Orange & Goat Cheese Salad, Glazed Salmon, Panna Cotta

Green apple, citrus, pear, and apricot.

Varietal:

Picapoll Blanc

Vintage:

• 2022

ABV:

• 10.5%

Funky Scale:

Middle of the Road

Style:

Glou Glou

Region:Lleida, Spain

Celler Comalats is a family-run winery located in Segarra, Lleida. The winery focuses on organic viticulture, cultivating grape varieties such as Garnacha, Picapoll, Syrah, and Cabernet Sauvignon on 12 hectares of clay and calcareous soil. The Bonet family has revived the local winemaking tradition, emphasizing ecological practices and preserving the region's heritage.

Asian Food, Picnic Food, Spicy Food

Orange, lemon, blackcurrant and raisin.

Varietal:

Moscatel de Alejandria, Corinto

Vintage:

• 2022

ABV:

• 13.5%

Funky Scale:

Mostly Funky

Style:

Food Wine

Region: Bio-Bio, Chile

Manuel Moraga Gutierrez, seventh-generation owner and winemaker of Cacique Maravilla, honors his family's legacy in Yumbel's Bio-Bio Valley. Descended from Francisco Gutierrez Gutierrez, who earned the admiration of the Mapuche people as 'Cacique Maravilla', Manuel continues the tradition of crafting traditional, non-interventionist Chilean wines. With ancestral roots dating back to 1750 when Francisco arrived from the Canary Islands, Manuel's dedication to preserving the land and its heritage shines through in every bottle, carrying forward a narrative of reverence for the terroir and its cultural significance.

Fried Food, White Meat, Cheese Plate

Green apple, apricot, peach, lemon, and jasmine.

Varietal:

Riesling Sylvaner Gerwurztraminer

Vintage:

• 2022

ABV:

• 13%

Funky Scale:

Mostly Funky

Style:

Hype Juice, Glou Glou

Region: Alsace, France

Les Vins Pirouettes is a project launched by Christian Binner, that brings affordable natural wines to the table, and at the same time helps organic and biodynamic grape growers in Alsace move away from selling their grapes to cooperatives towards making and bottling natural wines. Each cuvée is made at a young grower’s winery, where they supply the grapes and Christian supplies his 20 years of expertise in making natural wine in Alsace, and of course his marketing and distribution savviness. Each cuvée will feature the name of the grower on the bottle. - Jenny & Francois

Venison Carpaccio, Pork Bulgogi, Pavlova

Cherries, blackberries, dates, chamomile and cardamom.

Varietal:

Viognier, Pinot Gris

Vintage:

• 2021

ABV:

• 12.5%

Funky Scale:

Middle of the Road

Style:

Food Wine

Region: Tasman, New Zealand

Most natural winemakers will tell you they make wines that they themselves like to drink; Yuki-san, revealing the former rigorous sommelier still residing inside him, makes wines that he’d like to pair. “Wine has a long history of walking hand in hand with great food cultures of the world, traditionally with the Western ones that are very rich in butter, oil, and meat. But my culture is different. When I was working as a somm in Kyoto fine dining restaurants, I’d sometimes have difficulty finding the perfect wine for pairing… so I ended up trying to make them as I’d like them to match,” he says about the philosophy behind his cute flower-dotted labels, which are created by his friend, a Japanese artist named Sacco. - Jenny & Francois