Devenish Wines

05/05/2026

Elios Modus Bianco 2024! Sunny salty Mediterranean magic in a bottle! And the wine maler, Nicola, is coming to visit Maine next week!

Available at Enoteca Athena, Black Birch, and Vessel and Vine

100% Grillo from vineyards that are close to the sea and that they’ve been farming organically since 2015. The soil is clay with a lot of limestone present. The grapes are hand harvested, direct pressed (no skin contact), and ferment with native yeast in stainless steel. The wine ages for 7 months and naturally goes through malolactic.

05/04/2026

Pigoudet Cote de Provence Rose 2025! Lovely floral aroma that just sings, but then on the palate there's surprising structure and depth and delicious minerality!

Available at Bath Natural, Elizabeth, Bleecker and Greer, LeRoux Kitchen, and RSVP

Always one of my go to wines for a classic dry Provencal choice!  The blend is Grenache, Syrah, Cabernet, and Cinsault grapes all from Pigoudet's 100 acres of 35 ish year old vines from the extreme north west of the cotes de Provence appellation.  They farm organically and use native yeast. The juice is direct press to keep the wine clean and fresh and zippy. The fruit is bright and racy and there's good refreshing bright acidity, but there's some ripe fruit flavors here. It's great and just want with fresh seafood.

Aroma: great lovely wild strawberry, a little bit of Magnolia blossoms, citrus blossoms, a touch of lavender, fresh oregano, and fresh thyme. The aromas are so vivid- the fruit is so pretty but there's a delicacy to it: it's lovely

Taste: wow! This is impressive: don't be fooled by the pale color, this wine actually has a lot of flavor and some serious structure. There's acidity, serious delicious savory salinity on the mid palate that wakes up my palate, and then also a subtle textural tannin on the finish. It has beautiful wild strawberry and some fresh zippy citrusy clementine orange up front. The finish has a touch of that tannin and a little bit of raspberry. This feels like a particularly good vintage for this wine!

05/04/2026

Gustavo Riffo 'Lomas de Llahuen' Pipeno Blanco 2024 Litre!

Available at Table Bar!

100% Moscatel d’Alejandria! I’ve got to say I was surprised to read that. This wine has the aromatics of Moscatel: glorious soaring tropical fruit, mangos, and citrus blossoms, but it’s not over the top and on the palate it has some acidity and structure. I was sure there were some other white grapes here like Semillon or Corinto (and maybe there are) but the website says 100% Moscatel. This comes from 70 year old vines on dry granitic clay loam soils; the Itata valley is geologically complicated and some land is pretty mixed up. The grapes are destemmed and then the juice macerates with the skins in stainless steel before being gently pressed, settling in tank, and then 11 months resting before bottling.

05/01/2026

Ercole Barbera 2024! Bright, juicy, just slightly crunchy Barbera from Monferrato!

Available at Morning Glory Natural Foods, Westbrook Market, Rosemont, RSVP, Bow St Beverage, Benny's, Oxbow, Barncastle, Blue Hill Co-op, Rising Tide, Carousel Wine and Cheese, Golden Harvest, South Freeport Market, LeRoux, Roma Cafe, Now You're Cooking

Like Barbera writ large, sometimes we over look things that we see every day or that hide in plain sight. Ercole Barbera is a great example of this phenomenon! I recently opened a bottle to check back in on this and I was blown away. Here’s this responsibly farmed sunny friendly Barbera from small growers in a little old cooperative in Monferrato that is perfectly balanced and checks in at a tasty crunchy and thirst quenching 12.5% alcohol and I had been taking it for granted. This really is a stand out value!

04/29/2026

Elios Blanc de Blanc NV! Maybe the best Italian Sparkling wine I've ever had. Certainly the vienyard had the best view!

Available at Enoteca Athena, Grippy Tannins, Black Birch,Sissle and Daughters, plus Nicola is coming to visit and pour this for a dinner at Vessel and Vine!

100% Catarratto from the vines on the rockiest part of their vineyard up on top of Mount Bonifato. The winds and elevation and the intense diurnal temperature shifts slow the ripening down and produce grapes with more minerality and acidity. This is hand harvested and native yeast fermented with not skin contact. Only 10 cases came into the United States! I tasted this there in Alcamo and then again in Palermo and this is one of the best Italian sparkling wines I’ve ever had. The precision and elegance and energy this has are on a level with Champagne.

