{"title":"The Patron Saint Edit","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ocampo-bundle-tk","title":"OCampo, a Canary Island Vibe","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroducing the Patron Saint Edit, a weekly curated offer on bottles we can’t stop thinking about, difficult to source cuvées, and unusual gems that belong in your cellar. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo weeks ago, I stood in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.laluzselections.com\/o-campo\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOCampo’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e volcanic vineyards, pulling back lime-green grape leaves to reveal the tiniest buds of Vijariego Negro grapes I’ve ever seen (the only Vijariego Negro grapes I’ve ever seen). Before me, the sun shone on the Atlantic ocean, wild blue and creamy with surf. Behind me, the Dorsal mountains, a range culminating in the snow-capped peak of Mount Teide, were cloaked in moody, ghost-grey mist. Deeper into the fog and higher along the slopes, Listán Blanco vines over half-a-century old twisted in the typical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erastra \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor braided cordon system above the ground, looking wise and majestic. Here, in the heart of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa, winemaker Jonatan Garcia alongside Francisco Álvarez is building on the 40-year tradition of Presa OCampo with wines that defy the sometimes volatile nature of cuvées from the Canaries. Garcia, who is a fifth-generation Canarian and the hand behind the lauded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.polanerselections.com\/producers\/suertes-del-marques\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuertes del Marqués\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e label, has brought a renewed sense of gravity to OCampo, located in the Tacoronte-Acentejo DOP, proving that the Canaries can be equally as wild as they are serious with wines meant to age like Burgundy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you love Canary Island wine already, these bottles are for you. If you love Burgundy, these bottles are for you. If you want to imagine yourself gazing at the ocean, eating a plate of grilled seafood, drinking tropical, electric Listán Blanco, these bottles are for you. We have every current cuvée of OCampo on our shelves right now in limited quantities, thanks to our sharp-eyed friends at Spanish + Portuguese importer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.laluzselections.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLa Luz Selections\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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This included two thinky reds from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/patronsaintwine.com\/search?q=fattoria+al+fiore\u0026amp;_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=%22fattoria+al\u0026amp;_ss=e\u0026amp;_v=1.0\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFattoria al Fiore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an electrifying rosé from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/patronsaintwine.com\/products\/domaine-tetta-aki-queen-okayama-japan-2023?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=e6138f50c\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDomaine Tetta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and a cache of skin contact chardonnay from Tada Winery. The latter comes from a farm in Hokkaido, a northern island with a wild climate that makes winemaking a major feat and celebratory matter; winter growing conditions can go below 22 degrees Fahrenheit with cool summers that lengthen ripening into a game with meditative patience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTada Farm was founded in 1901 with polyculture and was planted with vines in 2007, but years aren’t so much a matter for vigneron Shigeo Tada who believes that growing and making wine isn’t simply a present endeavor, but one that is meant to take its own path, with time as simply one factor in a kaleidoscope of energies. Beneath the surface of its soils is a tens-of-thousands of years-old layer of volcanic ash and peat, as well as underground waterways that transport the minerals of the mountains and the spirits of the extinct volcano Mt. Tokachi from millennia ago. What are we to make of the present moment when compared with such ancient forces?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTada’s Orange Chardonnay is a prism with which to see this course of time and terroir. The grapes, which come from young vines planted on alluvial soils, were harvested and de-stemmed by hand, and gently pressed with their skins, left to macerate for 20 days, which provides its deep tangerine hue. The juice was aged in French oak (also providing texture and color) and stainless steel for nine months. The resulting wine is reminiscent of autumn tea—ginger, dried apricot, dehydrated apple, and sandalwood. Like receiving a precious bit of fruit or excavating a glittering stone from the earth’s depths, it feels like a gift to experience something from halfway around the world that could exist and grow only there. \u003cem\u003e—Leslie Pariseau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Patron Saint Edit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48805323440384,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/3684\/6592\/files\/IMG_0616.jpg?v=1783550168"},{"product_id":"eyrie-sisters-2022-offer","title":"Burgundian Pinot from a Willamette Visionary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroducing the Patron Saint Edit, a weekly curated offer on bottles we can’t stop thinking about, difficult to source cuvées, and unusual gems that belong in your cellar. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI think a lot about vision. The idea that if you can \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003esee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e where you're going and if you can express this sightline with clarity, the world will recognize it and see you too. Eyrie is a producer that has had unflinching vision since its founding in 1965 in the Willamette Valley, its path now chiseled into the geography of American wine-growing and -making as singular. At Eyrie's nascence, there was no proof of concept that Oregon was a site for growing exceptional Pinot noir or Chardonnay. It was simply David Lett's crystalline vision and 3000 grape cuttings that forged the path to the Willamette Valley becoming the highest value earth in in the state. Today, Eyrie's wines are hailed as some of the best bottlings outside of Burgundy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe always have Eyrie at the shop if it's available, their spicy and textural Chasselas to the beguiling, garnet-red Trousseau. We also happened to invest in a significant tranche of their \"Sisters\" Pinot noir bottling from 2022, a cuvée named for Eyrie's experimental vineyard in the volcanic soils of the Dundee Hills planted with eight grape varieties and hazelnuts, and named for the Pinot sisters: noir, blanc, and gris. Like all of Eyrie's pinots, it is fermented with indigenous yeast, aged in new and neutral oak. The last time I drank this wine, I did so next to a Benoit Cantin Irancy, and the two were in such intense conversation, I'm not sure I'd have blinded the Eyrie as Oregon. The 2022 has shadowy minerality, pencil graphite savor, and woodland berry structure. It's something to age for sure, is delicious now, and will be very fun to check in on next year, the following, and ten years beyond. 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