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Zuiver Wijnen Zuiver Wijnen importeert en distribueert natuurwijnen, van onder andere Jean-Pierre Robinot, Matassa, Sebastien Riffault en Pheasant's Tears.

Last Saturday, we visited Gianfranco Manca of Panevino in the (arid!) heartlands of Central Sardinia, which for many dif...
31/08/2026

Last Saturday, we visited Gianfranco Manca of Panevino in the (arid!) heartlands of Central Sardinia, which for many different reasons felt like a true pilgrimage. Gianfranco showed us around his old vines, in some sections 100+ years old, and planted to more than 30 varieties, all growing wild and free, and providing scarce greenness and vivacity to the seriously dry landscape in 40+ degree heat. Gianfranco compared his multidirectional growing vines to anarchists, and the vines of neighbors to soldiers, exemplifying the level of analogies and deep metaphors which were a big part of our multi-hour conversation. Over dinner, we tasted new wines that are destined for release, spoke about blues and rock-&-roll and different types of music, poetry (Dylan Thomas!), and about the biggest challenges in the face of climate change. Besides the fact that the wines (both old and young!) are mesmerizing, soul-balming and high on the emotional-effect-scale, Gianfranco’s calm wisdom, humor and trust in the universe were utterly inspiring, and we hope to share not only the wines but also the stories and feelings back home.

Gianfranco is now going into his 22nd harvest under the Panevino guise, but has made wine without additives for more than 40 years, and is full of trust and energy. We wish Gianfranco and Team Panevino all the best and strength, and are super excited to have the new wines in this winter. Mille grazie, Gianfranco!

After the difficulties opening up this morning, we are back in, open and excited to share new wine by Japanese winemaker...
29/08/2026

After the difficulties opening up this morning, we are back in, open and excited to share new wine by Japanese winemaker Shun Minowa! Shun works in Emilia-Romagna in the Val Trebbia, on the other side of the river from Denavolo, and is known for his meditative orange wines like Gate and Jai Guru Deva.

However, Shun’s red is less known but maybe even more special as he only produces it in certain vintages. 2021 was such a vintage, and so we have Anitya 2021, made of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris harvested in August 2021, combined with Barbera and Bonarda in September, all fermented together with just four days of whole-bunch maceration. It sounds like a short maceration time, but the wine is quite deep and serious, like his macerated vini bianchi. The wine is bursting with wild cherry, cedar, to***co and an earthy smokiness that is unmistakably Shun Minowa, and after four years of ageing in different types of vessels, Anitya 2021 has a beautifully long, hearty and harmonious finish. The depth of the wine surely is Emilian, but the energy and uplifting fresh salinity is definitely a testament to the special Val Trebbia with its beautiful panoramas.

Last week, we visited the wonderful Benjamin Lopez, who, together with his good friend Renaud Buret makes delicious(ly) ...
26/08/2026

Last week, we visited the wonderful Benjamin Lopez, who, together with his good friend Renaud Buret makes delicious(ly) pure Burgundies in Nuits-Saint-Georges under the Les Jardiniers Vignerons guise. In the cellar, we tasted through a broad array of unsulfited 2024s and 2025s from bottle, as well as a kaleidoscopic range of pure 2025-wines still in barrel, to be bottled this winter (including the dizzyingly perfumed Marsannay and Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Rouge…).

After tasting through the whole range, we finally feel it’s the right time to release the wines we’ve been buying for three vintages in minute quantities: the soft and generous 2023s, high-tension/low-alcohol 2024s and two of their ‘cuvées de printemps’ from 2025. The wines all are made in barrel in the small cellar they just moved into, and generally see one full year of ageing before being bottled, except for the two early-release 2025s. The wines are incredibly pure and lively — our highlights include the Aligoté ‘En Fée’ 2024 which saw some voile-ageing due to smaller harvest yields in the cellar, the beautifully mineral Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Pinot Blanc (yes, that’s allowed within the AOC!) at 10.5% alc., the super fresh and near-volcanic-Pinot-like cuvée Les Larrets, and their blouge from 2025.

