Winn-Dixie Partnership
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Natural Merchants' USDA certified organic wines are now available in select Winn-Dixie
stores throughout the state of Florida. All wines in the program are priced under
$20 per bottle.
The organic wines are featured in a wooden floor display
in select Winn-Dixie locations throughout Florida. Winn-Dixie will be offering
its customers educational information on organic wines and include Tasting
Notes, Pairings and Ratings for each of the featured selections.
Wines selected from Natural Merchants Selections'
portfolio include those from:
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Bodegas Iranzo - Spain's Oldest Estate Bottled
Winery
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Agrinatura - Italy's number-one organic producer
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Chateau Raymond - Bordeaux's largest producer of
organic wines
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La Cantina Pizzolato - Italy's number-one
selling organic wines
As more consumers integrate wine into their everyday organic lifestyles,
they'll be searching for a variety of quality, affordable wines made with
organically grown grapes. The Winn-Dixie partnership allows us a broader reach to those consumers.
"This is another opportunity for us to offer
our shoppers the products they have previously only found in specialty stores," said Robin
Miller, Winn-Dixie's director of communications. "It's all about offering our customers a
fresh and local shopping experience every time they visit our stores."
Organic wines will continue to be on
trend for 2009. According to WineCountry.com, "In an era in which concern over
global warming has reached a crescendo, sustainable and organic winegrowing
practices are more important - and more appreciated - than ever before. Their efforts will pay dividends for years to
come, and are already showing up in the bottle."
Read about the partnership here:
New organic wine program at select Winn Dixie stores Orlando Sentinel
South Florida Gourmet News
Drinks Media Wire
Trading Markets
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Award-Winning Wines |
Our fine organic wines continue to receive accolades in the BTI World Wine Championships.86-Highly Recommended Silver Medal & Best Buy air (Portugal) NV Antonio Lopes Ribeiro, Alentejo
Ruby black color. Aromas of cherry pie, roasted tomato, sandalwood
incense and clove follow through on a soft, brisk entry to a dryish
light-to-medium body with tart black cherry skin and cedar notes.
Finishes with a crisp baked apple and spice cake fade.
88-Highly Recommended Silver MedalVERTVS 2004 Tempranillo Crianza
Garnet color. Creamy pistachio nougat, chocolate mint, cherry, and
pepper jelly aromas follow through on a soft, supple entry to a dryish
medium body with tangy blackberry and sweet tomato notes. Finishes with
a refreshing chocolate covered citrus peel, wet stone, and chewy tannin
fade. A nice food wine to pair with sausages and chops.84-Recommended Bronze MedalVERTVS 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo Deep ruby black color. Aromas of baked cherries, cinnamon spiced nuts,
and pork fat follow through on a round entry to a dry medium body with
dusty mineral and tart blackberry notes. Finishes with a touch of brown
apple, soot, and nutskins on the firm tannic fade.81-Recommended Bronze MedalVERTVS 2007 Tempranillo Deep ruby black color. Smoky crispy bacon fat, stewed okra, cherry
coulis, and faint rubber eraser aromas follow through on a brisk, entry
to a sweet and sour light to medium body with pickle, nut, and cinnamon
notes. Finishes n a chewy tannin fade with singed tree bark,
peppercorn, and slate notes. An edgy, smoky red to pair with grilled
venison.
82-Recommended Bronze Medal L De Lagarde 2007 Bordeaux Rouge
Garnet violet color. Dried leaf, berry stem, and sweet spice aromas follow
through on a brisk entry to a austerely dry light-to-medium body with dusty
flavors, berry seeds, and a charred pepper accents. Quick, chalky, green tomato
of vine fade with hard tannins. (tasted on Nov-24-2008)
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Sites We Love
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DenverExaminer.com-Organic Wine Match of the Day
Randy Caparoso is an award winning Denver-based wine journalist and restaurant
wine consultant. Believing that wine is a food like a rose is a rose, he writes
about the best and latest wines for the foods we love to eat most.
MyDailyWine.com Taking the junk out of your juice. Wine news and
reviews from California, with an Organic bent. Amy Atwood is a dedicated explorer of wine, food, sake, new places and people.
Vinography.com A complete list of wine blogs
How to Choose Organic Wines A video primer.
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Greetings!
Every year, around
this time, as the fresh new young wines from the harvest are making their
debuts, we are out there spanning the globe to secure the best organic wines
available. This year is no different with
visits to France, Germany, Spain, etc. in this last month.
Whether it is buying up the organic harvest
of a single winery or an entire region we are out there securing the best
sources of this precious limited commodity. We hope you will enjoy our latest finds and look forward to an
opportunity to share them with you.
As always, we look forward to your feedback and suggestions.
Sincerely,
Edward Field Natural Merchants |
Organic Wine in the News
Interesting tidbits about organic wines
Search for 2009 trends reveals grains of truth and buckwheat
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI-USA
They are artisan or micro-distilled liquors, culinary cocktails (concoctions
created to complement specific foods) and organic wine. ...
Organic wine has come a long way
The Oxford Times - Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Yet,
there they were, selling their new range of wines to a comparatively humble
organic wine merchant and I found the tables dramatically turned. ...
Under the scope: Fermenting on organic purchases
McGill
Daily - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
But what
is organic wine, and why
should consumers fork over extra cash for a certification sticker? The
processes of making organic wine and regular wine ...
