{"title":"Artemis Botanical","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Artemis Botanical wines we carry come from the United States. We list their sparkling wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vineyards are organically farmed. The wines are natural and vegan. Everything below is listed whether it is in stock or sold out, so you can see the range and set a restock alert on anything that has gone.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"piquette-second-flush-artemis-botanical-natural-piquette","title":"Artemis Botanical Piquette Second Flush","description":"\u003cp\u003ePiquette is made by rehydrating pressed grape pomace with water, allowing it to ferment for a few more days, then pressing again. The result is a low-alcohol, lightly sparkling beverage with a different character than the primary wine — more lactic and prickly, with a texture closer to a wild sour beer than conventional wine. Artemis Botanical borrows the term \"second flush\" from tea cultivation to describe piquette made from later-ripening, end-of-season fruit: Cinsault, Grenache, and Flora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlora is a California original, bred in 1938 by UC Davis viticulturist Dr. Harold Olmo as a cross of Semillon and Gewurztraminer, and not released commercially until 1958. It produces wines with subtle aromatics, a soft texture, and flavors that lean toward lemon and honey rather than the overt spice of its Gewurztraminer parent. Artemis sources the Flora from Yorkville in Mendocino County. There is very little of it left planted in California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust before bottling, a small quantity of Bay Area honey is added to give the remaining yeasts enough sugar to generate a gentle sparkle in bottle. The wine is unfiltered and bottled quickly to preserve its liveliness. No sulfur or other additives are used at any stage. All fruit is organically grown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artemis Botanical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39421954097351,"sku":"ARTESECO20C","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/artemis-piquette-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186334"},{"product_id":"take-it-easy-but-take-it-artemis-botanical-natural-wine","title":"Artemis Botanical Take it Easy but Take it 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eTake it Easy but Take it is a skin-contact white wine from Artemis Botanical, a St. Helena-based project focused on organic-farmed northern California fruit, spontaneous fermentation, and zero added sulfur. The blend is Muscat and Flora, both macerated on the skins for 10 days. Muscat comes from Acampo, in the northern San Joaquin Valley. Flora comes from Tom Rodrigues at Maple Creek Winery in the Yorkville Highlands AVA of southern Mendocino County.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlora is a rare UC Davis cross developed in 1938 by Dr. Harold Olmo, using Semillon and Gewurztraminer as parents. It was bred to produce aromatic wines with lower acidity than other coastal California whites. In skin-contact form, it brings a slightly oily texture and structural backbone to the blend, while the Muscat drives the perfume. The producer describes the effect as Georgian amber wine on a beach day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtemis Botanical began as a project to make fortified and aromatized wines under an organic, hands-off approach. It has since expanded to include table wines, piquette, grappa, and amaro, all made with organically grown fruit, native yeast fermentation, and no additions including sulfur. Fruit is sourced from sites across northern California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artemis Botanical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41076309164231,"sku":"1101","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/artemis-botanical-take-it-easy-but-take-it-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780185687"},{"product_id":"what-we-need-is-here-artemis-botanical-natural-wine","title":"Artemis Botanical What we Need is Here 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat We Need Is Here is a skin-contact white wine from Artemis Botanical, a northern California natural wine project. The blend brings together Muscat and Pinot Gris, both sourced from eastern Contra Costa County, in the San Francisco Bay AVA. Both varieties were co-fermented on the skins for 10 days, producing the amber color and textural grip that define the wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe producer describes the Pinot Gris as the structural backbone of the blend, contributing low-key red fruit character and tempering the more exuberant aromatics of the Muscat. The result sits closer to a restrained, savory amber wine than a fruit-driven skin-contact white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtemis Botanical works exclusively with organically farmed fruit, ferments spontaneously with native yeasts, and adds no sulfur or other cellar additives. Wines are zero-zero by design, not exception.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artemis Botanical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41076330299591,"sku":"ARTEWHAT20C","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/artemis-botanical-what-we-need-is-here-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780185684"},{"product_id":"mad-farmer-pinot-noir-artemis-botanical-natural-wine","title":"Artemis Botanical The Mad Farmer Pinot Noir 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Mad Farmer is a direct-press rosé made from 100% Pinot Noir grown in Petaluma, California, within the Petaluma Gap AVA. Winemaker Ian Thorsen-McCarthy tended the vineyard himself — a small, unconventional plot on a residential cul-de-sac. In 2020, faced with heavy wildfire smoke during harvest, he pressed the fruit directly into barrel to minimize skin contact and avoid smoke taint, a decision that shaped both the wine's pale color and its transparency on the palate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtemis Botanical works exclusively with organically farmed fruit from across northern California, ferments with native yeasts only, and adds no sulfur or other additives at any stage. This is a zero-zero wine in the strictest sense. The direct-press approach here yields a wine with the structure and cool-climate acidity you expect from the Petaluma Gap, without the weight of extended maceration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Petaluma Gap AVA sits roughly 25 miles north of San Francisco in southern Sonoma County. Strong afternoon marine winds funnel through a low break in the coastal hills, driving diurnal temperature swings of 40 to 50°F. Soils are predominantly clay and clay loam of volcanic origin. These conditions push toward high natural acidity, restrained alcohol, and pronounced savory character in Pinot Noir.