Devenish Wines

10/14/2026

Moretti Omero Terre di Giano 2025! Rich, full, juicy 100% Ciliegiolo from one of the highest elevation spots in Montefalco

You can find this at Walpole Barn, Waldoboro Inn, 44 North, Rayr, Crooked Spoon, First Fig, Vessel & Vine, Maine & Loire, and the Blue Hill W**e Shop

I've visited Moretti Omero and his daughter Giusy in Umbria a whole slew of times. They’re a great family w**ery that’s unpretentious but also thoughtful and working at a high level. Moretti Omero was effectively started by Omero Moretti (Omero is the Italian version of the name Homer) back in 1991. His father had made some w**e but it was small scale and Omero had started out with olive oil production and pig farming. Years ago he told me that the neighbors all complained about the smell of the pigs so much that he had to quit! It was good timing though as the Montefalco Rosso DOC was starting to take off and the Sagrantino di Montefalco DOC had just been created. **e **e

10/12/2026

Tenuta La Favola 'Fravolato' Frappato 2025! A gorgeous, unique, and more structured expression of Frappato.

This bottling is 100% frappato, farmed organically on limestone and marl soil close to the sea. Hand harvested and then spontaneous fermentation with the skins for 10 days.  Aged in stainless steel after that.  This is a classically flavored Frappato, but it’s got more mineral structure and force of presence than I’m used to. Filippo’s Frappato from Lamoresca is my go to, but that comes from sandier soil and is more distant from the coast. Corrado’s Frappato is delicious and a different expression.

10/09/2026

10/04/2026

Conestabile della Staffa Case Sparse Orange! Delicious preserved and candied orange flavors with some aromatic thyme and oregano too!

Available at Maine & Loire, First Fig, Folk, and Table Bar

Case Sparse orange is made from 30 year old Grechetto vines grown at the Conestabile della Staffa estate.  The age of the vines combined with the rocky calcareous soil makes for great mineral structure. The vines are completely naturally farmed, the grapes are hand harvested, and then the juice ferments spontaneously in open top vats. This has a pretty longer maceration, but without too many punch downs, so the w**e isn’t too tannic and is not oxidative.

09/29/2026

Badini Olive Oil is back in stock!

09/24/2026

Eric Texier 'Brezeme' Cote du Rhone 2023! Classic spicy hedonistic Northern Rhone Syrah from a master!

Available at W**e House in Main, Brasserie le Brun, Now You're Cooking, Broad Arrow Farm, and Salt Wharf

Brezeme is a little appellation at the southern edge of the northern Rhone.  It's actually very exposed to winds coming over from the Alps and is a particularly cold climate.  The soil is a rocky mix of decayed limestone and clay.  This is 100% Syrah from vines that are about 30 years old.  This has one week of whole cluster maceration and then finishes fermentation and ages in cement tanks.  Both Brezeme and St Julien en St Alban were almost forgotten and abandoned as w**e regions 20 years ago.  Eric was lucky to discover them and find excellent old vineyard sites that produce complex racy w**es thanks to the cooler temperatures and rocky hillside locations.

09/21/2026

Conestabile della Staffa Case Sparse Cabernet Sauvignon! Gorgeous dark Juicy spicy fruit, but poised and fresh!

Danilo surprised me with a Cabernet he had made from grapes grown by a friend of his in the hills up above lake Trasimeno. Danilo helped advise on the farming and then the farmer had more fruit than he needed and gave Danilo a great deal on some of the grapes. So Danilo made a Cabernet Sauvignon as an experiment! I was very skeptical when he brought it out; “Danilo making Cabernet?” I thought “what next, Ferrari making an electric SUV? Sacrilige!” But the Cabernet is actually fantastic. It has deliciously dark and dense fruit but it’s still juicy and has a freshness. And of course it has the minerality and tension that Danilo imbues all his w**es with. It’s 12.5% alcohol and beautifully balanced. So I asked him to put a Case Sparse label on it and I bought it! This fermented spontaneously and had a shortish maceration in open little 1000L vats before going into inert resin tanks and then being bottled.

09/16/2026

Galognano 'SANTRe' Rosato 2024! Deliciously elegant and dry Tuscan rose!

Available at the Brooklin Inn, Blue Hill W**e Shop, and the Blue Hill Inn

Santre is a blend of 85% Sangiovese with 15% Trebbiano blended in.  The grapes are hand harvested, destemmed, and ferment spontaneously in concrete tank. Erika leaves the skins in for about 2 days and then transfers the w**e. After fermentation is all done she transfers the w**e off the sediment and lets it rest in concrete for another 5 months before bottling.

09/15/2026

Scala Ciro Rosato 2025! Beautiful, dry, elegant rose with dried cherry and dried oregano flavors

Available at Bow St Beverage, Board, Maine and Vine, Vessel and Vine, Blue Hill W**e Shop, Maine Meat, Alna Store, Oak Hill, and First Fig

We just got in our yearly pallets of the Scala w**es from Calabria!  Calabria is the toe of the Italian boot; it's a mountainous, volcanic, sunny peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean.  There’s been w**e making since the time of the Odyssey.  It should produce incredible w**es!  It seems odd I've always had a hard time finding exciting examples.  I've always been told that most w**e production here isn't trying to be special or very serious, more quantity over quality, but that's just made me even keener to look for good w**es.  Scala is one of the best of the small handful I've found. They're in Ciro which is the best regarded and most internationally known DOC (that's not saying much). This small organic w**ery has been in the Scala family for about 200 years.  For a lot of that time it was an orchard but back in 1965 the family decided to replace the olives and citrus trees with grape vines.  The w**ery is run by third generation w**emaker Francesco.

09/13/2026

Texier Cotes du Rhone Rouge Chat Fou!

Available at Sissle and Daughters, Vinolio, Bow St Beverage, W**e House on Main, Vessel and Vine, Now You're Cooking, House W**e, Monte's, Black Birch, Nina June, John Edwards, and Brooklin General Store

This 2024 is drinking great! It tastes a bit riper and the fruit is a touch more Grenache-y, but it’s still super playful and bright! I feel like you can taste Eric’s sense of humour and playfulness as well as his focus and attention to detail. Chat Fou is Eric’s legendary approachable entry level w**e. In previous vintages this was a Cotes du Rhone made from grapes in vineyards Eric had long term relationships with, but he’s tried to stop that and just work with his own vineyards (which are closer to his w**ery and saves him a lot of driving). So this now comes from vineyards around Saint Julien en Saint Alban. The blend is 50% Grenache, 30% Cinsault, and 20% white Rhone grapes to keep the w**e fresh and bright and easy thirst quenching. The soils here are broken gravelly granite which provide nice minerality but also reflect a lot of heat, so Eric harvests them quite early.