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What’s up winos,

Been a while, ey! Did ya miss me? I’ve been here the whole time, packing, unpacking, pushing pallets of wine across Kingsland Road and trying not to get flattened by passing cars. All the gd stuff. Speaking of!

Hot new arrivals this week from La Sorga’s mind palace, a wacky and slightly frightening place to be. Something about his labels makes me feel like this guy keeps things in jars floating in formaldehyde in his bedroom. You know what I mean? Whatever, what u do on ur own time and all that. All that matters is what comes out of his brain and cellar. Weird, wonderful things. Every year he puts his considerable winemaking nouse towards a spanking new set of cuvees. Guess he gets bored easily? Bored is the exact opposite of what you’ll be after drinking any of these. I remember way back in the olden days when I was just a fresh faced Dan’s employee, I was so entranced by the sound of La Sorga’s wines that I saved up to buy one (back when I thought £40 for a bottle of wine was expensive, hahahahahahahahahaa, those were the days) and it did not disappoint. Really broadened my horizons about what wine could be. Are you sold yet? Good.

The Danse de Saint Guy O. (sidebar - I’m not even going to attempt to work out if the cuvee names mean anything. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Kind of like reading Gravity’s Rainbow. A fool’s errand) is Chenin + Chardonnay, and is the most heavily macerated of these newbies, so there’s a nice chewy tannin thing going on, alongside some warm, ripe fruit. Maitre Splinter is 90% Picpoul, but not as you know it - i.e. not served in a pub garden with a straw sticking out of it. La Sorga’s managed to draw out all kinds of aromatics from this normally v neutral grape, with a herbal kick and serious thirst-quenching freshness. The Calmos is a kooky blend of Colombard + Marsanne + Muscat d’Alexandrie + Sauvignon Blanc (bet u’ve never seen that before). An excellent use for all those varietals, IMO. Bright, zippy and salty with plenty of intrigue to boot. Finally, Montagne Sacree is Grenache Blanc, full of earl grey tea aromatics and mineral saltiness. As always with La Sorga, make sure you neck these in one sitting as they’re pretty volatile. But you won’t have any issues with that, will you?

On a slightly less edgy note, just had a top up of Parched’s own Georges Descombes (more pallets…………………..). All our fave entry level cuvees are back, plus a dreamy villages, a very old vine cuvee that we’ve kindly aged to perfection for you, and a stunning Beaujolais Blanc at an extremely friendly price. Two more old vine cuvees too, from Saint-Amour and Chiroubles, two lesser-known and severely underrated crus. Have at it.

Finally, two reccos just coz I drank them recently and they were freakin A - this gorge rose from Maxime Magnon which I smashed while smashing my housemates at a friendly game of Catan, and this Jerome Blin which I drank with my very particular and hard to please family. Guess what? They were pleased. They were also pleased when we went over to annoy the Ken’s family for the evening. That Lá Lốt pop up? JEEZ. Order the aubergine. Srsly.

That’s all! Love u!

xoxo

Megan