#Deux Punx Wines

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Deux Times Deux.5

How does *natural wine* age? GOOD natural wine? Well, let’s find out. Thin and transparent, showing just a breath of garnet across rather bright ruby-pink swells. Latex gloves and kinda scorched-earth blackberry in the nose–plentiful air doesn’t really change that. It’s sullen and toasty, broodingly deep and dark, with chubby vegetal lurking. In the mouth, things get considerably brighter: sweet…

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2018 Deux Punx Rose of Pinot Gris Santa Cruz County, California Pink wine

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The World’s Largest Natural Wine Festival is Popping Off Downtown This Weekend

If you’ve frequented bars such as Tabula Rasa, Marvin, or Bandini, shopped for bottles at Lou, DomaineLA, or Psychic Wines, or perused the drink list at restaurants like Bestia, Night + Market, or Kismet, you may already be familiar with natural wine. Broadly speaking, it refers to wines grown and produced with minimal input and intervention, and as a movement it’s been championed over the past decade by a growing coalition of winemakers, importers, sommeliers, restauranteurs, and general beverage enthusiasts.

Curious what all the hype is about? Consider getting your glou-glou on at L.A.’s RAW WINE Fair, a $60 ticketed tasting event on November 11 and 12 that offers an opportunity to taste 500+ natural/low-intervention/organic/biodynamic wines from 100+ growers and producers across the world. The fair was founded in 2012 by London-based sommelier, author, and natural wine evangelist Isabelle Legeron—the first French woman to be certified as a Master of Wine. Over the years RAW WINE has spread to New York, Berlin, and recently, Los Angeles, which held its inaugural shindig in 2017.

Legeron is understandably excited to return to L.A. for another run, especially as California’s natural wine scene has continued to mature. “The scene here is so different from what’s happening in New York or Europe. There’s a lot of excitement and growth,” she says. “Last year’s event was very well attended, but in our second year more people know we are here, so there’s more events happening, more growers attending, more importers. I’ve even heard of some people traveling from the UK or Europe to taste wines here, which would have seemed very unusual a few years ago.”

Along with cult-favorite winemakers like Italy’s Frank Cornelissen and Austria’s Gut Oggau, this year’s roster includes exciting local names like Coturri Winery from Sonoma County, Deux Punx from the North Coast, and Rajat Parr’s Santa Rita Hills label Domaine de la Côte. Legeron says that about 30 growers in total—with some from Oregon, Texas, and other parts of the U.S.—are unique to the L.A. fair.

Though RAW WINE attracts both food and drink professionals (don’t be shocked if you spy your favorite chef sniffing a glass of Chenin) and civilians, Legeron sees the gathering as serving the same function for each group: uniting what is still a relatively small industry, raising awareness about natural wine, and turning more drinkers on to the good stuff. For first-timers, Legeron recommends pacing yourself and focusing on a certain region (i.e., Spain, Croatia, Greece) or type of wine (skin-contact, pet-nats) that you find interesting, so as not to become overwhelmed. “Most of the people pouring the wine are also the ones who grew it, so you really have a chance to learn about their backstory and journey,” she says. “If you connect the wine with an actual person, it becomes a lot more memorable.”

If you’re unable to make the fair, there’s also #RawWineWeek, a host of collaborative one-offs between restaurants and winemakers they admire, including wine list takeovers at Hayden, The Freedhand Hotel, Tsubaki, P.Y.T., and many more (see the whole list here). That synergistic spirit dovetails nicely with what Legeron adds is one of her favorite parts about traveling to the West Coast: “I’m always excited about the quality of food that is paired with wine here. When I’m in L.A., I know I’m going to eat well and drink well.”

RAW WINE Fair L.A., Sunday, November 11 and Monday, November 12; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; City Market Social House, 1145 South San Pedro Street, downtown. Tickets are $60 for single-day access; $95 for two-day access. 

RELATED: You Should Seek Out the Natural Wines at These L.A. Spots

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Source: https://www.lamag.com/lafood/the-worlds-largest-natural-wine-festival-pops-off-downtown-this-weekend/

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#20 Nous Étions Deux

Adam Green // Buddy Bradley

Johnny Cash // Riders in the sky

The Do // Stay (just a little bit more)

Hunx and his Punx // Lovers Lane

Patricia Botton // Disco

The Peddlers // On a clear day you can see forever

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood // Summer wine

Jim Ford // Working my way to L.A

Nico // Wrap your troubles in dreams

Elliott Smith // Because 

Crédits image : Max Carcaly

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Pineapple Express

One of the things I’ve been impressed with in my experience with this producer is the ability to get it ripe when it needs to be and avoid some of that heaviness when it doesn’t need it. And let’s get an oft-alleged place-mark OFF the table: alcohol level has NOTHING to do with ‘natural wine’. Typically, ABV is trotted out in low-intervention wines as litmus to their standings in that category,…

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Anyone for tennis? Wouldn't that be nice.

