The Wine Attic

06/21/2026

Gavi, Langhe Nebbiolo, Barolo, and Barbaresco today at The Wine Attic of Clifton!

Father's Day Wine Tasting with Juan
Sunday 12-6 @ The Wine Attic of Clifton

Happy Father’s Day!

I’ll be at The Wine Attic of Clifton today from 12–6 PM, and we’re featuring a special wine tasting for the day: Nebbiolo & Friends.

Today’s tasting lineup:

🇮🇹 Vite Colte Gavi di Gavi
🇮🇹 Pico Maccario Langhe Nebbiolo
🇮🇹 Broccardo Barolo I Tre Pais
🇮🇹 Vite Colte Barbaresco Riserva Spezie

We’ll start with Gavi, then work our way through Nebbiolo from Langhe to Barolo and Barbaresco while talking about one of Italy’s great wine regions: Piemonte.

From one dad to another, I don’t think Father’s Day needs to be a big production. Maybe you’re grilling, maybe you’re enjoying the weather, maybe your kids are working today and you’re quietly proud of that (like both of mine are).

If your day brings you through Clifton — maybe before or after visiting one of our great local restaurants — I’ll be upstairs and happy to show you a great time.

🍷🍷
Juan Navarro
Owner, The Wine Attic

Allow me to show off my beautiful children on this fine Father's Day...

The Wine Attic
Historic Clifton & Lorton Station
thewineattic.com (http://www.thewineattic.com)

Historic Clifton
7145 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Clifton, VA 20124

Lorton Station
9000 Lorton Station Boulevard, Suite Q
Lorton, VA 22079
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06/19/2026

New wines arriving today, Nika is pouring Barnard Griffin, and Team USA plays in Seattle at 3 PM. GO TEAM USA!

It’s a busy day at The Wine Attic of Clifton!

Cases are arriving, shelves are being restocked, and we’re finally seeing some familiar favorites make their way back into the shop.

If you’ve stopped in recently and noticed a few empty spots, keep checking back. New wines are arriving today, and we’re excited to start filling the shelves out again.

Meanwhile, Team USA takes on Australia today at 3 PM in Seattle.

Since the match is being played in Washington State, we’re staying in Washington State with our wine picks:

🇺🇸 Barnard Griffin Rosé of Sangiovese
🇺🇸 Barnard Griffin Riesling
🇺🇸 Barnard Griffin Syrah
🇺🇸 Barnard Griffin Merlot
🇺🇸 Barnard Griffin Syrah Port-Style Wine

These are this month’s Wine Club selections, all from Washington’s Columbia Valley, and a perfect way to support Team USA this afternoon.

Nika will also be pouring Barnard Griffin wines today & tomorrow at The Wine Attic of Clifton (12-8 PM), including their fabulous Rosé of Sangiovese — one of our favorite warm-weather bottles and very much the star of today’s Team USA / Washington State pairing.

Expected arrivals today at The Wine Attic of Clifton:

🇦🇹 Austria:
• Paul D. Riesling 1L (limited engagement but we were able to source some more!)
• Paul D. Rosé 1L
• Paul D. Zweigelt 1L

🇵🇹 Portugal:
• Quinta de Cabriz Dão Colheita Seleccionada Red
• Quinta da Alorna Tejo Lutra Tinto
• Quinta de Cabriz Dão Colheita Seleccionada Rosé

🇭🇷 Croatia:
• Zlatan Otok Cuvée Dalmatia
• Skaramuča Plavac Mali Dingač Dalmatia

🇬🇷 Greece:
• Papargyriou Moschoudi-Assyrtiko Wild Ferment

🇮🇹 Italy:
• La Cantina Pizzolato “Muse” Prosecco Spumante
• La Cantina Pizzolato Paloma Muse Spumante Rosé Brut Secco
• La Cantina Pizzolato Organic Alcohol-Free Sparkling
• Rubus Veneto Pinot Noir

🇨🇱 Chile:
• Rubus Colchagua Valley Chardonnay

🇺🇸 California:
• Rubus California Cabernet Sauvignon
• Rubus Old Vine Zinfandel Reserve
• Rubus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Also, I’ll be working at The Wine Attic of Clifton for Father’s Day this Sunday 12-6, and I’m planning a special tasting for the day. Stay tuned for details!

