Vins Naturels
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VINS NATURELS L’Oursin pours organic and/or biodynamic wines made from grapes fermented with native yeasts. “Natural” wines that are true agricultural products - fresh, alive, and delicious. Vive les vins naturels! VINS PÉTILLANTS VINS ROUGES ▲ Philippe & Nicolas Spontané Blanc $13/56 ▼ Jean-Paul Dubost “Tracot” $11/47 Sémillon/Loin de l’Oeil/Mauzac, Southwest via Loire, FR, 2017 Gamay Noir, Beaujolais-Villages, FR, 2016 Two friends collect the most perfectly weird and If you wanna be startin’ somethin’, this P.Y.T. has a wonderful grapes for this wine-story. Natural nonfiction timeless profile with good movement, a vibrant appearance written effervescently with dry wit and a happy ending. and complicated nose. You can’t beat it. ▼ Domaine Pignier Crémant du Jura Brut $14/63 ▼ Francois Chidaine “Touraine Rouge” $11/47 Chardonnay/Pinot Noir, Jura, FR, NV Côt/Cabernet Franc/Pineau d’Aunis, Touraine, FR, 2017 Deep pigment, a perfect bubble, fruit and spice point From a carbon farmed Utopia where plants, animals and toward Champagne. Yet this is unapologetically not soil are treated as one. Wine born with a backbone of Champagne, but its own beautiful beast. Côt, the fleshy body of Cabernet Franc and Pineau d’Aunis’s snaggletoothed smile. ▲ Raphaël Bartucci Bugey Cerdon $13/56 Gamay Noir/Poulsard, Bugey Cerdon, FR, NV ▲ Arnauld Daudier de Cassini $12/51 Fascist-fleeing self-taught farmer bottles sustainable Merlot, Bordeaux, FR, 2016 nostalgia for your dining pleasure. A sweet, spontaneous, Boots on the ground/head in the sky winemaker innovates dinner date donning a crushed velvet blazer. in Bordeaux. Named for a spacecraft, an unoaked sun- soaked merlot to orbit your supper of earthly delights. VINS BLANCS DIGESTIFS ▼ Leon Boesch “Pierres Rouges” $11/47 Sylvaner, Alsace, FR, 2016 ▲ Lullaby “Morning Light” $13/74 (500ml) She might look like a wardrobe on the outside, but she Viognier, Port Townsend via Walla Walla, WA, 2009 Narnia on the inside! Virgin snow, spellbinding A gift, the most important offering we have for you while complexity and mythical woodland creatures abound. it lasts. Sherry-like and singularly attuned to the emerging terroir of Puget Sound. ▲ Les Tètes “Tète Blanche” $11/47 Sauvignon Blanc/Chenin Blanc, Loire, FR, 2016 ▼ Ganevat “Vieux Macvin du Jura” $12/105 Friends making wine to drink with friends making dinner Savagnin, Jura, FR, NV having wine! Perky round fruits, floral adornment, fairly Eat some cheese, drink this, repeat as necessary. aphrodisiacal, really. You’re welcome. ▼ Minimus Willamette Valley White $14/63 ▼ Fausse Piste “Post Feast” $9/93 Chardonnay/Melon de Bourgogne, Willamette Valley, Nebbiolo, Columbia Valley, OR, 2012 OR, 2017 Step 1: let wine oxidize in barrel for four years. Step Secretly rich Chardonnay wearing cool and understated 2: macerate bitter orange, wormwood, chamomile and Melon de Bourgogne. This wine couldn’t be more PNW if tarragon in grenache distillate. Step 3: blend. Step 4: it were made on The North Face of a Soundgarden! blow minds. Step 5: soothe tummies. ROSÉS et VINS ON THE SKINS ▲ Patrice Colin “Gris Bodin” $10/44 Pineau d’Aunis, Coteaux du Vendômois, FR, 2017 Cherry blossom pink with a contagious laugh. That one friend you’re always happy to see. Fresh, bright, dry-humored, and brings the herb. WINE KEY: ▲ Fabien Jouves “Les Agudes” $12/51 ▼ Traditional/Classic Chardonnay/Sauvignon Blanc/Sauvignon Gris/Sémillon, Cahors, FR, 2017 ▲ Adventurous/Idiosyncratic Collect the old camel hair blazer, the dog eared copy of your favorite paperback, a birch bark cigar and walk the beach until your pockets are filled with sea glass and your worries turn to memories. Tangerine blossom, lovage, rumpled sheets and sand dollars. Your bill includes a 20% service charge to be distributed to the front and back of house employees serving you this evening..