(left to right) 2018 PICPOUL; 2018 ROSÉ; 2017 CINSAULT
Time Place Wine Co.
Every Time Place Wine Co. cork gets stamped with an hourglass encircling grapes and a Google Maps pin. And each label, wrapped in abstract landscape photographs by John Duckworth, lists the exact when and where that the John’s Island-based artist snapped the image. The crisply acidic Picpoul is paired with a shot of the Stono River from early evening in mid-July, while the fresh rosé boasts a pink-tinged April sunrise from nearly the same spot. “I get a little teary eyed and nostalgic at those scenes,” reflects Florence, South Carolina-born winemaker Jamey Whetstone, who spent long stretches surfing the Lowcountry coast before moving to Napa, California, to make natural wines from the ground up. timeplacewineco.com (opens in a new tab)
(left to right) 2017 TOCAI FRIULANO; 2018 CARIGAN; 2017 SÉMILLON
Innate Wines
When describing his low-intervention wines, Innate Wines vintner Nathan DeCamps personifies each as a woman. There’s Sémillon, the fresh, free-spirited, and sassy young girl, who quite differs from the restrained and graceful missus, Tocai Friulano. “Wine evokes a feeling, much the same way as art,” says DeCamps, a Lake City native who left medical school at MUSC to launch his minimalist line out of Paso Robles, California. Each label depicts an original oil by Charleston-based abstract realism painter Whitney LeJeune, who artfully envisions these bottled personalities in female form. innatewines.com (opens in a new tab)
Find these wines locally at Bottles, Edmund’s Oast Exchange, and Graft Wine Shop, among other retailers.