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LOCAL BEERS

Lowswater Gold – 4.3% 500ml, case of 6 - £18 Coniston Bluebird – 3.6% 500ml, case of 6 - £20

We are really passionate about natural and here at Brownber. Everything on this list is organic, bio-dynamic or completely natural. These are wines we love and drink ourselves (probably too often) and we hope you enjoy them too.

WHITE

Ciello Bianco Cataratto, Italy - £9 Organic, hazy, unfiltered, fruity, about 3 out of 5 on the funky scale (so a good introduction to funky natural wines…),. This natural white has bags of fresh tropical fruit, grapefruit, lemon pith and southern olive oil texture. It’s unfiltered so can be quite cloudy, but that is normal. A great value natural white for everyday drinking!

Samurai Free Run Juice , Australia – 2019 - £11 Samurai Chardonnay Free Run Juice, , low intervention, clean, fresh and fruity no Chardonnay with some balmy Aussie summer thrown in. The Chardonnay from Free Run Juice is both classic in style, natural in production and simple in its aims. Aussie white can be a touch on the hard work side at this price point but this one lip smacks with zippy acid, whilst coating the mouth with white peach and notes of cream. 'Tastes the Rain in the Australian Sunshine'.

Masieri Bianco, Maule, Gambellara, Italy - £15.50 Masieri Bianco is a blend of 90% (the same used in wines) and the rest is made up of a few other varieties which grow on his estate. Angiolino Maule is one of the founding figures of natural winemaking in Italy, and has been leading the way from his farm in Gambellara since the 1980s. This wine is a crisp, low sulphur, Italian . It is made from spontaneously fermented , from vines grown in volcanic soils, using natural methods. Unfiltered with no added sulphites.

Vorgesmacht White, Arndorfer, Austria - £17 A natural wine with 80% Gruner Veltliner, 20% Reisling. This wine is aromatic and crisp, a perfect aperitif! Vorgeschmacht means foretaste and is a great wine to have before a meal or with light salads on a warm autumn day. The Arndorfer way is artisan and natural. Many of their wines are unfiltered, and sulphur and chemicals are avoided, though they don't subscribe to any certification.

Le Petit Clos Clos Henri 2017, New Zealand - £19 Le Petit Clos Sauvignon Blanc, organic, grapefruit, tangy, minerally New Zealand white wine. Le Petit Clos organic Sauvignon Blanc from old-new-world- straddling producer Henri Bourgeois is a superb mini-me of the estate's Clos Henri Sauvignon. Grapefruit and tangerine are at the lees, with a steely minerality that gives it a finesse more akin to French Sauvignon. Made from young vines and best drunk young - an excellent NZ SB that doesn't hit you in the face but has some subtlety without breaking the bank.

ROSÉ

Reserve de Gassac , Languedoc, France - £11 Made with , and , this rosé is dry, subtle, and very easy drinking. This Rosé Reserve de Gassac from the renowned Guibert estate is a tribute to great value. Fresh and sublimely well balanced for a naturally made wine, it has subtle red fruit and pink grapefruit aromas with little whiffs of herbs and its .

Aglianico Rosato Pellarosa, Campania, Italy - £28 This is fermented and matured in terracotta amphorae. It is a full bodied and structured Rosato, ideal when it is too warm for red. A Cacciagalli wine which offers easy drinking with complexity. Layers of rich fruit and minerals underpin this dark coloured rosé wine. A 'serious' rosé, great with olive oil based dishes, roasted tomatoes with garlic and pretty much everything on our menu!

Jason Ligas Le Rosé, Greece - £29 This Vin de Greece is a natural, , with 100% grapes. It is unfiltered, plump, funky and a delicious drink, either as an aperitif or with food. The Xinomavro gives its characteristic tomato scented aroma, with juicy red fruits and some dried herbs. This wine is very impressive and unique, offering a different spectrum of flavour to the traditional, well known grape varieties of France, Italy and Spain. This is a really super wine, unique and very Ligas.

RED

Ciello Rosso Nero d'Avola, Italy - £9 Fresh, fruity, organic, naturally made from Sicily. Ciello make excellent value organic wines and this entry level Nero d'Avola has bags of crunchy, fresh dark fruits and spice to keep you happy with simple Italian pasta dishes and pizza.

