Kinds of Light 2026 Releases

Our natural wine project, Kinds Of Light, returns with two fresh releases.

This season, we're thrilled to introduce two new wines that capture everything we love about drinking wine in the warmer months: our Rosé Blend 2025 and our Merlot 2025.

Whether you're planning a backyard barbecue or just looking for something easy to sip on a warm evening, these two bottles were made with exactly that in mind.

Kinds Of Light Rose 2025

This Rose is a blend of Seyval Blanc, grown in the Finger Lakes, Chardonnay and Merlot, both grown on Long Island. Seyval Blanc makes up the majority of the blend and creates a zippy, citrus-forward wine with some lovely summer fruit notes from the young Merlot. We fermented all of these grapes in stainless steel and blended them to create a breezy, zesty summer sipper. We taste slightly under-ripe strawberries, lemon peel, and red ruby grapefruit.

Kinds Of Light MERLOT 2025

Our Merlot 2025 was grown and on the North Fork of Long Island and we pressed it as soon as we got the grapes back to the Hudson Valley. With just a few hours of skin contact, the wine is a beautiful light purple in color, and is wonderfully light and fruity. We made this Merlot in the spirit of young French Beaujolais Nouveau wine, which is typically young, fresh, and very fruit-forward. It's a jammy, brambly wine that we like to drink chilled down to just about cellar temp, or even colder on a hot day. We taste blackberry jam, fresh figs, wild blueberries.

New Releases

Wine being poured into a Kinds of Light glass.

Harry ManningJuly 23, 2026Comment