KNiT wine – Collective Distribution of Natural Wine in NY | NJ | IL

KNiT

Cooperative distribution of focused wine micro-portfolios. Available in NY / NJ / IL.

About

KNiT wine was born out of the need for natural wine micro-portfolios to create market efficiencies, while maintaining their regional focus. KNiT is a distribution platform for selected focused micro-portfolios, currently representing the regions of Greece, Italy, and Eastern Europe.

Portfolios

EKLEKTIKON

Greece

THE MARITIME REPUBLIC

Central Italy

DANCH & GRANGER

Eastern Europe

HOOTANANNY

Italy / Slovenia / Austria

News

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Happening on Monday! . We’ll be opening some ra

Happening on Monday!
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We’ll be opening some rare Eastern European stunners from the mind bending @danchandgrangerselections portfolio. Contact your rep for more ✨

CHICAGO!!! Meet your new KNiT guy, Avi G. He’s g

CHICAGO!!! Meet your new KNiT guy, Avi G. He’s got the good stuff. Schedule your tasting today! We love you!

#chicago #naturalwine #chicagowine #naturals #yum #ohyeah #tastetherainbow #loveyou #loveyourself

Starting this week off with a large show of gratit

Starting this week off with a large show of gratitude to the amazing importers that make up KNiT Wine - @hootananny_wine, @eklektikon, @danchandgrangerselections, and @themaritimerepublic !! Thank you all for a beautiful tasting, we can’t wait to do it again! Shout out to our amazing hosts, @tuffetbar ❤️🥂🗽

The Maritime Republic was created in NJ in 2015 by

The Maritime Republic was created in NJ in 2015 by Chris Leo and Laura Marchetti. At the time, it was the only natural wine import and distribution company in the state.

Their goal was simple and honest— to import organic wines that showcase the typicity of the Italian regions and winemakers they partner with. In the words of Chris, "I wasn't looking for wines that have the flavor of the minute that would have them placed on every cosmopolitan list around the globe. It was more important for me to have wines that bore some irresistible stamp of their zone -- just the cleanest possible expression of that."

Chris was born and raised in NJ, while Laura hails from Le Marche, one of the regions they focused on in their portfolio. Ever rolling stones, they switched gears to focus on retail and launch @riverviewwinejc, the first natural wine shop in NJ. The Maritime Republic carries on through KNiT, with Chris and Laura still collaborating on all things Italian.

Join us on Wednesday, hang out with Chris and Laura, and talk / taste central Italy (link in bio).

#tradetasting
#naturalwine
#brooklyn
#italianwine
#KNiTwine

@eklektikon was born in 2011, when Aris Soultanos

@eklektikon was born in 2011, when Aris Soultanos started building a bridge between Greek tradition and the US market in the form of imported handcrafted natural Greek wines. Maria Bakalopoulou joined Eklektikon in 2013, and spent nearly a decade in NYC developing the market and curating Greek experiences around the city. She is currently spending more time in Athens, overseeing Eklektikon’s expansion into the Greek market.

Eklektikon’s vision is centered around the support of small agricultural families, the promotion of the country’s rich biodiversity, and the revival of ancient winemaking traditions. The portfolio is essentially a tour around Greece’s vineyards, its indigenous varieties, and many lost winemaking traditions, expressed through raw, unpretentious, and unexpected natural Greek wines.

Come chat with Aris about the newest additions to the Eklektikon portfolio this coming Wednesday! Link in bio.
#portfoliotasting
#importers
#nyc
#brooklyn
#naturalwine
#eklektikon
#retsina

Danch and Granger Selections (@danchandgrangersele

Danch and Granger Selections (@danchandgrangerselections) is the independent offspring of Blue Danube Wine Company, a pioneer in Eastern European wine importing, founded by Eric Danch and Catherine Granger in 2019. Their focus is centered on Hungary and its immediate neighbors: Slovakia, Serbia, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Romania.