04/27/2026

04/26/2026

Tomorrow (Monday) from Noon to 3pm. This is Trade only

04/21/2026

Sassara 'Vin de Famea' Torbolo 2024

Vin de Famea is a wine that hadn't been brought into the country before, but I loved it when I tasted samples. Torbolo means "not clear" and it is not! This is super unusual: it's a light red wine made from Corvina and Rondinella grapes, but after the wine has been in tank for a year they added the skins from making their rose, the Chiaretto. This kicks of an extra fermentation and adds extra complexity, sort of like a Ripasso wine, except this is still a fresh and poised light red. Like all the others this is spontaneous ferment, unfiltered and fined, and zero sulfur.

04/15/2026

The Devenish Portland Spring Trade show is coming up this Monday! Noon-3, Trade Only

04/14/2026

Don’t miss the party everyone will be talking about! 

’s 7th annual fundraising celebration 🌸 Spring is in the AiR 🌸 returns on Thursday, April 16 from 6–9 PM at Maine Studio Works in Portland, ME. Come dance the night away and raise a glass (along with some essentially needed funds) all in support of IAA’s Artist Residency programs, uplifting Black and Brown artists across Maine and beyond.

Experience an electrifying Indigo Poppin’ Dance Party with DJ Benjamin Spalding (IAA’s ’22 + ’25 David C. Driskell Fellow), complemented by a delicious culinary lineup from Oun Lido’s, Katahdin Kitchen, Niyat Catering, along with treats from Dean’s Sweets.

Throughout the evening, guests will have the chance to purchase exclusive curated experiences, representing the breadth of IAA’s cultural community. These experiences include partnerships with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Maine Maritime Museum, Maine MILL, and the Portland Museum of Art, plus a powerful offering centered on Ashley Bryan’s legacy and a once-in-a-lifetime Safari in South Africa.

Ain’t no party like an Indigo Party! 🪩 Tap on the link in bio to learn more and get your tickets now.

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04/12/2026

Bernard Baudry 'Les Granges' Chinon 2024! Lovely lush, elegant, and richly fruity Cabernet Franc!

Les Granges comes from an approx 30 year old vineyard in a town called Cravant which is all aluvial gravel. Fermentation happens spontaneously in unlined concrete vats for 2 weeks but can go for 2 months. Then the wine spends 9-10 months resting in concrete until it’s bottled.

Way back in 2012 I visited Laurent Bonnois in the Loire valley for the first time. It was the first time I had visited a French wine region! Laurent took me to some of the wineries he worked with, but he also took me to visit Bernard and Matthieu Baudry in Chinon. Laurent didn’t work with them, but he said this was the best Chinon and that they were really great wine makers and that I really should taste these wines as a foundational property in the Loire. Well, now here we are many years later and now I actually work with Domaine Baudry! How cool is that?

04/11/2026

Cellario E Orange! Yes, one of our favorite orange wines is back! For a limited time anyway, we could only get 30 cases.

Available at Fog, Folk, Rosemont Market, Vessel & Vine, Sissle and Daughters, Monte's, and First Fig

Always a tinkerer and responding to different vintage conditions Fausto adjust the blend of this wine each year in order to maintain a consistent through line. This year’s E Orange is made from Nascetta and Moscato. The grapes were all separately hand harvest into small bins and then fermented with native yeast for 5 days of skin contact. It was aged in amphora for about 5 months and then bottled with minimal sulphur and without filtering or fining.

Aroma: lovely beautiful aromatic orange blossom! Definitely some fresh juicy clementine and mandarin orange, then a subtle briny salty aroma, a hint of pineapple, and some sage and a bit of the smell of ivy in the background. It's a really lovely bright heavy springtime aroma

Taste: fresh, vibrant, crisp acidity supporting clean bright fresh mandarin orange leads off on the palate, but it feels like the driving core of the wine is a tasty savory saltiness on the palate. There's a subtle touch of tannin on the finish that creates a lingering  pithy fresh pulpy orange taste. The fruit components of the profile are bright and precise and tart; the aroma is definitely Moscato but on the palate it's much more structured and focused thanks to the Nascetta. I’d bet Fausto is doing several harvests and using some less ripe Moscato to get some aromatics but keep the fruit restrained; it works super!