How to Have a Green Wedding
Perfect Wedding Guide Some
caterers offer organically grown food, including organic beer and wine.
The per person food cost may be a bit higher, but you will be serving
your guests fresh, pesticide-free food.
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Wines from Our Fine Organic Portfolio in the News
Organic
wine match of the day: Pizzolato Prosecco, shrimp & nail polish
Denver Examiner Man, I feel like a woman. It never did feel right
whenever I got to that line in Shania Twain's song. But what the hey: it's a
catchy thing, and so is the Pizzolato Prosecco IG7 (about $13) - a light, easy,
mildly ...
Living the dream, organic wines from Natural Merchants
My Daily Wine The folks at Natural Merchants have a pretty good gig. ... Kudos
to Natural Merchants! Their vision has become a successful
reality. ...
Organic wine & food matching Culinary Wine & Food Adventures
Sometimes we forget how old the fine arts - like literature, wine judging, and great winemaking - really are. There are written records from the court of King Pedro I of Castilla in Spain, for instance, dating Bodegas Iranzo back to 1335...
Tarantas Cava Brut Drink What You Like This particular sparkler would make a great dinner party aperitif or light sipping wine for vegging at home eating take out.
Organic wine match of the day: Vertvs Tempranillo & Hawaiian beef stew
Examiner.com
- USA
Evidently,
the family of Iranzo Perez-Duque is still going strong after over six hundred
years, as our organic wine of the day - Bodegas Iranzo's 2003 Iranzo's 2003 Vertvs
Tempranillo Crianza (about $14) - is as bright, rose petal fresh, raisiny ripe
and ...
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Bodegas Iranzo, with
vintners from the Iranzo
Perez-Duque family, produces the
Oldest Estate Bottled Wines in Spain.
The first recorded written evidence of the vineyard Ca�ada Honda Estate owned by the Iranzo Perez-Duque family dates
back to 1335 as granted by King Pedro I of Castilla. Bodegas Iranzo is the only vineyard in Europe
located in a National Reserve Park.
The
present house of the Iranzo P�rez-Duque family in Requena was built in 1794,
and is classified as a Cultural Heritage site by the Valencia Regional
Government.
Since 1994 Bodegas Iranzo has exclusively produced
wine from organically grown grapes making the winery one of the
oldest-established vineyards in Spain
to apply this European Organic regulation. Bodegas
Iranzo is one of the first bodegas in Spain
to be certified EU organic and the FIRST bodega in Spain to receive USDA National
Organic Program certification.
This traditional artisan wine making craft passed on
for family generations combined with the exclusive organic agriculture and wine
making process results in obtaining the finest of Organic Spanish Red Wines.
Environmental Protection-A
Commitment to Organic Farming
For the Iranzo Perez-Duque family, the practice of organic
farming reflects a wider view of the management of natural resources which has
led it, since the 1950s, to reforest over 30 hectares with native woodland
species.
The
family has also promoted the establishment of concepts such as a Flora Micro-Reserve
and a Biological Station prohibiting hunting, which have made the Ca�ada Honda
estate the largest environmentally protected area in the Valencian Community.
The Vineyard The present vineyard was designed and laid out in 1983 with a
view to achieving two distinct but complemen-tary objectives: the production of
wines of the finest quality; and total respect for the environment. The volume
of wine produced takes second place to both these objectives.
The Vintage Francisco Gabald�n, the company's
enologist who is also the Professor of Enology at the
Oldest School of Enology in Spain,
carefully monitors the degree of ripeness on each of the parcels into which the
estate is divided, in order to decide the optimum moment to begin harvesting
each one.
The Winery & Cellars
The buildings housing the winery and cellars were built
between 1916 and 1929. They have been declared Cultural Heritage sites by the
Valencian Government.
Sensitive
restoration and redevelopment of the buildings began in 1997, incorporating the
latest winemaking technology without altering the original architectural lines.Aging
Wines destined for aging in wood remain in Bordeaux barrels not more than 3 years old
for periods varying from 4 to 16 months.
Their final grading as Aged in Wood, Crianza or
Reserva depends on how long they remain in the barrel. The wines continue to
age in the bottle until they reach optimum quality.
Contact us for more information about the wines of Bodegas Iranzo:[email protected]. |
About Natural Merchants
Natural Merchants, LLC is one of North America's leading Importers and Distributors of the finest natural and organic foods and wines direct from the European and Mediterranean regions. The Natural Merchants Selections program highlights more than 150 carefully selected wines from Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, France and Portugal, grown in unique organic terroir, each vineyard producing clean, fresh superior wines that are both good for the earth and tantalizing for the palate. Selections from our portfolio of organic wines can be found in natural retail stores and accessed through traditional U.S. wine distributors across the country.
We look forward to hearing from you to help with all of your organic wine needs.
North American Office Rich Wright 2001 Foothill Blvd., 2C Grants Pass, OR 97526, USA Tel: 1.866.324.5333 1.541.582.6200 Fax: 1.541.582.6211 [email protected]
European Office Pilar Merono C/Carmen 10, 1� Izq. 30201 Cartagena SPAIN Tel: +34.968.32.15.11 Fax: + 34.968.32.15.50 + 34.902.51.90.09
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