TBD: Low-intervention Wine & Craft Spirits

Jenny Lefcourt, a native New Yorker, originally landed in Paris to study French film during her PhD at Harvard. After many visits to Paris wine bars and vineyards throughout France, all paths led to wine instead of academia.Jenny, was one of the first to champion low-intervention and natural winemaking over 20 years ago, and we firmly believe we wouldn't be here without her.  Join us as she takes us through her journey, how she started to how things are looking for the future of natural wine.  

William is the owner of Heavy Metl Premium Imports, and has been importing Mezcal, Charanda, Tequila and Agava based distilled beverages for the last five+ years! Some of his notable brands are Rey Campero, Cabilito Cerro, Urupan Charanda, Real Minero, Chacolo, and Mezcalosfera.

The psychedelic badman single-handedly changing the face of US Mourvèdre. We sit with Hardy and chat about his new zoom tasting series, mixing wine with music, and a shared love for honest, soil driven wines.

When Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen set off in creating Empirical Spirits in 2017, they were guided by a child-like curiosity about how the world works. This perspective blended with their knack for tinkering, exploration, and continual refinement. The result? A powerful blend that pushes Empirical Spirits to be focused on creating the best flavors possible.  A True ' Flavor Company'

Joel Burt and Eric Wareheim are the winemakers behind 'Las Jaras' Wines. Making delicious wine that has tons of energy with balance, and a little sexyness. We chat with Joel about punk music, organic farming, and covid-baking. And maybe a little about making fun California wines.

Zev sits down with us to talk about the current market, why root days are BS and the possibilities of scaling natural wine.

Joe Swick is a natural/low intervention wine maker based on Oregon. Making wines w/ grapes sourced from Washington and Oregon. We chat about his process, how he got started, and what his definition of natural wine is.

We chat w/ Tess from Tess Bryant Selections. She imports natural wines from Australia, as well as some French, Domestic wines, and ciders too. We dive-in about our combined love for natty-aus wines, and the proliferation of some really great ciders coming about.

We talk with Mary Bartlett, from Future Gin, a purely 'California' dry gin. She dives into the process, botanical selections, and how Future Gin is growing.

We sit down with Alvaro and talk about Spain, Spanish wines, import, distribution, and how he got into the natural wine business.

We sit down to chat w/ Michael Cruse for this open episode. Chat about Ultramarine, the Covid situation, and how he got started as a winemaker.