The best way to discover what’s new is the old-fashioned way: come visit us at The Wine Attic of Clifton, see what’s arrived, and let’s talk wine.

See you soon!

🍷🍷
Juan Navarro
Owner, The Wine Attic

The Wine Attic
Historic Clifton & Lorton Station
thewineattic.com (http://www.thewineattic.com)

Historic Clifton
7145 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Clifton, VA 20124

Lorton Station
9000 Lorton Station Boulevard, Suite Q
Lorton, VA 22079
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06/15/2026

New Zealand, Austria, Croatia, and Team USA are on the schedule — come talk wine with us this week.

The World Cup continues this week, and several countries close to our hearts are on the schedule!
..and that gives us a very good excuse to talk about wine.

At The Wine Attic of Clifton, we have wines in stock from several countries playing this week — including New Zealand, Austria, Croatia, and of course, the United States — and we’d love to help you pick something fun for the match.

Come by the shop, tell us who you’re watching, what you’re eating, or what kind of wine you usually like, and we’ll help you find the right bottle.

A few highlights this week:

🇳🇿 New Zealand vs. Iran
Monday night
Lexicon Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough New Zealand - A fan favorite and a perfect summertime wine.

🇦🇹 Austria vs. Jordan
Tuesday night / early Wednesday
Hillinger Secco Sparkling Rosé
Tegernseerhof T26 Grüner Veltliner
Steininger Riesling Kamptal DAC
Hillinger Small Hill Red Blend

🇭🇷 Croatia vs. England
Wednesday afternoon
SoHu Sparkling Graševina from Slavonia
Skaramuča Plavac Mali Dingač from Dalmatia.
BTW — Marko and I will be at The Wine Attic of Lorton during the match, pouring Croatian wines and cheering accordingly. Come hang with us!

🇺🇸 USA vs. Australia
Friday afternoon
Team USA takes on Australia in Seattle, so obvs we’re recommending Washington State wine: this month’s Barnard Griffin Wine Club selections from Washington’s Columbia Valley:

Rosé of Sangiovese 2024
Riesling 2024
Syrah 2023
Merlot 2023
Syrah Port-Style Wine 2023

Stop by The Wine Attic of Clifton this week and we’ll help you pick a bottle for the match.

See you soon,
Juan

The Wine Attic
Historic Clifton & Lorton Station
thewineattic.com (http://www.thewineattic.com)

Historic Clifton
7145 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Clifton, VA 20124

Lorton Station
9000 Lorton Station Boulevard, Suite Q
Lorton, VA 22079
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06/14/2026

Taste Austrian wines today in Clifton with Juan — 12–6 PM

HAPPY SUNDAY!

Today at The Wine Attic of Clifton, I’ll be pouring a special Austrian wine tasting from 12–6 PM featuring several producers we visited during our recent Austrian wine tour.

We’ll be tasting:

🇦🇹 Hillinger Secco Sparkling Rosé
🇦🇹 Tegernseerhof T26 Grüner Veltliner
🇦🇹 Steininger Riesling Kamptal DAC
🇦🇹 Hillinger Small Hill Red Blend

I’ll also be sharing stories from the trip, the wineries, and the people behind the wine.

The shop is open 12–6.

See you in Clifton,
Juan

The Wine Attic
Historic Clifton & Lorton Station
thewineattic.com (http://www.thewineattic.com)

Historic Clifton
7145 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Clifton, VA 20124

Lorton Station
9000 Lorton Station Boulevard, Suite Q
Lorton, VA 22079
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06/14/2026

We’re back in reel form 🍷

Juan went to Austria 🇦🇹 Marko heard Australia🇦🇺. Hilarity ensues.

Also: Barnard Griffin Wine Club b/w next week’s Book Club meeting!

And yes, we’ll try to do these more regularly again.

That’s Austria. Not Australia. No matter how good Adelaide Chardonnay is 🦘

06/08/2026

Six wines from Uruguay with Francisco Carrau tonight, 5–7 PM.

