Each week, Vif Wine|Coffee offers up a fine, natural wine as an example of the best of their incredible collection. This week, Vif and its sister store, Petite Soif, are featuring what they jokingly call a ‘Vegan Vampire Wine’ – a 2019 Domaine Guion ‘Cuvee Domaine’ from Bourgueil, France for $21.
Described as ‘medium bodied with modest tannins’, this cabernet is made from a dark, lush fruit tamed by a charming high-toned minerality. The wine pairs well with charred root vegetables, roasted onions, dark, leavy greens and duck or steak made with a berry gastrique. From the Loire Valley of France, the grapes are grown in clay and limestone soil in a vineyard that has been certified organic since 1965.
This 2019 Domaine Guion is aged in a large cave shared by a handful of families. This historic cave in France once served as a Resistance hideout during World War II. Purchase this natural wine, or one of the many others imported by Vif, in the café at 4401 Fremont Ave N in Upper Fremont – or at Petite Soif, on Beacon Hill, at 3309A Beacon Ave S. Find out more on the VifSeattle.com website.