Wines You've Never Heard of (Probably)

⚗ Archive Box | 6 Bottles |✩ Club Member Favorite | ⟷ Past Club Shipments | Low Intervention

Experience the UNPINNED Wine Club with this one-time box through the Wines You've Never Heard of (Probably) Theme. 

$227.00

(Wine Club Vault: Limited Release)

About the Theme

I was never meant to be a wine professional. I went to school for business, worked in tech, and built a whole other career. But something important was clearly missing: passion. I hated almost everything about my day-to-day, and when I finally landed in the hospital, that was my wake-up call to pursue my dream.

 

Traveling the world to find the rare wines that no one else knows about was a longshot dream that turned into a reality, and I'm deeply grateful to you, because if you didn't want to explore these wines with me, I wouldn't have a job. Thank you, truly.

 

— Ashwin

This Box is For...

Six bottles built around one idea: if you've heard of any of these before, we want to know how. This box is great for:

  • A tasting night for the friend who thinks they've already tried everything
  • A gift for someone whose wine knowledge needs a genuine challenge
  • Anyone curious what a nearly extinct Georgian grape or a table-grape hybrid from New Zealand actually tastes like
  • A dinner party where nobody can guess a single bottle before it's poured

A deeper Look: Rare Grape, Rare Name, or Just Rarely Exported?

Not every wine in this box is rare for the same reason. Some of these grapes are genuinely disappearing. Some are just going by a name you've never seen on a label.

  • Jgia is the real rarity here: an indigenous Kakhetian variety that nearly went extinct under Soviet-era vineyard planning, and Otia, who makes ours, is reportedly the only producer working with it today.
  • Trepat is nearly as scarce. It's grown almost nowhere outside Catalonia's Conca de Barberà and neighboring Tarragona, on roughly 1,000 hectares total, and Adernats turns it into a 100% Trepat rosé cava instead of the light still rosé it's normally used for.
  • Morillon isn't a rare grape at all, it's Chardonnay under its centuries-old Styrian name. Lackner-Tinnacher's version, from the Eckberg vineyard in Südsteiermark, is proof that "never heard of it" sometimes just means "never seen that name before."
  • Listán Negro and Viura are both common in their home regions (Listán Negro is the most-planted red grape in the Canary Islands; Viura is nearly 70% of Rioja's white plantings), but rarely travel. Most people who know Rioja know it as red, and most people who know the Canaries don't know its wine at all.
  • July Muscat, in Supernatural's Green Glow, is the real outlier: it's a variety more commonly grown as a table grape than a wine grape, which makes this one of the stranger bottles in the box by design.

Different reasons, same result: six wines you almost certainly haven't tried.

The Wines

  • Adernats Vinícola de Nulles Cava Brut Rosat NV Catalonia, Spain · Sparkling Rosé · 100% Trepat
  • Otia Jgia 2022 Kakheti, Georgia · Red/Amber (qvevri) · 100% Jgia
  • Sierra de Toloño Rioja Viura Blanco 2024 Rioja, Spain · White · 100% Viura
  • Supernatural Wine Co. "Green Glow" 2022 Hawke's Bay, New Zealand · White/Skin-Contact · Marsanne, July Muscat
  • Lackner-Tinnacher Südsteiermark Morillon Eckberg 2022 Steiermark, Austria · White · 100% Morillon (Chardonnay)
  • Frontón de Oro Gran Canaria Tinto 2022 Canary Islands, Spain · Red · 100% Listán Negro
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Watch an insider video from Ashwin about one of the wines in this box

Why I Chose this Theme

This one is personal. Finding wines nobody's heard of is the whole reason I do this job instead of the one I used to have, and a box like this is basically me getting to do what I love most: hand you something like Jgia, a grape with exactly one known producer in the world, and watch you realize wine still has genuine surprises left in it. 

 

If this box works the way I hope, you'll finish it with at least one wine you can't stop talking about, and that nobody else you know has ever tried.

Go Beyond THe Bottle

What makes unpinned different

Each bottle you buy from the UNPINNED Bottle Shop comes with its own unique QR code sticker.

 

Scan the code on your bottle to read Ashwin's handwritten tasting notes, food & wine pairings, and learn more about the story behind your wine.

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