We have a set of guidelines that we feel are the most important in our selection of wines. This stems from our many years of learned experience and intuition in making, studying, tasting, and enjoying wine - we believe these wines to be the best.

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• In the vineyards we look for a "more than organic" approach. This means that they should be farmed using natural farming principles (organic, biodynamic, ancestral,"do nothing") without the use of chemicals (especially Round-Up - which has been shown to be residual in the finished wines in 100% of the vineyards tested that use it). The soils should be teeming with good microbial life, creating a healthy and balanced ecosystem (which is better for our health and the environment too!).  

• Transparency in the winemaking: minimal intervention throughout the entire wine-making process. If grandma doesn't know what it is, then there is no need to add it to our wine! Good healthy fruit can = good healthy wine, no need to mess around with it too much.

• Our favorite wines we call "øø" (zero-zero) or "natural" or "vivant" (living). This means that there is nothing added, or  taken away during the entire winemaking process. Sometimes these wines can have more of a "raw" or "fermented" taste, but our palates love these flavors and now these are the only wine that we drink at home! 

• Wine is all about the experience - an ancient way of sharing and connecting with people and in moderation we find it to be a healthy, ancient medicine. 

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Our selection reflects like-minded, small businesses that do it out of love and passion.  Some are breaking the rules and regulations of their respective regions by choosing to make wine in a more holistic way. We regard them as heroes in a competitive industry that increasingly manufactures wine as though it is a soft drink or a processed food product. 

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Vive Les Vins Vivants!!

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Cheers,

~D.C., Lisa & The Punchdown team

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“Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.”  - Masanobu Fukuoka