This Evening!

Monday 6/8
Francisco Carrau Visits Lorton
🇺🇾

Tonight at The Wine Attic of Lorton, we’re welcoming Francisco Carrau for a special winemaker visit from 5–7 PM.

The Carrau family is one of Uruguay’s most historic wine-producing families, and Francisco will be here in person to pour, answer questions, and share the story of his family’s winery.

We’ll be tasting six wines, moving from sparkling and fresh whites into Pinot Noir and two expressions of Uruguay’s signature grape, Tannat:

• Carrau Brut Nature Sust 2021
• Carrau Chapeu Sauvignon Blanc 2024
• Carrau 1752 Petit Manseng 2024
• Carrau Chapeu Pinot Noir 2023
• Carrau Chapeu Tannat 2024
• Carrau YSERN Tannat 2020

No reservations required — just stop by, taste, and meet the winemaker!

Tonight, Monday 6/8
5–7 PM
The Wine Attic of Lorton
9000 Lorton Station Boulevard
Suite Q
Lorton, VA 22079

The Wine Attic
Historic Clifton & Lorton Station
thewineattic.com (http://www.thewineattic.com)

Historic Clifton
7145 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Clifton, VA 20124

Lorton Station
9000 Lorton Station Boulevard, Suite Q
Lorton, VA 22079
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06/05/2026

June Wine Club is here — Taste & Trade this weekend + Francisco Carrau visits Monday

June Wine Club has arrived!

This month we're visiting Barnard Griffin Winery in Washington's Columbia Valley, one of the pioneering family wineries that helped establish modern Washington wine. The lineup includes Riesling, Rosé of Sangiovese, Syrah, and Merlot, and arrives with a story that unexpectedly connects Washington, Austria, family wineries, and the next generation of women helping shape the future of wine.

It's also a special month for us because today is Renée's birthday. As the June Wine Club story explains, somewhere between Austria, Washington, Riesling, family wineries, Griffins, and a few Led Zeppelin references, this month's club quietly became a birthday tribute to Wifely herself.

Happy Birthday, Renée! 🎉🍷

Taste & Trade pickup events are here!

📍 Lorton — Friday, June 5 from 5:30–7:30 PM
📍 Clifton — Saturday, June 6 from 4–7 PM

In addition to the core Wine Club lineup, we’ll also be pouring two bonus wines during pickup events: Barnard Griffin Chardonnay 2023 and Barnard Griffin Syrah Port-Style Wine 2023.

Wine Club members can stop by, taste through the June lineup, make trades if they’d like, and pick up this month’s wines.

Curious about Wine Club? You’re welcome to come by during Taste & Trade, too. We’d be happy to show you how it works.

Monday: Francisco Carrau Visits Lorton

This Monday, June 8 from 5–7 PM, we’re excited to welcome Francisco Carrau to The Wine Attic of Lorton for a special winemaker visit.

The Carrau family is one of Uruguay’s most historic wine-producing families, and Francisco will be here in person to pour, answer questions, and share the story of his family’s winery.

We’ll be tasting six wines, moving from sparkling and fresh whites into Pinot Noir and two expressions of Uruguay’s signature grape, Tannat:

• Carrau Brut Nature Sust 2021
• Carrau Chapeu Sauvignon Blanc 2024
• Carrau 1752 Petit Manseng 2024
• Carrau Chapeu Pinot Noir 2023
• Carrau Chapeu Tannat 2024
• Carrau YSERN Tannat 2020

No reservations required — just stop by, taste, and meet the winemaker.

The Wine Attic
Historic Clifton & Lorton Station
thewineattic.com (http://www.thewineattic.com)

Historic Clifton
7145 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Clifton, VA 20124

Lorton Station
9000 Lorton Station Boulevard, Suite Q
Lorton, VA 22079
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06/02/2026

Austrian wine, brought to you. 🇦🇹🍷

This weekend we had the pleasure of hosting a private in-home tasting focused on the wines, regions, and producers we just visited during our Austria wine tour.

One of our favorite things about wine is how much more meaningful it becomes when you connect the bottle to a place, a family, a meal, and a story — and Austrian wine gives us so much to talk about.

