Devenish Wines

08/23/2026

2025 Caneva da Nani is here! I love this wine. I love how it tastes and I love what it represents. It’s so thirst quenching and fun plus the price is still really great for what you get. It’s a wine made by a family going against the market consolidation and commercialization that dominates Prosecco.  And did I mention how super delicious and thirst quenching this is?  It is really absolutely fantastic!

Available at Nibblesford, Now You're Cooking, Black Birch, Vinolio, Bow St, Friends and Family, and Brooklin General Store

08/21/2026

Sassara 'Trebianel' 2025! Lovely fresh, round, summery white from up in northern Italy in the Bardolino DOC

Available at Folk, John Edwards, and St George Pizza

Trebianel is a blend of Trebbiano, Tocai Friulano, and Tebbianelo. this has a touch of skin maceration and ferments spontaneously without temperature control. Aged in stainless steel. No filtering or fining and no added sulfur.

08/20/2026

Oyster River Dry Cider! It's so dang delicious!

08/19/2026

Salvatore Marino 'Turi' Terre Siciliane Bianco 2024!

Available at Uproot Pie Co, 44 North, Maine & Loire, Regards, Treats, Walpole Barn, Sissle and Daughters, Sassafras Cafe, Bleecker and Greer, and Pulling Corks

100% Catarratto from the Buonivini contrada in Pachino. The grapes are destemmed and then macerate for 5 days in stainless steel as they ferment with indigenous yeast. The wine goes through malolactic fermentation and then racked off all of the heavy sediment into concrete tanks. It rests there until the spring after the harvest when it gets bottled.

08/18/2026

Stoeffler 'Classic' Cremant Blanc de Blanc Brut! Beautiful fizzy, fresh, lush Alsatian Cremant! It's always the right time for bubbles....

Available at Bleecker and Greer, La Laiterie, Pulling Corks, Sissle and Daughters, Lily Lupine and Fern, Salsbury Organics, Carousel Wine and Cheese, and Vessel ans Vine

This is Pinot Blanc, Auxerrois and a bit of Chardonnay. The wine spends 18+ months on the lees in old casks.

Adrien was born in Alsace, but his father Vincent and his mother split up when he was young and she moved with him to the south west of France, so that’s where Adrien actually grew up.  He went back to Alsace on holidays and in the summer to see his father, but really he grew up in the southwest. Eventually he went to university and actually became a banker working in international finance, but he really loved being outside and hiking and mountain climbing, he hated working at a computer all day. He also regretted that he was disconnected from his father and the whole wine making history of his family, so after lots of talk with his father in 2019 he quite his banking job and moved to Alsace to start working at his family’s domaine. He loved being outside and it was great being back with his father. Between his father and reading wine making text books he started to get a foundation in the technical process of wine making and he was learning by doing.

08/17/2026

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, 44 North, Lighthouse wine and Seafood, Vessel & Vine, Maine & Loire, and the Blue Hill Wine Shop

I've visited Moretti Omero and his daughter Giusy in Umbria a whole slew of times. They’re a great family winery 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 wine 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.

08/16/2026

Sassara 'Pinot Griso' 2024! Yes, skin contact Pinot Grigio from the Bardolino DOC! Super vibrant and thirst quenching!

Available at Folk, John Edwards, Bootleggers Topsham, Vessel and Vine, and Maine and Vine

Ripe Pinot Grigio with 3 days skin contact. Spontaneous fermentation without temperature control. Aged in stainless steel. No filtering or fining and no added sulfur.

08/14/2026

Sassara 'Esotico' Rose 2025

Available at 44 North, Bowdoinham Country Store, Maine and Vine, Sissle and Daughters, The Norumbega, Island Wine and Spirits, Friends ans Family,and the Wine Seller

It’s back! And now in the 2025 vintage! This dark rose/pale red is a coferment of red and white grapes.  It's 30% red grapes (Corvina, Rossanella, Rondinella, Molinara) and 70% white grapes (Fernanda, Moscato, Trebbianello, Trebbiano, Garganega, Tocai), all from old vines that are co-planted. Hand harvested and spontaneously co-fermented with 10 days of skin maceration and without temperature control. Aged in stainless steel. No filtering or fining and no added sulfur.

aroma: orange candy, kumquat, orange blossom, a bright mango aroma. This smells beautiful! Fresh and vibrant, the aroma is pretty powerful, but not heavy or cloying.

Taste: fresh energetic and joyful tasting; there's bright vibrant acidity and fresh clementine orange fruit. The mid palate has a delicious satisfying savory tasty salty mineral structure that hits my taste buds and gets my palate salivating! There's white wild flowers, hibiscus and rooibos tea, then the finish gets touch zippy and zesty with a subtle hint of tannin and citrus pith and then again a hint of white tea.

08/11/2026

Sanguineto Toscana Rosato. Only 12 cases came to Maine

08/08/2026