Eric has spent over a decade establishing US market recognition for these small-scale producers from remote locations. He firmly believes in quality over quantity and puts strong emphasis on partnering with low intervention winemakers who are committed to working with native varieties and farming organically.

Catherine is a longtime wine lover and wine collector who moved to the Bay Area from France with her husband to work in the tech industry. She has been instrumental in building and supporting the company's Ecommerce, technology, project management and marketing.

Come say hello to them in NYC at our portfolio tasting on 10/5! Link in bio.

Hootananny Wines (@hootananny_wine) is the importi

Hootananny Wines (@hootananny_wine) is the importing project of longtime best friends Carolyn Agee and Summer Wolff. Founded in 2019, after Summer stepped away from her first importing company, Hootananny is the home of cult natural producers like Le Due Terre (Friuli), Arcari + Danesi (Lombardia), and Klinec (Goriška Brda, Slovenia).

Summer has been actively making wines at Cascina Iuli with her husband Fabrizio since 2009, and scouring the countryside for the best new winemakers to share with the US market (many of which were her husband’s winemaker friends who shared the same integrity for natural wine). Carolyn keeps everything moving stateside, and shares the same passion for all things natural.

We are excited to have Summer and Carolyn with us on October 5th at our importers portfolio tasting @tuffetbar! Sign up for a time slot through the link in bio.
#portfoliotasting
#NaturalWineCollective
#NewYork
#ImportersTasting

The first ever KNiT Importers Portfolio Tasting, h

The first ever KNiT Importers Portfolio Tasting, happening on October 5th in Wil/burg!

With:
- Summer Wolff and Carolyn Agee of @hootananny_wine
- Eric Danch & Catherine Granger of @danchandgrangerselections
- Aris Soultanos of @eklektikon
- Chris Leo of @themaritimerepublic

Mark your calendar!

- Trade only with RSVP -

#portfoliotasting #naturalwine #newyork #KNiTcollective

Repost from @hootananny_wine: - Speaking of Winter

Repost from @hootananny_wine:
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Speaking of Winter whites... Le Due Terre Sacrisassi Bianco (sacred stones). One of my all time favorite wines and wine families...
Silvana and Flavio have been making natural wines exactly how they still are today since 1986 (remember, when almost no one else was). This perfectly ‘skin kissed’ white has been one of my go to Italian whites since I first met the wine 12 years ago... and tonight he proved as loyal and reliable a gentleman as he always does...perfect maceration and balance, drank more like a one year old wine and not a 4 year old wine... just beginning to have that sought after integration in an aged white of this caliber.
70% Friulano
30% Ribolla Gialla .. on the skins in steel for 7-15 days. After 21 months in tonneaux bottled in July.
Only 4,500 bottle produced... 2017 is the current vintage we’re just finishing up... #hootanannywines #winterwhites
#sacrisassibianco #ledueterre #friuli

Greek islands = isolated terroirs. Repost by @dirt

Greek islands = isolated terroirs.
Repost by @dirtybacchus
Dionysis & Maria Papanikolopoulos / Siflogo / Mavropatrino 2020 / Lefkada Island, Greece - Siflogo’s wine “workshop,” as they call it, was founded in 1994 in Platystoma on the Greek Island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea. No chemicals of any kind have ever been used on their 1.8 hectares of vineyard plantings. The indigenous Mavropatrino is among the rarest of grapes, even in Greece, and Siflogo is evidently the only producer making wine from it - which seems incredible once you taste this stuff! If you’re looking for serious, quenching refreshment, this textured rosé is your ticket. Floral peach and watermelon with wisps of fragrant apricot rise like plumes of dancing temptresses above the rim of the glass. And all of these fruits follow through on the palate, which has a texture that is almost lustful with its mouthwatering play of tannin and acidity. While the 14.2% ABV may seem high for such a natural wine, it does not add heat to the experience but rather a sense that this luscious potion originates from a warm, humid climate. Truly serious fun! $29.00 @siflogo_winery @knit.wine @eklektikon #winesoflefkada #winesofgreece

Welcoming another round of Serbian wines!
Repost • @danchandgrangerselections That crazy goose was our November most visited wine on our website. Well deserved! And its red sibling was not far behind.

