Sangiovese + Sediment: a natural wine newsletter
Natural wine explainers + recipes + interviews + Italy travel tips for the thirsty. From the publisher of Pipette Magazine, this twice-weekly newsletter takes you around the world, deepening your knowledge of natural wine and where to drink it.
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A Wine Writer’s First Harvest, in France (opens the original)
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Here in central Italy, the vendemmia—grape harvest—is winding down. The energy in the vineyards right now, and particularly the free-spirited harvesters who come from around the world to spend three weeks knee-deep in fermenting grape juice, reminded me of my own full first harvest season, in the Loire Valley.It was one of my all-time most impactful, memorable life experiences, one that forever changed me—which is why it took up an entire chapter in my first book, You Had Me at Pét-Nat.<
Sangiovese’s New Swagger Isn’t About Big Names (opens the original)
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Sangiovese is Italy’s most widely-planted grape. For decades, it was associated with stern, pricey, long-aging wines like Brunello di Montalcino or the mega-famous Chianti. But recent releases from Central Italian winemakers like Pācina, Malauva, Colombaia, La Gazzetta, and Corvagialla are revealing the grape’s potential to produce gentle, even glou-glou iterations that pair with a wide range of foods. These bottles tend not to proclaim their varietal nature on the label—partly an effect of rest
Last week’s Substack Live (opens the original)
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If The World Is Ending, Let It End With Wine (opens the original)
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Somewhere in-between harvesting Procanico grapes in a vineyard overlooking Lake Bolsena, and standing inside the Pantheon—a two-thousand year old dome in Rome, built first to honor the pagan gods, and where the Renaissance artist Raphael is buried—the news came out that, according to AI developers, the world is ending.Or humanity, at least, is ending—because we certainly aren’t the world, we are just part of it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetc
The Updated S+S City Guide Collection (opens the original)
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It’s the best time of the year to travel—the terrible heat waves are winding down, cities feel calmer and less packed with sweaty visitors. If you’re getting ready for a trip, you’re in luck because several S+S city guides have just had a little brushing up. Below is the current collection of guides for natural wine lovers—and we’re working on more to share with you soon. <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUR9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/http
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