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Giuseppe Cipolla
Giuseppe’s wines are as distinctive as the soils on which they are grown: a remarkable mix of chalk, gypsum, sulphur and ancient salt deposits, in what was previously an important salt and sulphur mining landscape. It gives the wines an extraordinary tension and acid backbone, in total defiance of the blistering Sicilian sun. In short, these are textural, profound and unarguably delicious.
Every decision Giuseppe makes in the winery has a single goal: to fully express the grapes and this remarkable terroir. He works exclusively with indigenous yeasts and bottles without filtration. In his own words:
“…the soil is not a base; it is the voice of the wine.”
His choices in the vineyard are just as considered, using traditional training methods that provide much-needed shade for the bunches while maintaining airflow and reducing disease pressure, allowing him to use zero synthetic chemicals.
We’re offering three of his wines: Solfare, a salty white with a nod towards the wines of Jura; Occhio di Sale, a hedonistic, gastronomic rosé; and Le Robbe, a dense yet aromatic and vibrant red.
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Empire of Dirt
This is a wine we’re always pleased to welcome back. They are serious value and without doubt they deserve a place on your dinner table, at your party, in your glass.
When winemaker Johan Meyer came up with Empire of Dirt, the idea was simple: he wanted to show off the terroir of Swartland; to boast about the soils, their range, and the stories they hold. Winemaking follows this thinking; from ground to glass, he changes the course of the wine as little as possible to let us taste the fruit first. Where moves like controlled oxidation are used, it’s sparing, and intentional. The result is a Cabernet Franc and a Sauvignon Blanc that paint pictures of the soils, the climate, and the fruit.
We just received the 2025 vintage and it might just be the best yet.
'La Promesse' Pomerol, 2019
We have welcomed a new Bordeaux to the shelves of The Sourcing Table. This beautiful Pomerol is showing us what value for money in Bordeaux looks like. Dip your toe into Pomerol without diving, with your life savings, into the top tier.
Unlike a lot of the big flashy Bordeaux houses, you won’t find a glossy website or a host of information about the heritage of Chateau Beau Soleil. What there is, is a clear sense of purpose. The wine is made by owner and winemaker Romain Rivière, using fruit from a single 4-hectare plot in the village of Pomerol, farmed organically and biodynamically. You may know Pomerol as the home of Petrus and Le Pin, but Romain is showing us a different side of the appellation. This is everything you want from Bordeaux; it’s rich and polished, with bags of fruit, but also deep and coffee stained, and without the need to remortgage.
Domaine de l'Accent
We recently welcomed Konrad Pixner’s wines to our shelves and they are blowing us away with their value. These four wines are refreshingly varied, and each illustrate a different facet of the Terrasses du Larzac while carrying Konrad’s fingerprint.
Konrad is farming completely organically and trusting nature to do what it does best. Hand-harvesting and fermentation with native yeast are standard and an obvious choice for Konrad. His philosophy is summed up best in his own words: “…it is in the vines that my wines are made.”
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