Repost from @winetherapyny Purity is back! Strawbe

Repost from @winetherapyny
Purity is back! Strawberry Daze is an absolutely electrifying Mourvèdre/Grenache/Syrah coferment - the style we’ve come to love from Noel. Purity wines have become a focal point in the Bay Area, I was lucky enough to attend an outdoor fest at the winery last weekend which featured an array of talented and visionary winemakers from Santa Cruz up to Sonoma. Scroll through for a few photos. It’s always a pleasure working with Purity and everything they manage to push forward 🙏🙏🙏 #purity #noeldiaz #bytheway2021 #richmond #bayarea #californiaproducers #californianaturalwine #buckleup #margins #stagiere #leslunes #subjecttochange #calebleisure #strawberrydaze #mourvedre #grenache #syrah #coferment

Launching tomorrow… - Chicago exclusive - #KNiTd

Launching tomorrow…
- Chicago exclusive -
#KNiTdomestic #TexanWine #NattyWine #KNiTwine #Chicago

Hey Chicago, don’t let all this rain get you dow

Hey Chicago, don’t let all this rain get you down. Newly arrived biodynamic pet-nats from Greece will turn your frown upside down! #naturallygreek #bubblesforyourtroubles

Repost from @corkscrewbrooklyn • We are having

Repost from @corkscrewbrooklyn •

We are having an amazing wine tasting tonight with @jennyyanosik from @knit.wine and @eklektikon …. Two delicious Greek wines a very refreshing white wine from Italy.

One of the largest biodynamic farms of Italy is lo

One of the largest biodynamic farms of Italy is located in its most obscure and second smallest region, the mountainous Molise!
Vincenzo Molise Bianco 2020 (Falanghina / Trebbiano) and Vincenzo Molise Rosso 2020 (Montepulciano / Cab / Merlot) are the newest arrivals from Fattoria Vaira and the @hootananny_wine portfolio. Delicious, biodynamically farmed (certified organic), pure mountain wines from almost wild soils.
Did we mention that Summer Wolff, co-founder of Hootananny, is in NY on Wednesday? Come hang with us (DM for details).

Repost from @runswithcorkscrew • Today is going

Repost from @runswithcorkscrew
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Today is going to be fun!

Do you like to geek out on emerging wine regions?

Do you like to geek out on emerging wine regions?
Are you an expert in unpronounceable grape varieties no one has ever heard of but everyone is interested to explore?
Do you have a voracious appetite to taste and talk natural wine with other wine pros?
Do you have so much interpersonal skill it’s falling out your pockets?
Are you sick of working an uninspiring job?

Then shoot us an email at info@knitwine.com or tell a friend.

We are looking for a new rep to join our NY family. Let’s talk!

This Wednesday @jahdemarley.drinks will be at @tai

This Wednesday @jahdemarley.drinks will be at @tailfeatherbar starting at 5p 🍇💃🏽

Have you ever tried Malagousia? Roditis? Limniona? Xinomavro?

Come explore some native Greek varietals from one of the corner stone natural wine producers @kontozisis_wines

And we will have the phyllo yummys- Spinach/Feta + Olive stuffed Greek Pies from @titanfoods 👅

See you on the patio!!
@eklektikon @knit.wine

Happening in 1 hour and there are 3 more spots lef

Happening in 1 hour and there are 3 more spots left!

KNiT’s Chicago portfolio tasting at @pizzalobo_ today, noon - 3pm, led by @runswithcorkscrew (Mark Lindzy).

Don’t be “alienated” by the following regions:
- Greece (@eklektikon)
- Italy / Slovenia / Austria (@hootananny_wine)
- North America (By The Hand)
- Eastern & Central Europe (@danchandgrangerselections)
- Middle East (@terrasancta_wine_beer_arak)
- Central Italy (The Maritime Republic)

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