September means the long-awaited return of the red wine to our daily drinking canon, and we are excited to share with you one of our perennial favourites for that purpose. Judith Beck’s Zweigelt is a fun, approachable, and dare we say, inclusive bottle, meaning it can please anyone and everyone. You, your parent, your coworkers and classmates, and even that person you’ve had your eye on all summer. No need to worry if they’re a seasoned natural wine drinker or not. They won’t find it too acidic nor too funky–that’s because it isn’t! This Austrian gem has a great spice- and earth-factor to meld its round, supple body with its light, bright spirit. We just hope your new partner has the same kind of sex appeal.

The Catalan Highlands (the Terra Alta, in local parlance) are a wondrously underrated place to make wine. The high-ish altitude (for a mediterranean landscape, anyway) helps the grapes grown there ripen more slowly and more evenly, to a point where the winemakers don’t necessarily have to harvest mega-early in order to maintain that elusive acidity: the one that keeps wines with a higher alcohol content drinkable. In simpler terms, the “curse” of natural wines made in the Mediterranean is just a little bit less potent here. Case in point: Nar i Tornar Poket. (Translation: To go and come back, a little bit). Mostly white grapes, blended not ungenerously with a potent red, make for a ripe, rich, lingonberry-like clarete that still has a fresh, forward flow. A little bit red, a little bit white, it’s a wine to go and come back to.

T.N.W.C. mainstay Andi Weigand is in hot demand these days. His very smashable, super direct, and impressively stable wines have put him on lists all around the international map of independent wine establishments, which is a huge success for him, of course. (Congratulations!) Under normal circumstances, it would be a pity for us, as this particular wine–his Amphora white, a soft-exterior but crunchy-on-the-inside flower bomb of a low-alcohol wine–is highly allocated. Meaning: everybody gets a little and nobody gets enough. Thankfully, though, we’ve been on-board with his second-generation winemaking project for a while now, and we were able to scratch enough bottles off him to bring them to your doorstep, dear Member. It’s a bottle to be savoured now, and properly, because it’s unlikely you’ll find it anywhere else!