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Wine Club
A wine club membership designed for the intrepid explorer and tastemaker, or anyone looking to drink something new and delicous. With each shipment, you will discover extraodinary and unique wines, and the stories behind these passionate winegrowers and the regions they call home.
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Curated Collections
Choose your own wine adventure with our 4-, 6- and 12-bottle Curated Collections. Ideal for enhancing your personal cellar or giving as thoughtful gifts. Shop by Occasion, Region, or Staff Favorites, and explore the diverse and extensive Vinalia portfolio today.
Bottle Shop
Embark on a journey through the world of wine, one grape at a time. Our Bottle Shop showcases the hidden gems of lesser-known wine regions, granting you access to incredible wines rarely found in the US.
Seasonal Sips
Cozy up this season with our Wines of Winter Collection, featuring rich, warming bottles perfect for chilly nights and festive gatherings.
Gift Guide
Shop Vinalia's wine gifts for all of the wine lovers in your life. From your favorite bottles to one-off collections and gift cards, all include a custom note. Gifting wine just got easier.
Corporate Gifting
Whether it’s for your team, clients, or partners, Vinalia’s handpicked wine collections offer a personal and unforgettable way to say thank you. We offer white glove service to ensure that every detail is accounted for, and we’ll streamline the whole process for you to make gift-giving simple.
Wine Tastings
At Vinalia, we believe every bottle tells a story, and our wine tastings bring those stories to life. Led by certified wine experts—including our co-founders, Bryce Wiatrak (Master of Wine candidate) and Mary Collineau (WSET Diploma candidate)—our tastings are engaging, educational, and anything but boring.
Our Producers
We source wines from winemakers across the globe who honor their land, history, and traditions. Their passion, dedication, and expertise are evident in every bottle we offer. Explore their stories here and discover the unique grapes they cultivate, as well as the regions they call home.
Our Story
Our goal is to shed light on the people, regions, and traditions that make up the incredibly diverse world of wine today. For we believe that great wine can come from any grape, any region, and any one. Read Our Story here.
Our Recipes
Just as the world of wine is vast and diverse, so too is the culinary landscape, though many local delicacies remain unrepresented here in the US. Our recipes honor the culinary traditions of the regions we source from, highlighting dishes that complement our wines.
Our Journal
Planning a trip to Greece and want to learn about its top wine regions and grapes? Or are you looking to discover 10 new Italian grapes to try? Discover answers to these questions and more in Our Journal, our weekly blog dedicated to all things wine.
Cultivar Club
Vinalia's Exclusive Loyalty Program. Join the club and be rewarded with exclusive discounts, club member perks and more!
With the Harvest Moon swiftly approaching and grape clusters already being picked across the Northern Hemisphere, let’s discuss one of the most complicated (and, for some, controversial) topics in the wine industry: biodynamics.
Biodynamic farming stems from the early-20th century teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the eccentric Austrian multi-hyphenate whose theories straddle the realms of science and supernatural. A self-proclaimed clairvoyant, Steiner and his ideas are easy to dismiss as utter quackery. The problem with such assumptions, however, is that many of the world’s finest wines continue to be farmed according to his principles.
Central to the philosophy of biodynamic viticulture is the reduction of chemicals in the vineyard and cellar. Its relationship to organics is that of a square to a rectangle. Biodynamic wines are by default organic, but not all organic wines qualify as biodynamic. Instead, biodynamics take organics several steps farther. At its core, biodynamic farming believes a vineyard should be self-sustaining, with the idea that a vineyard is, in essence, a “farm organism.”
To build up vine resistance to pests and diseases, biodynamic winegrowers apply a series of “biodynamic preparations” to their vineyards. There are nine preparations in total, and they are administered either through sprays or through composts. While biodynamic preparations can be purchased, the most observant practitioners will often create their own from scratch. Their production methods can be eccentric. One necessitates burying a cow horn filled with silica paste and unearthing it at the end of summer. Another involves stuffing a deer bladder with yarrow flowers, drying it in the sun, and then burying it for the winter. Each preparation serves a different purpose in the growing cycle, from root stimulus and aid for photosynthesis to fungicidal remedies and nutrient uptake.
"Critics are quick to decry (biodynamic) beliefs as fanatical woo woo pseudoscience... However, as Master of Wine Stephen Skelton explains in his book on viticulture, the moon is more powerful than often given credit. If its pull can move over 100 billion tonnes of water in the Bay of Fundy over the course of 12 hours, would it not have some influence on the water in a plant or the wine in your glass?"
Many of the most controversial aspects of biodynamic farming relate to its more spiritual, almost religious, and astrological demands. In addition to the application of preparations, biodynamic winegrowers make decisions timed to the solar, planetary, and lunar calendars. Nearly every aspect of the growing season is dictated by various windows of opportunity in relation to the cycles of the moon, and its relationship to the planets.
Further, the core components of the vine are identified as leaf, flower, root, and fruit, and each is tied to one of the four elements of earth, fire, water, and air. Decisions relating to each component are carried out in relation to the skies. There are root days and fruit days, flower days and leaf days—and some are believed better for performing certain vineyard operations than others. This extends to the consumer—you want to drink your wine on a fruit day, but never on a root day, according to biodynamic adherents.
At the same time, many of the world’s most revered wine estates are biodynamic. Their results are so convincing—vintage after vintage—that it is hard to imagine the whole ideology is a total fluke. Practitioners of biodynamics will readily show you photos of their vineyards before and after conversion to biodynamic farming, or they might just invite you to take a look at their vines next to their neighbors. To the naked eye, the results are often striking; the biodynamic vineyards often just look healthier.
While the exact machinations of biodynamics are difficult to prove, I will throw out one hypothesis. Biodynamic winegrowers are among the most meticulous in the global wine industry. They know their vines intimately and often individually, and they spend countless hours walking their estate, monitoring vine health, and engaging in hand labor. Even if no science behind biodynamics is provable, who can deny the benefits of hyper-engaged nurturing of the vine? In short, why wouldn’t higher care for each vine make for better wine?
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