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05.15.2026
La Hermandad de la Uva
La Hermandad de la Uva Wines
Release Price: $99.99
La Hermandad de la Uva - Grenache "Misty"
Only 1,302 bottles produced
La Hermandad de la Uva - Syrah "At His Heels a Cold Stone"
Only 294 bottles produced
La Hermandad de la Uva - Cabernet Franc "Every Now and Then..."
Only 270 bottles produced
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The best $7.99 Pinot Noir you will ever have...
Only 2nd time at $7.99 since 2024!
We saved something special for the weekend!
Rarely, if ever, do we feature wines that cost this much. Heck, just this week we have two wines featured that are $7.99 per bottle. But these wines are somethin' else and you need to know about them!
Nearly 4 years ago we partnered with the Gil Family (HERE), owners of 15 wineries in Spain, on an exciting new project.
Could we start a winery where economics were not involved? If we found the right winemaker and told them they could source whatever grapes they wanted, use whatever barrels they needed, and basically spare no expense on any part of the operation - how good could the wine become?
Most traditional wineries are hindered by whatever economic reality they find themselves in. Maybe it's what they purchased the land for, or they need to make x number of bottles at y price in order to meet their monthly obligations, and so on and so forth.
This would be the exact opposite. Hold on to the inventory in barrel as long as it needs to be there. If the quality we're looking for only yields 20 cases, then all we're going to make is 20 cases.
After interviewing winemakers from Argentina, France, California and Spain, we landed on Silvia Puig - who many of you know from En Numerous Vermells in Priorat.
Silvia is PERFECT for this project. She is a renaissance woman - an artist, winemaker, writer. She names all of her barrels after tasting them based on how they make her feel, and those barrel names are now reflected in the wine names themselves. She painted a painting reflective of the wine she was making and that painting became the label. One example pictured below.
We named the winery La Hermandad de la Uva - or "The Brotherhood of the Grape."
The name is borrowed from John Fante's 1977 novel of the same name. Fante was the son of Italian immigrants, a screenwriter who worked alongside William Faulkner in Hollywood, and a literary hero to Charles Bukowski (who championed his work and helped bring it back into print). In the novel, "The Brotherhood of the Grape" is a group of old Italian men who gather at a winery in California's San Joaquin Valley to drink, gamble, brawl, and argue about life. Their motto: "It is better to die of drink than to die of thirst."
It felt like the right name for a winery built on an absolute refusal to compromise.
Now after a more than 36-month wait, the first wines have arrived in the US. I've now tasted multiple bottles of each, and you can call me biased if you want, but Silvia has delivered the goods.
I personally believe these will be some of the most special wines you will drink this year.
Now for the crazy part - the quantities. They are MINUSCULE.
Syrah: Entire production is 294 bottles. Just 24 cases.
Cabernet Franc: Entire production is 270 bottles. Just 22 cases.
Grenache: This is the "volume" of the operation 😂 - 1,302 bottles, or 108 cases.
And now for the price. Each wine is $99.99 per bottle.
Expensive? For sure.
Worth every penny? No question in my mind - and I'm telling you this as probably the most price-sensitive person you know when it comes to wine.
Consider: the glass bottle alone costs north of $10 per bottle. It's etched, and the back is designed to reflect the slate llicorella soil the grapes came from. The glass mold was custom designed by Silvia specifically for these wines. For context, a standard wine bottle - even for expensive wines - typically costs a winery somewhere between $0.50 and $1.50. An "elegant" heavy bottle might run $2-3. Custom molds alone can cost $10,000 or more. When your bottle costs 5-10x what most luxury producers spend on packaging, you're operating in a completely different universe.
Below are Silvia's notes on each wine.
Outside of two Michelin star restaurants in Spain, Can Bosch and Gaudium, and one other restaurant in Priorat owned by Silvia's husband, these are the only bottles available for sale. I included a photo of a bottle we had when dining at Gaudium in February just for fun.
TGIF! I know what I'm drinking tonight!
Winemaker Notes:
La Hermandad de la Uva - Grenache "Misty"
A selection from two barrels of Garnatxa. One is a blend from two villages in the southern part of the DOQ Priorat: Molar, which sits low in the valley at just 330 feet elevation where the vines bake in the sun, and Bellmunt, slightly higher but equally warm. The other barrel comes from Poboleda in the cooler northern reaches of the region, near the Siurana river, where altitude brings freshness and Mediterranean nights turn continental.
Both barrels were aged in 500-liter French oak on dark llicorella slate - the volcanic soil that forces roots to dig deep, sometimes 20 meters, searching for water through the cracked rock. Yields here are brutal. Some vines produce less than one kilo of fruit per plant.
One of these barrels was named Ella Fitzgerald - because the Garnatxa is complex, deep, and delicate at the same time, just like the music of that artist. Misty is the name of one of her most famous songs.
This Syrah comes from Poboleda, one of the cooler, higher-altitude villages in the DOQ Priorat, tucked into the northern part of the region where the Montsant mountains provide shelter and the river brings life. The vineyards here climb steep costers - terraced hillsides too narrow and vertiginous for machines. Everything is done by hand.
A selection from a single 225-liter French barrel. Silvia writes: "I always like this Syrah because it shows very rich and fresh, taking all the character of the stone (llicorella) and the autochthonous herbs of our mountains - rosemary, thyme, lavender - but also really serious and elegant."
The barrel was named Maggie O'Farrell, after the Scottish writer who wrote Hamnet - an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. "At his heels a cold stone" is a line from the original play. The wine is serious and close to being dramatically good - like the book.
La Hermandad de la Uva - Cabernet Franc "Every Now and Then..."
100% Cabernet Franc from the same vineyard as the Syrah, in Poboleda - planted close to the Siurana river where the llicorella slate mixes with smooth river stones carried down from the Montsant over millennia. The combination brings minerality and freshness that you rarely find in Cabernet Franc from warmer climates.
Silvia writes: "The Cab Franc in Priorat has surprised me - I had never tasted one from here before I made it myself. It shows the grape variety easily but still with this touch of our region: the stone and the rosemary. It is so clean and long. Instead of showing the green touch that some Cab Francs usually have, here we are on the ripe side - black pepper and hints of violet."
The barrel was named Bonnie Tyler because of her song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - which has a kind of wonderful crescendo, same as the wine. On the label: "Every now and then..."
