Finally! They’re here! Ruth Lewandowski’s pure and precise zero zero wines are some of our favourite natural wines ever ever ever. We’ve been working to get these wines to Ontario for almost 5 years and it’s a dream come true that they’re finally here in tiny volumes. This savoury, smokey red is a GWI exclusive aka this is the only place to get it in Ontario. :)

Ruth Lewandowski, ‘Boaz’, Carignan & Cab Sauv & Grenache, Mendocino County, CA Boaz is a blend of old vine Carignan, Grenache & Cab Sauv, which were all planted in 1912, which give off big time vibes of wisened ayahuasca cowboy hippie who’s seen it all i.e. this wine would be played by Sam Elliott in a movie. Sturdy, fiery Carignan accounts for the bulk of the three-grape blend, Grenache just kind of pokes its head in to cheer us up with some chipper gummi fruit vibes, whereas Cabernet Sauvignon pulls its classic Cab Sauv move of showing up the party & making the entire thing about itself, imparting a heap of its signature spicy graphite snarl onto Carignan’s blackberry acid dance party. Grapes are co-fermented in whole clusters, then aged in neutral oak barriques. Unfined, unfiltered, no added sulphites. Winemaker Evan Lewandowski describes this wine as being “burly” but still “focused”— that intense, almost transcendant focus is Evan’s signature. There is a lightness of being present in all Evan’s wines, which is particularly remarkable as a quality of this fuller-bodied, loosely Bordeaux-inspired red. Although it is spicy, rich & layered, it never weighs you down. Fruit flavours are dark, baked & stewed: cinnamon-spiked blackberry pie filling, charred & grilled plum. Mineral flavours are smoky & deep, leathery allspice horse saddle, cedar box of dried tobacco. Burning sage, balanced tannin, salted black cherry. Sip after sunset on a late summer evening, a delicate breeze in your hair & a big old scrappy mutt at your feet.