Currently drinking: When balling out, Claude Courtois, Vin de France, Loire 2015. For skin to skin, Viteadovest, Rina, Terre Sicilia Grillo 2017. For a dope ass rose, Valentina Passalacqua Rosa Terra, Puglia 2018, and for a darker rose Fabien Jouves, A Table!!!, Malbec 2019.
How to order: Helen’s Wines is currently accepting orders via their website. Pick-up and delivery is available in Los Angeles, shipping available nationwide.
Daryl Nuhn, Peoples NYC
“We currently don’t have an e-commerce website. We talk to every single customer, either by phone, e-mail, or text. People are so sweet when writing the styles of wine they want. Someone the other day wrote, “I just want a wine where I can sit on my fire escape and read my book and not feel alone!” which I understand! A lot of people want orange wines and light reds. People are either looking for comfort or the total opposite, something that’s so outside of what they typically try.”
Currently drinking: A wine by Cantina Giardino, called Paski. It’s one of their orange wines. This one tastes so sunkissed, it’s a little salty. It feels like the grape took a nap in the sun. Also a Sauvigon Blanc by Miles Garrett from California. His wines are really fun, and they feel like California. I like when wines taste like the place where they’re from.
How to order: Peoples is currently accepting orders via request form only on their website. Pick-up and delivery available in New York City, shipping available nationwide.
Lily Peachin, Dandelion Wines
“Trendy wines are still trending. The orange wines, the pet-nats, but everyone is buying in bulk. It’s hard to think about stuff right now, so we’re trying to make it easy for people and have started curating 6-packs of wine. Our most popular 6-pack was the ‘Staying Alive Pack.’ This pack was designed to be affordable and all proceeds from the pack went back to the Restaurant Workers’ Relief Fund. When we released this, the response was so great—everyone just wanted to help. Of course everyone is drinking more, but New Yorkers just want to help and give back, anyway they can.”
Currently drinking: I tend to gravitate now, more than ever, towards things that are easy. Things that are lighter, things that are chillable. I get bummed out when there’s not something cold in the fridge to open.
How to order: Dandelion is currently accepting orders via their website. Pick-up and delivery available in New York City, shipping available nationwide.