Speaker: Drew
What was the first time a natural wine blew your mind?
Drew DiMatteo: So the first natural wine that kind of really blew me away was a Hervé Souhaut syrah, it was at Cork Buzz Wine Studio in New York. Maybe 2013, 2014. The wine had something different about it to me than most conventional wine that I've had before from the northern Rhone. It had a life to it. It was like it was alive. It evolved in the glass from the time I first started drinking until the end of the night. It just changed so much. And in a good way, it was just a wine that left a lasting impression on me and made me really want o explore natural wine more.
What intrigued you about our wines that made you seek us out?
Drew DiMatteo: So when you follow the wine scene as closely as I do, you're pretty much definitely gonna hear about Martha. Martha Stoumen Wines, with a cooperative that she did initially when she started up, and then I was an avid listener of the Levi Dalton 'I'll drink to that" podcast, and she was on a new episode I think back in 2016. So, I was at a wine shop in Brooklyn, a more of a natural wine shop, and I came across one of Martha's wines and I had a wine party coming up that I knew there was gonna be a lot of geeky wine people attending. So I picked up a bottle. It was a Mendocino County Carignan. That wine ended up being quite a hit at the party, and I remember it was getting drunk so fast, and I had a friend of mine IC, that met Martha in California, and I wanted to save some for her, and she was running a little late, so I had to kind of push the bottle to the side just to keep people from drinking it so there would be some left for my friend IC.