All wines are available online now in very small quantities and are listed on our September-list. If you want to know more, please see the website for full descriptions, stop by the shop or get in touch — we are more than happy to explain you the wondrous world of pure Burgundy, which still feels like a world we’re only dipping our toe in…

Last week, we spent five days in Beaujolais, Burgundy and Jura, crossing from north to south, east to west and vice vers...
21/08/2026

Last week, we spent five days in Beaujolais, Burgundy and Jura, crossing from north to south, east to west and vice versa to visit 14 producers we work with, plus a number of possible new producers, some of which we can’t confirm officially yet, but we’ll make sure to announce the arrival of their wines when time’s due. Overall, in these three regions, 2026 was a very stressful and in some cases disastrous vintage, with the drought of the last weeks completely decimating the yields. The grapes were almost ripe, but as the vines were totally deprived of water, in many cases the grapes were empty shells, containing barely any juice. When we left, however, some rain arrived, and we dearly hope it keeps on raining a bit for some harvests yields to correct.

Above, some pictures and videos of the tour — an official report will follow via our newsletter later, once the fill rolls are developed. In any case, we want to thank all the wonderful producers for their thoughtful words, their attention, hospitality and wines, and wish everyone a good harvest period. Bonne chance!

The flow of good news during Komkommertijd doesn’t stop, as we are happy to share that the 2023s by the Robinot family h...
11/08/2026

The flow of good news during Komkommertijd doesn’t stop, as we are happy to share that the 2023s by the Robinot family have landed! Mind-bending wines ranging from the salty, oxy-tinged Chenins to the brooding Aunis’es with it’s spooky long-élevage perfumes. 2023 is by all means an exceptional vintage from the rolling hills of Jasnières by Juliette, Noëlla & Jean-Pierre: the wines are bright now, but also have the architecture to live a very long life. Last February when we tasted with the Robinot’s we were absolutely blown away by Nocturne 2023, for anyone looking for a mesmerizing wine to store away for another decade. Also, Job sampled our current favorite, Lumière des Sens 2023, from a big glass during his birthday, which went around like the Blood of Christ and brought big smiles to our faces. Besides seeing a few 2023s for the first time, we also restocked on Lumière de Silex as well as the bubbles, to have plenty of Robinot to get us through autumn. Top level, welcome back!

For the final chapter of our August Island Special, we want to highlight wines that hold a very special place in our hea...
06/08/2026

For the final chapter of our August Island Special, we want to highlight wines that hold a very special place in our hearts, from the rugged, high-altitude interior of Sardinia. Here, Gianfranco Manca of Panevino makes the wines we, as the Zuiver team, drink most at home, and are the wines that, alongside the wines by L’Absurde Génie des Fleurs and Romuald Valot, are the bottles that can be found in our respective fridges at home.

Gianfranco signatures are that he works mostly in very old, untreated vineyards and uses open conical wooden vessels in the cellar. The wines can be unpredictable and strange, but when they find their moment, they are masterworks of tension, perfume and energy. We’re releasing the 2024s and 2023 Survivors alongside a number of wines that needed extra ageing — the full text is on our website and in the Substack newsletter, but here are some of our highlights also:

L’Ontano Vicino 2024, made of Muristeddu and Carignano, reminded us directly of a 2018 drunk recently bottled und Philippe Jambon’s Une Tranche label: sappy and dark, with plum, to***co and lively acidity, and crazy delicious. Next to it is the velvety and soft Box’e Croxiu 2024, with mesmerizing rose and violet aromas and a balsamic finish that, served slightly chilled, drinks like an absolute train. ‘Onna 2024 made of Barbera, Ciliegiolo and Montepulciano, brings earthy blackberries, black cherries and fresh acidity, while ‘Onna Bianco 2024 made of a white blend grown in the same parcel over schist on 450m altitude has a soft tropical-ness and is crazy drinkable.

The three 2023 Survivors carry a certain philosophical weight, as Gianfranco harvested only 15 percent of his usual yields after serious vine fires, but the three wines are all relatively joyful and approachable and great introductions to the world of Panevino.

Gianfranco’s wines are sometimes misunderstood because people are scared of big wines — but after connecting with a few Panevinos, the wine speaks for itself and can be deeply touching. Call or email, or swing by the shop for some extra guidance (also on aged cuvées!); these wines more than deserve it and can bring enormous pleasure. Panevino e pace!

For the second installment of the Island Special, we are moving north along the Tuscan coastline, landing on Isola del G...
05/08/2026

For the second installment of the Island Special, we are moving north along the Tuscan coastline, landing on Isola del Giglio, a micro-island perhaps best known internationally for a rather large cruise ship that sank off its coast. The extraordinary wines of Irene & Francesco Carfagna deserve considerably more of the spotlight than that particular episode, and we think summer (plus autumn, winter and spring) is the best time to be dreaming about Giglio with a glass of Emtivì in hand!

