Producers
Introducing our winemakers, who bring Georgia’s vine to life.
Wild (y) East Finds Connecticut
This Connecticut launch event was the newest stop on our Wild (y) East series, and the newest name on our distribution roster: Ungrafted Selections, Connecticut’s purveyor of conscientiously farmed, handcrafted wines from small independent growers.
Why The Eighth Life Is the Georgian Novel to Read
Haratischvili, a Tbilisi-born playwright who writes in German and who left Georgia as a child in the difficult years after independence, refuses to let history become abstraction. Georgia’s twentieth century was not a backdrop for her characters. It was the weather they lived in. And yes, there is wine in that explanation.
Wild (y) East Reaches Rhode Island
There is a word in Georgian that translates to something similar to “feast.” A supra is not merely a meal though. It is a social event: a table, a toastmaker, a sequence of glasses (sometimes bowls; sometimes horns) raised in a specific order, food arriving in waves, strangers becoming friends before the night is over. It is, in the best sense, a gathering around wine. And this past Thursday evening in Rhode Island, that tradition found an unlikely stage: the deck of a boat drifting past the Jamestown coastline.
The wine industry is a tightly knit ecosystem built on relationships.
We cut our teeth in this business on the distribution side. Introducing a little know wine region with unfamiliar, hard to pronounce grapes taught us a lot. We have a tremendous appreciation for the distributors and their sales teams and all the hard work that goes into servicing accounts.
Distributors
Shops are the gate keepers, the curators and the trend setters.
Through out our time working with wine directors and purchasing managers, we often reflected on how much power shops actually hold in the marketplace. The ones that connect with consumers, are able to harness that power and wield significant influence.
