Leaning Post · The Natural Collection
Six wines from our Niagara vineyards, made with as little interference as we dare: picked by hand, fermented by the yeasts that live on the vines, and bottled with little or no added sulphites. Mix any of them into a case and save.
6
Natural wines
100%
Niagara grown
Wild
Native-yeast ferments
0–6 ppm
Sulphites in our lowest
Why we make these wines
Most of what we make at Leaning Post is about precision. These six are about trust. We pick and sort every cluster by hand, let fermentation start on its own, and use vessels that people were making wine in thousands of years before stainless steel.
The result is wine that tastes exactly like where and when it was grown — a warm Four Mile Creek autumn, a cool Lakeshore vintage, the silty loam of our own Senchuk Vineyard. Every vintage is a little different. That's the point.
“It’s all about the people, and the terroir, of course.” Ilya senchuk- winemaker
What makes them special
Every cluster is hand-picked and hand-sorted, so only clean, healthy fruit makes it to the cellar. Natural wine starts with nothing to cover up.
No packaged yeast. Fermentation starts on its own with the native yeasts that came in from the vineyard, so each wine carries its own site.
The Freak gets no added sulphites at all, and The Natural Gamay has just 6 ppm in total. The wine stays alive, textured and expressive.
Clay amphora, concrete tanks, skin contact, bubbles finished in the bottle. Old techniques we keep exploring because they still surprise us.
Mix & match
Choose any combination of the six. The more you mix, the more you save. We apply your case code for you.
6 to 11 bottles, any mix.
NATURAL10 · auto-applied
One of each wine
$210.78$234.20
12 or more bottles, any mix.
NATURAL20 · auto-applied
Two of each wine
$374.72$468.40
Sparkling · Muscat Ottonel
Bottled while it's still fermenting, so the bubbles are made by the wine itself. Explodes with lime, fresh ginger, guava and orange peel. Serve well chilled.
$29.20
Tasting notes
White · Riesling
Our ongoing lees experiment, carried forward vintage after vintage. Charcoal smoke and flint over stone fruit, with a rich, creamy texture.
$36.20
Tasting notes
Skin-fermented white
An orange wine fermented on its skins in concrete, one of the oldest ways to make wine. Floral and bright. Decant for 15 minutes and watch it open up.
$33.20
Tasting notes
Red · Gamay
From the Oppenlander Vineyard in Four Mile Creek, with just 6 ppm total sulphites. We think it's the best Gamay we've ever made.
$35.20
Tasting notes
Red · Pinot Noir
Estate Senchuk Pinot, fermented whole-cluster in amphora with nothing added. Bing cherry, damp moss, black olive and freshly turned soil.
$55.20
Tasting notes
Red · Merlot
Fermentation started on its own, and so did malolactic. Wild blueberries, leather and moss, like an autumn walk through a lakeside forest.
$45.20
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Good to know
New to natural wine? Here's what to expect when you open a bottle.
For us it means hand-harvested fruit, fermentation started by native yeasts instead of commercial cultures, and as little added as possible, sulphites included. The wine is guided, not engineered.
Yes. Any combination from our Natural Wines Collection counts. Six bottles of Pet Nat, two of each, or a dozen Freaks all work. Reach 6 bottles to save 10%, or 12 to save 20%.
Automatically. When you add a case from this page, we apply NATURAL10 (10% off 6+ bottles) or NATURAL20 (20% off 12+ bottles) to your cart for you.
Because we step in so little, you may see a soft haze or a bit of sediment, especially in the Pet Nat. It's a sign of a living wine, not a flaw. Pour gently, or give the bottle a slow tip to mix it through.
Serve the Pet Nat well chilled and pour right away. Give Clockwork 15 minutes in a decanter, since its aromatics change a lot as it breathes. The reds show best slightly cool, so try 20 minutes in the fridge before opening.
Fill a case with the wines that taste most like Niagara, or come taste them with us first. Our tasting room is open daily 10–5, and until 6 on weekends.
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