Paranormal Activity

In case it flew under your radar, our apricot-y, quince-y, fizzy piquette, made with Bryan Martin, is now on our shelves. As a Halloween treat, we’re giving away ~ a free bottle ~ of Paranormal Fizz with every in-shop retail purchase over $100 till next Friday. For the unacquainted, piquettes are not wine, but slightly fizzy alcoholic liquids, traditionally drunk by vineyard workers. Ours employs Chardonnay and Zibibbo skins and results in a plum-coloured liquid prime for hot-weather drinking. Very limited, 10% ABV.

Sun wine for sunshine (once the rain clears for good), via Momento Mori. Hannah and Dane’s Staring at the Sun is a fiano, vermentino and moscato giallo moment — orange in colour, tangy on the tongue. This liquid smells like high spring and tastes much the same. Locate citrusy acidity and chalky tannins. As it is every year this bottle is coveted, so move swiftly if you’d like it on any end-of-year-festivity table of yours.

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Prepared to get your spring drinking bottles in order? Peruse no further — this is one of our faves. Czech Republic's Milan Nestarec knows how to produce pét-nat and 380 Volts is a fine example. It’s a blend of Müller Thurgau, Neubürger and Muscat but all you urgently must know is that it drinks like a yellow Fruit Tingle. Only a few bottles floating around so you must procure faster than the speed of light. Hassett Park awaits. 

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Paranormal x picnic x park = a very good lockdown experience. The Paranormal Picnic Packs will be available on Saturdays and Sundays only for a little while longer. Packs include: a bottle of Paranormal wine, assorted charcuterie and cheese, a Sonoma Braddon baguette and Pepe Saya butter. For indoor or outdoor eating.

 Exciting, exciting, EXCITING news. A new Paranormal Wine collab is emerging: the 2021 Paranormal Fizz by Bryan Martin at Ravensworth. This is a piquette — not a vino but often confused for, 10% abv, water is added at first fermentation, unlike wine — made with chardonnay and zibibbo skins, exclusive for yours truly. It’s super fruity with apricot, quince and passionfruit vibes and is extremely special — it drinks like a pét-nat. Spring sipping SOON.

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Oh please let us rest here, with the fresh, crisp pages of Wine from Another Galaxy by Dan Keeling and Mark Andrew, owners of the renowned London bar Noble Rot. A 10/10 read about how to taste, how to order, how to speak and how to seek out new wine horizons. We suggest digesting this manual seaside Palermo, but for now, a chalice of Le Dolomies Les Boutonnières will do just fine.

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