11/09/2023
INTRODDUUCCING our amazing panelists for Saturday’s round table with q***r & femme wine professionals 🥁 Join us for a fun convo with these stars, tastes of their wines, and snacks from 🤤 Tickets at the link in our bio!
SUMMER WOLFF
Summer Wolff has had just about every wine job in the book - wine director, importer, head somm, wine broker, a marketing and export assistant, a partner in a custom wine tour company in Tuscany, a winemaker’s wife – and of fall 2021– a winemaker. Based out of their organic farm in Italy’s Monferrato region, Summer makes up the Cascina Iuli wine label with her husband; she runs Hootananny Wines, a natural wine import company, with her best friend; and produces her own natural wines under the name Azienda Agricola Summer Wolff. She calls for natural wines to embody purity, grace, elegance, to be clean and individual, with a responsibility, above all, to the land you’re farming.
EVAN LEWANDOWSKI
Evan Lewandowski, is the heart of Ruth Lewandowski Wines. Lewandowski Wines are based on Evan’s early principles of sourcing fruit from organically farmed, old vine sites in California's Mendocino County. His philosophies of winemaking and farming – and many other parts of his life – are all rooted in the cycle of life. The name Ruth stems from the Book of Ruth, which depicts the natural cycle of death + redemption.
NÚRIA AVINYÓ
Núria Avinyó is at the helm of the next generation of natural winemakers. She works with her father Manel Avinyó, who began the project Clos Lentiscus in 2002, on their biodynamic vineyard just south of Barcelona, Spain. Working mainly with native grape varieties, they strongly believe in farming without the use of pesticides or herbicides and follow biodynamic operations. Núria has been honing in on her craft alongside her father since her late teens, now putting out her own creations for Clos Lentiscus stamped with her name. She affectionately describes her wines as natural Catalan wines made with amor. Núria comes from a generational connection to her land but has a strong vision for what winemaking might look like in the coming years.
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