Thank you to our wonderful hosts for such a beautiful evening.

Interested in hosting a private wine tasting at home? Reach out to The Wine Attic and we’d be happy to help create something special.

Austrian Wine

05/28/2026

Austria Wine Tour Recap: Day 5 / Wachau, Thermenregion & Back to Vienna


Day five was our final day together.

We checked out of LOISIUM and headed into the Wachau for Tegernseerhof in Unterloiben, just below Durnstein. The winery’s history goes back more than 1,000 years, and there is still a cannonball embedded in the outer wall from the Napoleonic fighting in the Wachau.

Our tasting was hosted by Lisa, who had worked harvests with the team. Everything is hand-harvested because the terraces do not allow for machines. After hearing about carrying grapes up and down those hillsides, the Wachau terraces looked a little different.

My personal favorite was the Dürnstein T26 Grüner Veltliner Federspiel. The single-parcel wines may be the more serious bottlings, but T26 is the one I kept coming back to: bright, mineral, energetic, approachable, and built for hours of enjoyment under almost any circumstances.

After lunch at Wachauer Stube and a guided walk through Dürnstein, we headed to Oberwaltersdorf for our final wine dinner at Weingut Hartl.

Heinrich and Marie-Sophie Hartl brought the whole trip home: Pinot Noir, St. Laurent, Rotgipfler, Zierfandler, cellar time, garden greens, family hospitality, and one last long table.

Heinrich was a gracious host, walking us through the cellar and sharing how he thinks about the wines, especially Pinot Noir. Marie-Sophie was equally central to the experience. Klaus introduced her as “a force,” and that is exactly how she came across: winemaker, host, marketer, mother, and someone who understands Austrian wine on a global level.

Together, Heinrich and Marie-Sophie felt like the point of the whole visit: serious wine, real hospitality, family life, and a clear vision for what the Thermenregion can be.

The Pinot Noir focus really came into view with Ried Graf Weingartl 1ÖTW: red berries, forest floor, cedar, spice, and a mineral-salty finish. It made Heinrich’s ambition to produce some of Austria’s best Pinot Noir feel very real.

That wraps the first Wine Attic Austrian wine tour - ending, fittingly, with one last rooftop night at MOOONS in Vienna. Servus!

05/28/2026

Austria Wine Tour Recap: Day 4 / Carnuntum & Burgenland


Day four was the monster day, so yes, this one gets the monster carousel.

We left Langenlois after breakfast and headed southeast to Carnuntum, the far eastern edge of Lower Austria, for a morning with the Netzl family in Göttlesbrunn. By this point, the bus had become its own little traveling clubhouse: naps, conversations, quiet windows, and that familiar road-life feeling somewhere between wine tour and the “Wanted Dead or Alive” video.

At Netzl, Christina greeted us with one of the most impressive 0.0 sparkling wines we have ever tasted — infused with tea for texture and complexity. From there came the cellar, the barrels, the wines, and Mama Christine Netzl’s famous Hungarian-style goulash.

This was goulash goulash - the stuff of my dreams…

The standout wine was Anna-Christina, a top red built from Zweigelt, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon: dark fruit, ripe tannins, complexity, and polished Carnuntum confidence.

From there, we continued into Burgenland for Steindorfer in Apetlon, where Roland led the tasting while Ernst was there in support. We tasted reds, whites, sweet wines, Kardinalschnitte with Cuvée Klaus Beerenauslese, espresso with Maresi, and their “Golden Cut” Chardonnay that showed a very different side of the winery.

Then it was on to Hillinger in Jois, where Leo Hillinger himself came out to greet the group. We tasted deeply, had a proper jause, and even gave feedback on 2023 and 2024 Pinot Noir barrel samples.

The Hillinger standout was Hill 1: Merlot, Blaufränkisch, and Zweigelt with dark fruit, structure, length, and unmistakable Burgenland warmth.

After all that, we still had a three-course dinner back at LOISIUM. By then, I was too zazzed by the day to remember to take any dinner photos.

By the end of the night, we were full, tired, happy, and very aware that Austria was not letting us coast into the finish.