Garnacha Blanca

From the Pyreness Mountains in the north of Spain, this mouth-watering Garnacha Blanca will have you coming back for more!

Steel fermented to preserve freshness and purity of fruit, with 4 months lees-aging to give texture and weight.

Frappato

Vito Lauria is known for organically-grown, minimal-intervention wines from Sicily. They focus on local and international varieties, but this rosé is 100% Frappato, which is an indigenous grape to Sicily.

This rosato is dry, floral, and zesty!

This has been the go-to by the glass rosé for Actinolite so far this summer. Maybe you’ve had a little sip in their gorgeous garden?

Sparkling Bläufrankisch

This second year collaboration between Grape Witches and Paradise Grapevine has resulted in a lightly sparkling, smack your lips, sweet and sour, raspberry sorbet- type of Bubbles! This Bläufrankisch was bottled with 12% residual sugar that kept fermenting in the bottle and created a gentle mousse that’s perfectly thirst-quenching for summer. 

This absolutely fits in with our “Buy Canadian” mentality of the moment, and we love a collab between 2 of our friends!

This wine is meant to be drunk with one of Actinolite’s herbaceous berry desserts of the summer on their gorgeous patio, enjoyed at a picnic in the park, or day-drinking on a cottage weekend by friends and lovers!

This is in the current Actinolite wine pairing, with the bread course, which involves some berries, and house-cured meats as well.

Take on a Gemischtersatz field blend: Chardonnay, Müller Thurgau, Pinot Blanc, Riesling and Kerner

The Brand Bros in Pfalz, Germany, took over the family mixed farm, and turned it into an organic vineyard. Funnily enough, with their concern for biodiversity, they are now turning the winery back into a farm!

These brothers are making some of the buzziest natural wine - this wine is from their ‘pur’ series. Co-fermented with wild yeast, this unfined and unfiltered wine is cloudy and playful. Think salted apricots, herbs, lemonade. Sunshine and picnics!

Nero D’Avola

This is a collab out of Alcamo, Sicily, with the historic Cantine Rallo and best buds les Caves des Pyrenes. Nero d’Avola is often a darker, more robust wine, but this wine is a dream for coasting through a meal. It still has all the dark fruit you want, but it is made in a much lighter and juicier style. It is made from cooler, higher altitude vineyards, preserving freshness and a florality. 

It’s a great table wine, and flows well through the meal. The menu at Actinolite is changing very often in the summer, but this is a great match with proteins of all sorts, especially with how. much flame-grilling is done. We recommend checking with Miguel about which bottle to bring in depending on the menu at that moment, but this is always a contender for a meal in which you will receive many different flavours!

Syrah

We wanted a summer red that was meatier, less ‘fruity’ and a little smokey - but still not too heavy - and this Syrah seemed like the obvious choice! From winemaker Matthieu Barret (nickname ‘petit ours brun’ or ‘little brown bear’), this Syrah from the Rhone Valley delivers. It is one of the most coveted, but approachable natural wines in France. We lovingly call it Disco Bear. Lighter in body, but with grippy tannins, this wine gives you all the peppery, meaty, smokiness you are searching for, without the weight.

We love this wine with our charcuterie and liver mousse, as well as with grilled meats from our Green Egg!