Vinyl Wine

11/23/2022

The EP is our cheeky take on an 'Extended Play' record, which usually features 4-5 songs from a musical artist or group. it's our low stakes, high rewards monthly subscription that gives you a lens into the 'music' of the moment, in the form of wine, curated by Vinyl Wine owner and wine buyer, Mike Faircloth.

choose between Side A (2 bottles) or Side AB aka the whole EP (4 bottles). make a one-time purchase, or subscribe for however long you fancy. hint: Mike's got a killer taste, so don't think twice on the whole shebang.

this would also make a great gift! wines can be picked up at the shop or delivered to anywhere in the general NYC area (except Staten Island, sry).

10/13/2022

is back 👾
And the
HARVEST SALE
ain't over
TIL WE SAY SO.

!!! ALSO !!!
NEWSFLASH ::
Our new site
IS LIVE
even if we feel
ransacked, spooked and
a li'el DEAD inside ☹️
( and isn't as easy as one would think.)

How are you today?
Thirsty? Pensive? Prodigal?
Awe. Let us help.
Go check out our new site.
FYI: It's a WORK IN PROGRESS...so don't judge.
Thanks for being patient during this transition.
And buy all these wines.

Spend $30+ get 15% OFF
In-store / online.
Use code: HARVEST
YES, we deliver across NYC.

10/03/2022

boo x 2 👽
HARVEST SALE
still
HAPPENING
until
the end of
TIME.

Jk. Until all of these
cuvées are GONE.

Spend $30+ get 15% OFF
In-store / online.
Use code: HARVEST
YES, we deliver across NYC.

Mercury is direct. Giddy up.

10/01/2022

boo 👽
HARVEST SALE
begins
TODAY
until
all of these
are
86ed.

Spend $30+ get 15% OFF
When you buy
Any of THESE wines.
In-store / online.
Use code: HARVEST.
YES, we deliver across NYC.

NO, we cannot save your soul.
But maybe wine can.

New website
is also
coming
v
soon.
Stay
tuned.

08/10/2022

If you can’t be in Italy right now, then we can at least help ease the jealousy.

04/14/2022

Michael the Explorer goes to Spain...

#

03/03/2022

Thinking about turning the shop into a vinyl karaoke bar that only serves tequila and highly allocated bottles of natural wine we thrifted from the black market. Make UES cool. Who's in?

🇦🇹

02/12/2022

Newsflash:: this is whey cooler than your average gin.

created this nonpareil libation known as their in a wooden barn, in a tiny town called Bovina, nestled in the Western Catskills, in late 2021. Details are everything. And you can find all of them in our linktree where I wrote a whole little spiel about who they are and the magic they are whipping up.

This gin is the . Yes, figuratively, and also literally. They add a touch of raw honey from the bees on the distillery's property at the very end, which adds that extra dimension of symbiosis (and subtle sweetness), in addition to its rounding and softening effects that bring total equilibrium on the palate.

Other ingredients: handpicked wild foraged apples from 100+-year-old trees on 's farm; Organic Assam tea leaves from ; dried apples and pears; and a tantalizing selection of botanicals like cassia bark and angelica root, among others.

BUT THE BEST PART!? They use their OG gin as the base, which is made with 100% up-cycled (yes that cloudy water stuff that gathers at the top of greek yogurt or soft cheeses and is typically thrown out which is so sad/lame). Sustainability is their middle name. And we love everything they do.

Grab a bottle before they're gone. $51.99 and worth every penny.

02/12/2022

02/03/2022

b-sides :: Lambrusco Mantova (Italy) Pt. II

🍇 100% organically farmed (Lombardia)
* lambrusco ruberti aka lambrusco viadanese
from

🌿dry, unctuous, medium-bodied fizz /
swirls of black cherry, blueberry & bramble /
roses & olives & tendrils of charm /
pure like an unlabelled bottle of vino from the local taverna / pairs particularly well with earthy flavors & cool, capricious weather / give it a light chill / & serve in good, wholesome company.

🔎 Native yeast fermentation via "pied de cuve" in stainless steel vats / skin macerated for 4-5 days for moderate tannins / finishes fermentation in the metodo ancestral (pet nat style) with minimal sulfur added.
..Up until the 1970s, most Lambruscos were vinified dry, and many were made in the 'col fondo' style (which is basically the Italian way of saying unfiltered, natural wine with lees contact.) Off-dry and sweet Lambruscos were few and far between.

