
Empowering customers to make socially conscious choices about the winegrowers they support.
We partner exclusively with women winegrowers/owners who produce organic and sustainable wines in France, Italy and beyond.
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This delicious rosé will see you through happy hour with a bowl of chips or a charcuterie board and carry you right through dinner with ease. Pale salmon in color, its soft and elegant perfume of white flowers, argume and passion fruit makes it that much more enjoyable to drink. Delicate yet concentrated this wine blooms on the palate with soft notes of tree fruit and more generous notes of exotic fruit. Structured and well-balanced with pleasing length, this wine is delightful. Sophie Lafourcade - pictured below in the wheel barrow :) - makes wine at her home in the Bandol area of southern France just above the Mediterranean Sea. Domaine Les Luquettes was handed down to Sophie from her mother and has been in the family since 1791. No pesticides, no herbicides, harvested by hand.
Hi Marilee - It was a pleasure to meet you and I love the rose! I have the 2nd bottle chilling in the fridge and gave the 3rd away as a gift :) Looking forward to trying your other offering soon! xoxo
I really enjoyed your knowledge and your obvious love of the vino!
Marilee Bramhall
founder
We believe in women
We believe in wine
We believe in sustainability
We believe in having fun!
Our mission is to elevate the work of women in the world of wine
Why women?
It’s time to tell their stories and drink their wines. Women have been producing enchanting wines throughout the ages, but so many of their stories have yet to be told. Men have run the world of wine for centuries. We elevate women by sharing their wines and their stories.
Why wine?
It brings us together in times of joy and sorrow. Wine is a mysterious elixir that for centuries has given us pleasure and eased our vexations. It is present at grand dinners as well as simple, solitary meals. It connects us with both nature and hedonism.
Why sustainability?
The most vibrant, alive and exciting wines are grown in living soil; soil that is part of a thriving and interconnected system of life. Taking care of the soil is essential so that it can keep giving us these marvelous wines.
Why Fun?
What better way to celebrate great food, great moments and great friends than with wine? Wine doesn’t have to be pompous and fussy; its sole purpose is our pleasure and enjoyment. Let’s replace the stodgy and inscrutable parts of wine with fun!
Of course, we’re going to source and select delicious wines for you and bring them to you from earth to glass, but that’s not why you should join our movement. Join us because you believe in women, you believe in wine, you believe in sustainability.
Let’s have some fun together! We want you to connect with these women winegrowers through their wines (and you can come visit them with me if you want!).
About Our Founder:
Marilee Bramhall vividly remembers her first sip of wine; a left bank Bordeaux paired with a wonderful dinner prepared by her Dad. That single sip has led to a lifetime of curiosity and wonder. After nearly a decade in the WA and CA wine industry Marilee began her study of old-world wines. Since then, she has completed with the Highest Honors the certifications for French Wine Scholar and Italian Wine Scholar. She has completed the examination for WSET L2 with Distinction and is a French Wine Scholar Instructor for the Wine Scholar Guild at Cellar Muse Wine School cellarmuse.com. In addition Marilee has completed programs with the Bureau Interprofessionel des Vins De Bourgogne in Beaune, France: a Masterclass for Wine Educators and a Five-Day Bourgogne Wines Intensive Masterclass in Bourgogne, France. Marilee lives in Seattle with her husband Christopher and their yellow lab Aspen.
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iola wines does not sell alcoholic beverages to people under the age of 21. By using this website you are confirming that you are over the age of 21 and that any alcohol you purchase from this site is intended for personal consumption and not for resale. An adult signature (21+ years of age) is required upon delivery. If you intentionally or unintentionally misrepresent your age in order to provide alcohol to a person under the age of 21, iola wines will thoroughly pursue this matter with legal counsel.
Return Policy
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