current drop

Name: current drop
Brand: Gestalt Wine Co.
SKU: DRP012
Price: 349.0 USD
Availability: InStock

In this drop, we are featuring another grape that we haven’t featured before to GESTALT members. In this case, the Safe Word release showcases the elusive, mysterious, Malbec grape variety. 2023, from the Chalk Hill district of Sonoma County.

Our Safe Word Malbec walks the line between the French and Argentinian versions. It is dark, serious, round, rich, structured, and impeccably balanced. There’s just enough of everything in this wine - brambly fruit nose to let your mouth know that there is an inbound treat coming, nice clean entry which fans out and lets you know this is serious wine that will reward the efforts from the kitchen, and a finish which is satisfying but not fatiguing.

$349

Item is exclusive to members

about our drops

Every quarter, members receive a themed collection of six bottles, crafted exclusively for Gestalt. Each drop is different—sometimes a single wine, sometimes a mix —but always intentional, always delicious.

If you discover a favorite, members have exclusive access to purchase additional bottles through our online store until the release sells out. Over time, we’ll also introduce select wines to the public—but members always enjoy significant pricing advantages and first access.

about malbec

Malbec is one of the 5 great Bordeaux varieties, along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. In Bordeaux, it has become a minor blending grape of late. Elsewhere in France, it is frequently referred to as Cot, and is the principal grape of the Cahors region, in Southwest France, where it makes a dark, tannic, long lived wine. Long ago, Malbec was exported to Argentina where it became the principal wine made, and makes a much more approachable, fruit driven wine.

Welcome to the theme of Drop 012, Safe Word. This issue began with a phrase we couldn’t stop circling: “safe word.” A term borrowed from intimacy, from boundary-setting, from trust. But the more we said it, the more it warped. It became a metaphor for all the strange ways we try to feel okay in a world that seems deeply committed to the opposite.

safe word

this drop's theme

Welcome to the theme of Drop 012, Safe Word. This issue began with a phrase we couldn’t stop circling: “safe word.” A term borrowed from intimacy, from boundary-setting, from trust. But the more we said it, the more it warped. It became a metaphor for all the strange ways we try to feel okay in a world that seems deeply committed to the opposite.

this drop's zine

In this issue, we rummage through the places where we once felt safe—homes, language, digital spaces, storage units, memory—and try to figure out what safety means when you weren’t really raised to believe in it. These essays are part field guide, part confession, part PSA for the emotionally underprepared.

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