Raisins Gaulois Lapierre 2019 - £15 Raisins Gaulois Gamay, natural wine, organic fruit, lip smacking, fun red from acclaimed family. From the famous Lapierre estate, now run by Marcel's son and daughter. This is superb fresh crunchy young Gamay, a wine that is ideal for summertime drinking with a picnic, or sat at the side of the road watching the bike race and munching some cheeses and salami with bread. It is fresh, vibrant and natural, and above all, fun to drink. The Gamay provides authentic Frenchness and little red fruits; carbonic and low sulphur bring the wine alive and tingle on the tongue. Delicious stuff!

Bellotti Rosso Semplicamente, , , Italy - £18 This biodynamic wine has no added sulphur. It is wild, fresh, alive and just a little bit funky! A deliciously fresh red wine, bursting with natural vivacity, dark and crunchy red fruits, notes of spice, chewy tannins and a lingering finish with just a note of funky earthy yeastiness. Delicious natural wine from one of the pioneers of biodynamics in .

Leon et Serafin, Mattieu Dumarcher, Southern Rhone, France - £21 This is an organic Vin de France, which would be a Cotes Du Rhone, but the winemaker Dumarcher refuses to play by the rules! Containing a blend of Syrah and Grenache, this wine has an unrivalled freshness and drinkability (not as heavy as traditional Rhones). Matthieu owns 5 hectares of vines and produces between just 15 000 and 20 000 bottles per year. The whole estate is run according organic principles, with natural yeasts and a minimum of sulphur at bottling.

Nat'cool Drink Me Baga Niepoort 1 Litre Bottle, Portugal - £22 Nat'Cool Drink Me Baga Niepoort, hands off wine making, Carbonic Maceration, soft, light expression of Baga. Baga is a touch grape which is very high in tannin and generally needs time to mature and express its delightful floral aromas and fruit character. However, here in the Bairrada with 80-100 year old vines and hands off wine making including carbonic maceration (which generally extracts less tannin), the astringent elements of the Baga grape are tamed and the resulting wine is pure juicy, fresh red with delicious wild berries, floral notes and light body. This wine is great fun, on opening there is a note of spritz but this vanishes quickly, I reckon it is just the wine's youthful spirit leaping from the bottle on its re-acquaintance with oxygen. What follows is very easy, juicy red which can be enjoyed chilled in the summer with a BBQ or at room temp in the autumn with some field mushrooms. The litre bottle and 11.5% abv is fantastic as between two, you have enough wine and not enough booze to make you suffer for it.

Evolution Sokol Blosser, Oregon, USA - £22 Organic, supple, ripe, elegant Pinot Noir from Oregon. The Pinot Noir thrives at Sokol Blosser and the exceptional red volcanic soils of the Dundee Hills provide a good home. Winemaker Alex Sokol Blosser uses an original technique for producing full-flavoured wines allowing for a post-fermentation soak of up to three weeks resulting in soft, supple tannins and a more complex wine. The wine is then aged in French oak barrels for approximately sixteen months followed by a further year in bottle.

Duc De Nauves Chateau Le Puy, St. Emilion, Bordeaux, France - £25 Located on the same rocky plateau as Saint-Emilion and Pomerol, Chateau le Puy is a rarity in Bordeaux. “One of my grandfathers was too miserly, and the other too much of a visionary, ever to use synthetic chemicals in the ” jokes Jean-Pierre Amoreau, when asked how his Chateau has managed to farm organically for the last 400 years. , and , Biodynamic, young fresh fruity Claret. Le Duc is beautiful with bags of natural character and as always with the Le Puy wines, plenty of freshness.

Monthelie Fanny Sabre, Burgundy, France - £45 Monthelie Fanny Sabre, 100% Pinot Noir, Organic Wine, velvet texture, outstanding purity. Burgundy at its best from one of the lesser known satellites of the region. She works totally naturally using organic farming, wild yeast, concrete and wood for fermentation. Her red wines are seamless, classic, dry but with a core of sweet fruit and a texture like pure velvet.

SPARKLING WINE

Casa di Malia Organic Frizzante, Prosecco, Italy - £15 This superb certified organic Prosecco from the hills around the Veneto region of Northern Italy is made in the very lightly sparkling style the Italians call Frizzante.

Gusbourne Brut Reserve – English - £39 A delicious and classic combination of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and .

Gusbourne Rosé– English Sparkling Wine £49 Gusbourne’s distinctive English Rosé is a delectable wine made from a blend of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier all grown on their estates in Sussex.