The island is tiny, terraced, and steep, with grapes growing on slopes above the sea from varieties that feel completely at home here. The newest release starts with Emtivì 2024 (formerly Rossetto Bianco, named after the phonetic abbreviation of its three grape varieties: MTV...) — full of bright apricot-y fruits and blossom-y aromatics. Ansonaco 2024 is their macerated flagship: a deep orange from the island’s ancient Ansonica grape, earthy and saline, at moments almost Georgian in character. Rossetto Rosso 2023 is what natural Burgundy fans would (or should!) order if they want to explore the Italian islands — Sangiovese with fruit and fine texture, never overbearing or over-oaked like its Tuscan mainland peers.

Rosso Saverio 2022 is a super-blend from fourteen varieties on the most difficult coastal terraces, and our dear Eva’s favourite wine — which says enough. Main-course wine, with a long life ahead of it.

We also have a few extra bottles of Ansonaco Sole 2020, when fermentation took nearly two and a half years to complete and the wine developed a light oxidative quality alongside a hint of sweetness — precisely our sweet-spot. Wine that transports you to different mental realms without other types of assistance.

Beyond the wines: we can recommend Francesco’s acceptance speech at the Gambero Rosso ‘Winemaker of the Year’ event — a moving, forward-looking talk by a family with big hearts and a deeply philosophical view on life, love, music and winemaking. An organization that does not praise natural wine per se, but chose Francesco as their winemaker of the year. Special!

As promised, we are using August to celebrate a trio of releases from the Italian islands we love so dearly, and we’re k...
04/08/2026

As promised, we are using August to celebrate a trio of releases from the Italian islands we love so dearly, and we’re kicking off the Island Special with new wines by Nicoletta & Francesco of Tanca Nica from Pantelleria! This volcanic island is technically Sicilian but geographically far closer to Tunisia, where Nicoletta & Francesco produce some of the most distinctive wines we know. They mainly work with Zibibbo from age-old alberello bush vines, and on the island everything is determined by heat, wind and volcanic soil, making the differences between vintages even bigger than on the Italian mainland.

Despite the vintage differences, Tanca Nica make wines of calm and composure. Where Bini, the other Pantellerian mastodont, operates at high voltage, Tanca Nica offers something more meditative — though the quality and island-terroir expression are unimpeachable in both cases.

Soki Soki 2025 is back: pale orange Zibibbo from eleven micro-parcels averaging eighty years of age, with ripe peach, apricot and Mediterranean herbs — and considerably more salt and tension than that description lets on. Terra Forte 2024 is its darker sibling, from terraces laid out in 1931, with the warmth and richness of Zibibbo kept brilliantly in check by earthy volcanic depth. Firri Firri 2024 goes in a completely different direction — almost Poulsard in colour, wild rosehip and sea breeze, entirely its own thing. And Zappa! 2025, from vines over a century old, is now available in 75cl for the first time.

We also have very small quantities of four single-vineyard cuvées, 132 bottles each, twelve with us of Bugeber, Cufurà, San Marco and Rukia. Please see the website or get in touch with us for availability and in-depth descriptions of all four of these mesmerizing wines, as they deserve time and attention. We already know which one is our favorite…

Japanese news to start off the week! We have not one but TWO domaine cuvées by Domaine Takahiko available in very limite...
03/08/2026

Japanese news to start off the week! We have not one but TWO domaine cuvées by Domaine Takahiko available in very limited quantities as of today!

Takahiko Soga started making natural Burgundy-inspired wines in Yoichi, on the western side of the northernmost island of Hokkaido in 2010, and currently produces a steady output using vitis vinifera grapes (as opposed to the widespread usage of hybrid grapes by many other Japanese natural wineries), with Pinot Noir in the Nana-Tsu-Mori vineyard being the dominant one.

In the cellar the processing is minimalist, and modern techniques are eschewed. The recipe is simple: fermentation happens naturally, wines undergo whole-bunch maceration, and in general, aging happens in barriques.

Currently, we have both his famous 2024 Nana-Tsu-Mori available, made of 100% domaine Pinot Noir, from the Nana Tsu Mori vineyard, as well as the even more exclusive 2024 Rosé de Noir ‘Grand Cuvée’, made as a saignée… The grapes are grown on volcanic soils, making both wines mineral and saline at the core, with the airy, small-berried fruit of cold-climate Pinot Noir and suave-ness of natural Burgundian practices.

The sale online is limited to one bottle per person, for pick-up only. All shipment orders will be cancelled. For everyone in the trade, please get in touch for availability and more information if needed. Also, more island news coming this weekend… Happy Monday!

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