A beautiful, crisp, fruity addition to a hot socal night. Feels almost like Malvasia in its depth of of fresh, up-front lychee and crazy nectarine. Some *natural wine* sediment clouding the bottom of the flint glass, turbidity throughout. Haricot verts and Caltrans mowing blow a vegetal beauty across the nose, grassy and briary in a funk blessedly lacking in ���cidery’ nuances. In the mouth, a…

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Roofied

Last night’s wine showed brash reflections of a barely-of-age wine, but what does a Grenache which tastes nearly as wild on release feel like with a couple years under its belt? Clear, murky amber out to thin yellow at the rim. A nose positively glowing with ripe cherry and lush under-growth, mountain stream splashing rocks on its way to wider, much calmer green depths and finally to saline…

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Three of What?

Three more dissimilar wines could not be imagined. Not that I opened them as comparitive studies… just random pops from the cellar on a slow night. The Dragonette continues to impress with its dearth of ripeness in the face of bitter structure. Delightfully thin of body while manifesting ALL the things true die-hards demand in a pinot. Glorious piquantness rides easily on wings of obscure berry…

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Pet Blanc

Glorious Muscat–there’s no mistaking it for its explosive tropical fruit nose. And here, it juxtaposes the sharp bite of sparkle with delicate aplomb. A tasty drop with copious sprite and acid. Lovely in all ways. Clean and direct, sweet in the right spots–austere in others. I keep telling myself the pet-nat craze is over, and these just get better and better. 2022 DEUX PUNX Muscat Blanc Pet-Nat…

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Orange Expectations

Such a pretty little wine. Gorgous nose of almost Malvasia sorta lush fruit–maybe a bit of Gewurtz in there–just so flowery and tropical and fruity with the distinct background of gritty acid. In the mouth, it shies away from any expectations of lush fruitiness though: where it goes stark and beautifully-stuffed with crisp green apple and gobs of acid all playing on a field of demure…

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Du Haste

I love pulling out these little *low-intervention* wonders out of the cellar with WAY TOO MUCH age on them. They develop so differently–or maybe not so… just *different*. Gobs of milky sediment a the bottom, a nose with distinct toastiness: kinda a burnt-rubber nuance right where the mineral and tropical leave off. Tasting it is a sharp experience, with definite sprite feeling along the tongue.…

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Orange is the New Grey

I was drinking Pinot Gris before orange wine was trendy. How about you? The OG skin-contact grape, here marketed as “rosé” in probably a smart move. Gotta cover all bases, ya know? Dank and dusty nose, crushed velvet vegetal and compost over a butterscotch sort of milk chocolate base. Rich and fluid over the tongue, a sharp acidic grip chalking and charging all points. Aged-wine in texture–I…

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Deux-able

Deep golden, and with some lees and a bit of turbidity, this bottle of wine from the original SBC proves *natural* can co-exist with the lush flavors of Chardonnay. Bright, fresh nose sparkling with acid, pear and dusty citrus. Clean and refreshing on the palate, it churns with certain green apple before going rather meaty and full. Not super-complex, more of a wash of all things classic, but in…

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Deux Tell

I can’t coax ANY kind of a nose out of this wine. And yes, I went and checked a couple other glasses–just to make SURE!–because… you know: we all have THAT fear to live with now. It’s not me. This wine literally has no nose. Just the vaguest, thinnest wisp of something maybe headed floral on a little honeyed concrete. Tried a variety of temperatures–and considerable air. It merely refuses to…

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rawr

Sweet ratchety fruit, bruised and blunt with weedy angst. Curvy cherry lays down pompous beats of hot-rod day-glo and tire rubber in a brilliant light ruby headed purple haze and fire-engine sunsets. Clean and chalky in the nose, portions of a bitter green tattoo visible where touchable lines head down into imagination. “Ah yes,” my Zinfandel friend says, “let me introduce you to some of my…

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Grey is the color of my heart.

Grey is the color of my heart.

National Orange Wine day, and what better way to do it that with the grandfather of orange wine: Straight-up PINOT GRIS? Yeah… you can have all your skin-contact stuff and newfangled weirdness and I’ll just sit back with the original and smile. And laugh a little. What’s old is new again. Anything to chase likes and the hallowed *engagement*.

Are we calling this rosé pink? No, not even a little…