Please join us for a Mother’s Day Wine Tasting this Saturday. We will be featuring Natural / Low-Intervention wines from our friends at NATTY WINE. NATTY WINE brings some of the most adventurous and interesting wines from around the world to the U.S. and we could not be more thankful for it. Allison from NATTY WINE will be here to sample a few wines, and share the story of the incredible winemakers that create these stunning wines made using little or no-intervention. We hope to see you Saturday and make sure to bring mom with you!
NATTY WINE X DBW Mother’s Day Flowers:
We will have a few of our hand-tied in house Mother’s Day Bouquets available during the tasting and will be offering a discount on the flowers if you purchase a bottle of wine featured in the tasting. What a Combo!
NATTY WINE:
Natty Wine was founded in DC by Victor Vasquez and Alexander Gable in 2017 as a wine pop-up and event organization company. After several years of research and saving, they made their first series of imports in 2019. Starting with just two pallets of wines from four small Italian winemakers, they now have a growing portfolio of 20+ producers partners from France, Slovakia, Slovenia and Italy; most of which are making less than ten thousand bottles a year.
Inspired by their years of experience working in specialty coffee and service industries, they both found a mutual mission to improve the level of connectivity from producers to final customers, while still taking real steps towards ensuring what you have in your glass is an honestly-made product.
In the early stages of the companies development, Alex was working as a wine and food journalist and researcher in Italy and part time as a sommelier at Milano's Cantine Isole. Alex is still based full time in Northern Italy and works out of our tiny office near Lecco to facilitate regular producer visits and research.
Victor is based full time in the Mid-Atlantic US, and set the stage for Natty Wine's distribution channels and organized the business structure. He manages sales and tastings for NY and the DMV, hosts events and manages all domestic logistics. You can also find him spinning and slinging artisanal gelato at Dolcezza Gelato in DC.
IMPORT SELECTIONS:
The focus of our selections is on hand-crafted beverages that we discover through everyday Italian life. Whether experienced at a trattoria in Langhe or while partying on a dock in Venezia, each and every selection is connected to a real experience that was just too good not to share.
It's not all bells and whistles. To guarantee the integrity of our producer partners to our customers, we personally visit their vineyards and cellars during moments when vineyard labor is in action and wine is being made to inspect production and labor practices at least once a year.
Transparency is at the heart of our mission and we're in the field while working to build a better, more inclusive and more informed direct trade importation system.
