than power or concentration.

At 40-years-old, this golden wine may be old, but it is still glorious. Still honeyed, with hints of its past yellow and bitter-orange fruit still there, the wine is intense, with toast, almonds and a richness that is so concentrated. Drink now.

La Garagista: winemaker Deirdre Heekin

Big news this week coming from Deirdre and Caleb of La Garagista!

"First, the New York Times featured us last week in Eric Asimov's The Pour. “How the Most Delicious Wines Stay True to Themselves: 6 Winemakers Who Value Originality Above All”."

Also, Food and Wine announced their second annual 2023 Drinks Innovators of the Year, and we are very happily included!"

La Garagista

winemaker Deirdre Heekin

Barnard, Vermont

We began creating La garagista Farm + Winery, this farmstead landscape, in 1999 with first efforts at restaurant gardens, as the sister and backbone to our long-standing osteria pane e salute which ran for twenty years in the village of Woodstock, Vermont; the winery opened its doors in 2010 with the first vintage. We closed the restaurant in 2017 in order to focus our attention solely on the farm and winery and our pop-up projects. Deirdre Heekin is winegrower, organizer, writer, photographer, flower farmer, would-be designer. Caleb Barber is gardener, cook, designer, builder, mechanic, factotum, philosopher, farm manager. Camila, the assistant winegrower, is grower, organizer, creator, systems manager, right hand. We are farmers. Just like the garden spills into the vineyard, and the roses spill into the orchard, we always have a flow of creative people who lend their skills, thoughts, and energy to the project at hand whether its pruning, planting new vines, turning new beds, or harvesting. For them, we are forever thankful.

These are the hands and hearts that make La Garagista.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀

🍀 Happy St. Paddy's Day! 🍀

We have Sliabh Liag Distillers Silkie Irish Whiskey!

Legendary, Dark and Midnight all in 750ml.

Added bonus; Legendary and Dark are also availbale in nips (50ml)!