Dear Member,
In this collection, we invite you to ignore current events and join us on a journey to clear blue waters, red ochre sunsets, and the white stone ruins of a world long gone—but not forgotten.
We call this our Mediterranean Collection, though you will find no wines from the French, Italian, Spanish, or Greek mainland. Instead, we chose to explore the seas themselves: the Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian, and Tyrrhenian.
On Santorini, we found vines grown like baskets, rooted in soils layered with ancient volcanic deposits—the result of an eruption that likely ended the Minoan civilization and gave rise to the legend of Atlantis.
On Sicily, we discovered vines trained like small trees in the 3,000-year-old albarello style, and a wine Homer described as “fragrant as ambrosia and nectar.”
On Corsica, we encountered petra bianca, a limestone soil so hostile to pests that growers have little need for chemical intervention.
On Sardinia, we found the longest-lived population on earth—and their daily drink, Cannonau, a rare wine grown at elevation.
And we have only scratched the surface.
In This Box
You will find six bottles:
Vinicola Cherchi Cannonau di Sardegna 2018
Zisola Doppiozetta 2016
Planeta Maroccoli Sicilia Menfi DOC 2015
Clos Alivu Patrimonio 2018
Gainnikos Agiorgitiko “Lion” 2017
Artemis Karamolegos Assyrtiko 2018
From notes of flint, to lingering sea salt, to bouquets of lavender and dark cherry, our hope is that in these six bottles you will find dreams of distant shores—and of another world.
To your health,
Will Bonner
Founder, Bonner Private Wine Partnership
