Summer is still very much with us—the vineyards are green and full, the gardens have gone almost wild, goldenrod is beginning to rise along the roadsides and field edges, beneath the vines. The days are warm and long. Rain is forecasted then evaporates. And yet something has changed. The colors have changed.

Over the years, we have found ourselves returning to the same simple idea in different forms: wine is best discovered around a table, with something good to eat and no reason to hurry.

Summer has settled into the vineyards. The canopies have filled, the gardens are generous, and the work has shifted from anticipation to observation. Theses are the weeks when we walk the vineyards each morning, watching what each place is teaching us, while the wines continue their quieter work in the cellar.

Now that the Spring into Summer wines have found their way to your tables, we just wanted to say thank you. It was a joy to see so many of you at Bar No'ella and over the course of pickup days. Those moments—sharing coffee and sparkling wine, catching up between bottles and flowers, seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones—are some of our favorite parts of the season.

WINTER SOLSTICE! Celebrate at our Barnard Tasting Room. Plus CSA pick-up and Holiday bottles.

Little Forêt Caviste - our West Addison tasting room - will be open Saturday, December 13th from 3-6 pm for wine by-the-glass, holiday bottle sales, and cute snacks.

ORDER IN ADVANCE at our online wineshop. We'll have our doors open  at FORÊT Caviste just for bottle pick up on Wednesday, November 26 AND Saturday, November 29th.

The fruit is all in, but the orderly bins of  grapes on the crush pad choreograph a new dance: patience, destem, patience, press, patience, bottle if the juice is destined for petillant, patience. Patience and repetition. Back when we were dancing, Caleb once choreographed a dance called Patience and Repetition which was more about finding your way to the rituals of the table, a dance he made while we were living in Italy the first time, when food and wine transformed our view of the world. Little did we now that this prophetic dance would lead us to a lifetime of patience and repetition, where beauty, wildness, and energy rise out of the structures of recurrence.