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artemis Botanical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41076477624519,"sku":"ARTEFARM20C","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/artemis-botanical-the-mad-farmer-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780185682"},{"product_id":"sage-advice-artemis-botanical-natural-wine","title":"Artemis Botanical Sage Advice 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eSage Advice is named for Daniel Sage, the Ardeche-based natural winemaker who pioneered the flottaison technique. In flottaison, direct-pressed juice fills the space around whole-cluster fruit inside a sealed tank, substituting for the CO2 used in standard carbonic maceration. The result combines the high-toned, fruity aromatics of intracellular fermentation with the gentler extraction of direct pressing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 2020 bottling uses four varieties sourced from Rough and Ready in Nevada County, Sierra Foothills: Syrah and Roussanne were pressed and the resulting juice poured over whole clusters of Cinsault and Grenache inside a sealed fermentation tank. The blend is unusual, pairing two Rhone reds with a white grape in the press fraction, which adds aromatic lift and texture to the fermentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtemis Botanical works exclusively with organically farmed fruit from across northern California, ferments spontaneously with native yeasts, and adds no sulfur or other additives. The wines are zero-zero by design, not by compromise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artemis Botanical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41076560756935,"sku":"ARTESAGE20C","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/artemis-botanical-sage-advice-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780185679"},{"product_id":"dial-m-for-muscat-artemis-botanical-natural-wine","title":"Artemis Botanical Dial \"M\" for Muscat 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eDial \"M\" for Muscat is a 100% Muscat Blanc sourced from organically-farmed fruit in Acampo, a town in San Joaquin County that sits within the Mokelumne River sub-AVA of the larger Lodi AVA. The grapes were macerated on their skins for 10 months in a flex tank, a sealed, flexible-wall vessel that Artemis uses as a modern equivalent of the amphora. No additives, including sulfur, were used at any point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcampo vineyards sit on deep sandy loam soils with excellent drainage, moderated by the daily Delta breeze that pushes cool air inland from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This temperature swing between warm days and cool nights is key to retaining the aromatic intensity that makes Muscat worth working with in the first place. Ten months of skin contact moves this wine well past the pale amber register into something with real texture and grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtemis Botanical works exclusively with organically-produced fruit from across Northern California, ferments spontaneously with native yeasts, and adds nothing in the cellar. The result is a zero-sulfur, zero-additive orange wine that treats Muscat as a serious variety rather than a sweet, simple one. Expect the floral and stone-fruit character of the grape wrapped in a grip of tannin and a savory, oxidative edge from the long maceration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artemis Botanical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41076675313863,"sku":"ARTEDIAL20C","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/artemis-botanical-dial-m-for-muscat-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780185676"},{"product_id":"damaged-goods-artemis-botanical-natural-wine","title":"Artemis Botanical Damaged Goods NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eDamaged Goods is a non-vintage red blend from Artemis Botanical, a small northern California producer working exclusively with organically grown fruit and adding nothing in the cellar — including sulfur. The wine combines two separate harvests: 2019 Pinot Noir and Valdiguié, both macerated on the skins, blended with 2020 Grenache that was direct pressed. The Grenache was pressed early specifically to avoid smoke taint during the severe air quality events of the 2020 California wildfire season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2019 Pinot Noir component came from a Russian River Valley vineyard that sustained frost damage, which cut yields significantly but opened a brief window for Artemis to work with otherwise expensive, tightly allocated fruit. The Valdiguié — historically mislabeled as Napa Gamay across California until DNA analysis clarified its identity in 1980 — adds a high-toned red fruit character and bright acidity to the blend. Both were fermented spontaneously with native yeasts and received skin contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtemis Botanical operates as a one-person project with roots in fortified and aromatized wines — vermouth, amaro, grappa, and piquette all sit alongside the table wines in the lineup. The name of this wine is a nod to the Gang of Four track of the same name, not a comment on wine quality. All fermentations are spontaneous, and zero additives are used at any stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artemis Botanical","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41076756709575,"sku":"ARTEDAMA20C","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/artemis-botanical-damaged-goods-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780185674"},{"product_id":"sumu-kaw-syrah-artemis-botanical-natural-wine","title":"Artemis Botanical Sumu Kaw Syrah 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtemis Botanical Sumu Kaw is a red natural wine made from 100% Syrah from Dave and Sheila of the famous-to-me Sumu Kaw vineyard in Placerville, California. 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