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Dancing Ewe Wine Club

$90.00 / month

Dancing Ewe Farm’s exclusive wine club offers unique wines from the Maremma and Piedmont regions of Italy. Every month we send out two bottles of wine, accompanied by a selection of Dancing Ewe Farm products. We also provide notes on each wine, describing what makes the wine or winery unique and why we chose it. It’s easy to give it a try — there is no minimum commitment, and the monthly membership fee includes all shipping charges! Join us for a month, a season, a year… you will not be disappointed!

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Take a look at what our wine club members received recently to see what you can expect each month as a member of the Dancing Ewe Wine Club:

Our October 2022 Wine Club Offering

Grasso Fratelli in Piedmont is where brothers Alfredo and Luigi have been making wine on their since the 1960s. They’re located a couple of miles east of Alba, in Valgrande in Treiso, the heart of the Langhe region and right next door to Barbaresco. They do not use pesticides or herbicides in their vineyards, which cover the rolling hills around the farm and agriturismo, and the care they take in the vineyards and cellar is apparent in everything they produce. The vines grow in limestone, clay, and marl—a mixture of the two—and the mild microclimate lets the grapes ripen beautifully.

This geology gives the chardonnay a character that’s almost Burgundian, but with a quintessentially Italian flair. It’s gorgeous: layers of fruit balanced by bright acidity and a buttery roundness, positively calling out to be opened along with creamy mushroom pasta or a roast chicken stuffed with herbs and lemon.

Their Langhe Nebbiolo is a full-bodied red that will benefit from decanting an hour or two before dinner. This is one to drink with red meat and game, or to accompany a fall feast. Nebbiolo is the most exalted grape in Piedmont, and very possibly all of Italy, famous for its extraordinary power, elegance, and longevity. Because of the Grasso vineyards’ proximity to Barbaresco, this wine delivers much of the same aromatic beauty—roses and that particular latex note that nebbiolo is famous for—as that famous appellation, but for significantly less money.

Accompanying these  autumn-weight wines, our cacciatorini: small sausages named after the hunters who would tuck a couple of these into their pocket for sustenance before heading into the wild. Also, a generous wedge of our pecorino stagionato, which is now clocking in at around seven months old and beginning to show some of the qualities that come with prolonged aging: a firmer texture and more concentrated flavor, making it equally good for eating straight or grating over your pasta.

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Dancing Ewe Wines

When we started hosting meals at the farm, we were well equipped with world-class ingredients, specifically our own salumi and cheeses plus the olive oil and other products we import from Tuscany. But the wines we served didn’t fit; they didn’t have the same quality and sense of place that we had grown accustomed to during our time in Italy. The only solution was to begin importing the wines we love! So now we share our favorite bottles with our guests at the farm as well as our online customers.

The wines we import are all handmade by small farmers we know personally. They are our friends and neighbors; we know their families, their vineyards and their stories, and we love their wines. All the wineries we work with follow sustainable practices in both field and cellar, and you can taste the difference, because caring for the soil and respecting the larger ecosystem produces the best fruit. And that fruit gets transformed into wine without the chemical interventions that are all too common in the industry. Each bottle we sell is a pure, unadulterated encapsulation of a particular vineyard in a given year, with nothing added and nothing taken away.

We’d love for you to come enjoy the fruits of these talented artisans’ labor with us at a farm dinner. Our website also offers easy online ordering and fast shipping, so you can open these special bottles of lovingly preserved Italian sunshine to enliven any meal from a weeknight dinner to a celebratory feast. Our wine club offers monthly boxes of wine paired with cheese, salumi, and other treats, or you can put together your own assortment for yourselves or for a delicious gift. Whatever you choose, we’re proud to share these beautiful wines with you.

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