We are simply obsessed with wine. Story-telling-wine, that is our vocation. We wake up each day and tell the stories of the people and places and moments that bring a wine to life.
In a glass of wine dwells a thousand stories: the haunting stories of gods, the heroic stories of farmers, the heedless stories of weather. The story of civilization. (And its most uncivilized festivities!)
Wine is a teacher. It teaches the young and old alike: "Everything in moderation—including moderation!" A glass of wine is this ceaseless veiler & unveiler. It is a game of wine-pong between Apollo and Dionysus. It is a bewildering paradox, often its a spiritual tromp through the unknowing, until you turn a corner and there it is, again and again, the eureka crucible of scientific revolutions. It's a minstrel and a monk, a tease and a titan. Where else can you taste a place at a time—a perfectly forgotten day when the sun rose and went down and everyone smiled, or a tragic hailstorm on its careless march. Where else can you taste the reflexive becoming of a farmer's countless choices ricocheting off a plant's beguiling genome. A lifetime conversation between a gardener and a grape vine, the evidence unfurled in a fernlike fractal right inside your nasal cavity, a vapour inside your very skull...
Forgive my rhapsodizing, I've lost track of the question, haven't I...
Who are we at
Vino al Vino?
I suppose we should assure the reader that we're indeed hardworking, responsible, business people who know that dollars are made from nickels and to the worker goes the spoils. Yes! We wouldn't have made it this far if we weren't. We're Albertan's after all! But we also couldn't have made it this far without our
passion. We are the quixotic souls who decided to make careers out of finding real wine for our communities to toast with and make jokes with and get close with. Or better still, let's say
We are the hapless bon vivants—the ones who asked "How many angels can dance on the head of an olfactory bulb?"
You see, we believe in wine. We believe in a lot of things! But for the intents and purposes of what we do for a living every day, we can boil it down thus: W e B e l i e v e I n W i n e.
Some wines are simply food. Some wines are happymaking. Some wines are hygge in the organoleptic mode. A good number of wines are aesthetic pleasures on the highest order. A rare few are pure art: heartbreaking, disturbing, elating—mindful and mind-altering.
What we do is we just read a lot of taste a lot and ask a lot of questions and bit by bit we find our way to vigneron/nes that are doing the damn thing: crafting Important and Necessary wines in all-of-the-above modes. Then we put our money where our mouth is and bring these gems home to Alberta. We bet as big as we can (and it's usually on the little guys). We are a rag tag ensemble of sommeliers and aspiring winemakers and farm brats and big city alley cats dancing the fake-it-till-we-make-it all the way to the wine-fridge. Somehow or other, We Are Importers of Real Wine.
The essence of wine lies in the unique combination of the land, the weather, and the human touch. The Wine Farmers we work with pour their hearts and souls into every drop. It's an honour and a joy to collaborate in their work by bringing the fruits of their labor to Western Canada and telling those stories, day after day.
CAMILLE CAYRAN ..... Cairanne, Rhône Valley
CHAMP DES TREILLES ..... Saint Foy, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU BELLE-VUE ..... Haut-Medoc, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU BELLEGRAVE ..... Pauillac, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU CARBONNIEUX..... Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU CHASSE-SPLEEN ..... Moulis-en-Médoc, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBRUN ..... Lalande-de-Pomerol, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU DE CLOTTE ..... Castillon, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU DE PRESSAC ..... Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU DES GRAVIÈRES ..... Graves, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU DU GLANA ..... Saint-Julien, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU FRANC COUPLET ..... Entre-Deux-Mers, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU HAUT-GRELOT ..... Blaye, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU KALIAN BERNASSE ..... Monbazillac, Sud-Ouest
CHÂTEAU LA GROLET ..... Bourg, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU LA PLAIGE ..... Entre-Deux-Mers, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU LAROZE-LABATISSE ..... Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU LE COTEAU ..... Margaux, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU MARZY ..... Pomerol, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU PEYBONHOMME-LES-TOURS ..... Blaye, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU PONTET-CANET ..... Pauillac, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU SAINT-HILAIRE ..... Médoc, Bordeaux
CHÂTEAU TOUR DES TERMES ..... Saint-Estèphe, Bordeaux
DOMAINE BELARGUS ..... Anjou & Savennières, Loire Valley
DOMAINE DE LA SOLITUDE ..... Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rhône Valley
DOMAINE STÉPHANE TISSOT ..... Arbois, Jura
GILBERT & GAILLARD ..... Saint-Chinian, Languedoc
LELARGE-PUGEOT ..... Vrigny, Montagne de Reims, Champagne
LUNEAU PAPIN ..... Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine, Loire Valley
JEAN-LOUIS DENOIS ..... Limoux, Languedoc
OLIVIER MARTEAUX ..... Vallée de la Marne Ouest, Champagne
JOFFREY ..... Les Riceys, Côte des Bar, Champagne
ALBERTO VOERZIO ...... Barolo, Piedmont
BARBACÀN ...... Valtellina, Lombardy
CASA RAIA ...... Montalcino, Tuscany
CHIUSA GRANDE ...... Nocciano, Abruzzo
ELIA PALAZZESI ..... Montalcino, Tuscany
EJAMU ...... Chianti, Tuscany
IL PALAGIO ...... Chianti, Tuscany
MARCOBARBA ...... Gambellara, Veneto
PERLAGE ...... Valdobbiadene, Veneto
PIAN DELL'ORINO ...... Montalcino, Tuscany
RIVETTO ...... Barolo, Piedmont
TENUTA AMADIO ...... Asolo, Veneto
VENTURINI BALDINI ...... Reggio, Emilia-Romagna
ÁLVAR DE DIOS ...... Toro, Castilla y Léon
AZIMUT ...... Alt Penedès, Catalonia
BODEGAS ENGUERA ...... Enguera, Valencia
PAGO CASA GRAN ...... Moixent, Valencia
SIERRA DE TOLOÑO ...... Villabuena de Álava, Rioja Alavesa
SURIOL ...... Alt Penedès, Catalonia
UVA DE VIDA ...... Santa Olalla, Toledo
ANTICA TERRA ….. Oregon, USA
COOPER MOUNTAIN ...... Oregon, USA
EVENING LAND ...... Oregon, USA
GROUNDED WINE Co. ...... Napa, California
SANDHI ...... Sta. Rita Hills, California
ST. ROMEDIUS ...... Napa, California
More than likely you have met them already at one of the hundreds of events we host annually, such as store pours, wine festivals, private tastings, partnerships and collaborations. To connect you with the wines and the stories of our producers and bring cheer to your life.
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