August 2025 at Blackthorn
Dear Initiate,
It’s Cybil, your faithful Archivist, writing to you with soil on my fingertips and a glass of something untamed in hand. August has arrived — and with it, the call to return to the wild.
This month, we’re stripping away the noise and tuning into instinct.
Not the algorithm. Not the label. Not the wine snob whispering tasting notes in your ear.
The earth.
August at Blackthorn is about wine in the wild.
Wines that taste like lava rock and herbs crushed between your fingers. Wines that aren’t here to impress, but to awaken something.
You can expect:
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A podcast episode on volcanic wines — and why they’re basically bottled fire.
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A deep dive into a rosé of Cabernet Franc from the Loire Valley that drinks like wildflower spells and pink peppercorn.
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A forbidden tale about the myth of “natural” wine — what’s real, what’s marketing, and what the industry doesn’t want you to know.
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And of course, seasonal drinking rituals, intuitive wine picks, and wild pairings — yours below:
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