However, once exportation took off, the large Lambrusco producers began altering the wines’ innate structure (& ethos) by making uncharacteristically SWEET renditions of the red sparkling fizz to accommodate America's notorious sweet tooth.

For the next decade, sweet Lambrusco was the largest selling imported wine in the US. Until it wasn't. But its sweet tasting stigma has yet to fully dissipate, some 20 odd years later. Newsflash: DRY LAMBRUSCO EXISTS. And this one is as close to the real good stuff you'll find for a price you can't beat: $22.99.

As for country music, the 90s marked a radical departure for the genre as a whole. Pop country - like pop music - began to sound less soulful and folksy, and more manipulated/one dimensional. Kind of like what happened with sweet Lambrusco's heyday in 70s /80s era USA. Big productions, big money, and the burgeoning flame of the internet gave birth to country music's reimagined narrative. Nowadays, the amount of hybrid genres out there - like country rap or 'freak folk' - only make the case for going back & drinking/listening to the originals/classics/vitis labrusca that much stronger.

01/31/2022

b-sides ::

🍇 RUBERTI (Italy)
* Lambrusco ruberti aka Lambrusco viadanese (Lombardy)

🔎 What is Lambrusco? In a few words: a vinous anomaly. Often misunderstood & lamentably pigeonholed, it’s both a style of wine and *red*-skinned grape that is *Italian* and more often than not, made in the *frizzante* style. But for the record, Lambrusco is not always a red wine, and not always sparkling.

Its history is rich & farrrr reaching, to say the least.
In fact, rumor has it that Lambrusco is likely the oldest family of indigenous grape varieties in all of Italy—with at least 50 different known varieties in existence, ruberti being one of the rarest.

Alas, when most Americans hear ‘Lambrusco’ they think, “Ah, sweet sparkling red wine.”
And herein lies the core of confusion & the druthers of the b-side.

The story of Lambrusco reminds me a bit of country music’s post-industrial bastardisation.
Country music has its roots in folk (less a genre and more a stylistic umbrella), whose roots stem back to the African American spirituals of the 18th century, so on and so forth. What happened? In both scenarios, their reputations & origin stories were lambasted, exploited & somewhat distorted by Big Business & Big “Ag”.

If folk music “refers to a style of music universal within a community,” then Lambrusco (which derives from the Latin word labrusca, which literally means wild) is what I would consider a folk wine.

Originally vinified by the Etruscans — the ancient people of Italy — Lambrusco’s eminence as a wine of cultural posterity greatly persisted in the years leading up to the Second World War, where it
became the true “wine of the people”: a story-song tradition passed down from generation to generation.

Stay tuned for part II...

01/11/2022

From the INFINITE MIXTAPE archives ::

's Basadone grows on the rich clay & limestone laden soils of the Massara and Olmo crus in Verduno. For you nebbiolo lovers out there, the name ‘Verduno’ may ring a bell, and Barbaresco and Barolo may come to mind. While you’re not wrong, consider this an invitation to fall deeper in love with the region’s *original* treasure: piccolo. For centuries, this grape thrived in Verduno and its neighboring stretches; this grape had some serious clout back in the day; a pawn for both feudal bribery and bourgeois seduction.

Time elapsed, however, and with it, pelaverga piccolo’s prestige. Not to mention . After going nearly extinct in the second half of the 20th century, debased as a third-tier varietal, in 1972, viticulturist Gabriella Burlotto (basically) single-handedly saved it from such a travesty. She decided to plant an entire vineyard of it; and the results proved to be well worth the risk. Key words: intuition and foresight.

Today, wines made from this grape and region are known as Verduno Pelaverga and are essentially what put Verduno back on the map. Hats off to , and the numerous vignaioli they inspired to follow suit.

Practicing organic. Native yeasts. Unfined, unfiltered. Minimal SO2. Their ‘Basadone’ cuvée is an ode to the local name for ‘wild poppy’, whose double entendre, steeped in local lore, can be understood as ‘little kiss’ or ‘lady’s kisser’ for its supposed aphrodisiac properties.

🍇:: pelaverga piccolo

👃👅 :: Basadone feels like a visit from your fairy godmother. She’s elegant and whimsical and never without her bag of treats. Bright red forest fruits keep the verve alive, while traces of pink peppercorn reveal the wine’s present, but subtle tannic backbone. But, nothing shines more than the wild floral notes that Basadone is really all about: poppy.

🌿💞:: Pairs beautifully with a wide variety of foods (think antipasti) & good with a light chill, though not necessary. / 👂 (also: Sade’s Lover’s Rock) / 🍷 drink year round; age up to 3 years.