We start with: small scale, organic or biodynamic practices, wild yeasts, and honest, chemical-free winemaking. Our current wine menu is here.

You’ll notice it’s not in typical “list” format, but rather grouped by aspects of the current season that we feel also express in each of the wines in that category. In doing so, we hope you’ll be able to explore the options more intuitively based on how you’re feeling when you arrive, what you’re in the mood for, rather than being beholden to a particular grape or location.

You’ll likely also notice lots of less familiar grapes and locations. We take pride in curating a list highlighting lesser-known, provoking varietals, often from areas with extensive fermentation traditions that don’t get the same shine as the regions that dominate the international wine market. These varietals are the lineage of a moment when someone tasted something they thought was good in a local rather than global context and decided it should be cultivated, shared, and further explored. In many cases, they also represent a choice to do more work, pay closer attention, and take bigger risks for the sake of imparting a unique relationship with place and history into the wine. We like to support this radical re-investment in diversity and more often than not, we find ourselves rewarded with novel, exciting drinking experiences, fascinating stories, and a broader palate. We hope you too will be excited by the opportunity to try something unexpected and/or appreciate those working to re-interpret established styles in a more “natural” context.

Overall, we hope our wine menu at any given time is a catalog of people who believe we are in conversation with the Earth and that by raising and fermenting certain plants into drinkable form in a responsible way, we can better hear what that place is trying to say, take better care of it, and feel more deeply connected to it. We look forward to connecting with you over drinks and food at Circumstance sometime soon.