Mt. Washington Wine & Spirits

Mt. Washington Wine & Spirits Artisanal wine shop offering a curated selection of wine, spirits, and beer in Baltimore, MD

For Friday’s tasting, we’ll be joined by our fav brother-sister duo: Cristina and Marco Doria of Italian importing compa...
09/03/2026

For Friday’s tasting, we’ll be joined by our fav brother-sister duo: Cristina and Marco Doria of Italian importing company Doria Wines! 🇮🇹

It was the memories of growing up together in Italy, surrounded by family, friends, food, and wine, that inspired Cristina and Marco to start their importing business.

What makes their wines different? They focus on…

🍇 native grape varieties
🧑‍🌾 sustainable and responsible farming
🏺 small-scale production
🚫 minimum intervention
🤍 winemakers personally involved in *all* aspects of the process

Swing by for a taste of 5 wines that check allll the boxes ✅ (have you heard of any of these grapes before?!):

🍍 Podere Delle Torre Cocciola
100% Cocciola
Salty pineapple, a velvety-smooth palate with hints of nuts and laser-sharp acidity.

🥜 Asotom Ops Timorasso 2023
100% Timorasso
Savory, honeyed notes on the nose, with creamy texture and bright acidity framing a pecan finish.

🍊 La Vela Randa Zibibbo 2024
100% Zibibbo
Guava, honeysuckle, and tangerine on the nose with minty, peppery herbal on the palate.

🍒 Stefano Rossotto Vivace Freisa di Chieri 2024
100% Freisa
Jammy cherry and cranberries lead into a mineral-driven palate with earthy notes and a pleasant fizz.

🫒 Le Banchette Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2020
A blend of Corvina, Corvinone, and Rondinella
Aromas of olives, white peppercorns, and cherry cola, with a spicy, dark, juicy, crunchy palate.

See you sooooon (Friday 4-7pm!)!

Today 4-7pm: take a trip to the Mosel 🇩🇪 with a Riesling tasting!From dry to lusciously sweet, Riesling offers a spectru...
08/28/2026

Today 4-7pm: take a trip to the Mosel 🇩🇪 with a Riesling tasting!

From dry to lusciously sweet, Riesling offers a spectrum of styles that cater to diverse palates and is loved and respected by wine enthusiasts and industry professionals.

Yet, curiously enough, it is rarely a top pick for most wine drinkers. I think, in part, because it’s often misunderstood. 🤔 Let’s see if we can change that!

Riesling is renowned for its versatility, complexity, and ability to express terroir like no other grape variety. 🍇

For today’s tasting, we will explore trocken (dry) and feinherb (slightly off-dry) styles of Riesling from the Mosel region of Germany, 🇩🇪 with two important wineries located just across the Mosel River from each other.

Swing by 4-7pm for a taste of…

🍑 Weingut Weiser-Künstler Riesling Feinherb 2025
Fermented in stainless steel down to off-dry levels of residual sugar (18 g/l). Wild herbs, stone fruit and bergamot. Juicy with a long, fresh, slightly salty finish.

🍋 Weingut Vollenweider Riesling Trocken 2025
Fermented dry (no residual sugar here) in stainless steel (90%) and wooden cask (10%). Flowers, minty herbs, and aniseed with a tangy, smoky minerality. Mouth-wateringly tart!

Friday 4-7pm: Orange wine! 🧡 Your favorite easy white wine, now with a sun-kissed glow and a bit more personality—still ...
08/21/2026

Friday 4-7pm: Orange wine! 🧡 Your favorite easy white wine, now with a sun-kissed glow and a bit more personality—still refreshing, just ✨ even more interesting. ✨

Orange wine—or skin-contact white wine—is when we apply the red winemaking technique to white grapes. (No, no actual 🍊 oranges are used here—we’re still 100% grape-based!) 

The extended contact of the grape juice with the skins is what gives this style of wine its honey-to-amber color, 🍯 textural weight, 🏋️‍♀️ and tannic structure. 🧬

The longer the skins stay in the mix ➡️ the deeper the color and the bolder the flavors.

These wines combine the lightness and crispness of a white wine with the mouth-filling texture and subtle tannins of a red….Plus, they pair fantastically with grilled foods, 🍔 charcuterie boards, 🧀 and bold, spicy summer dishes. 🌶️

Swing by to taste…

🍑 Populis Macerated White 2025
45% Chardonnay, 15% Grenache blanc, 10% Tocai Friulano, 7% Orange Muscat, 7% Picpoul, 7% Vermentino, 5% Ribolla Gialla, 2% Sauvignon blanc, 2% Colombard from California
Time on skins: ranging from ~5-14 days, depending on the grape!
Dried apricot, citrus rind, honeysuckle, and quince. Noticeable tannic structure, and a fresh finish.

🍉 Monte Rio Cellars Vermentino “The Bench” 2024
100% Vermentino from California
Time on skins: 30 days
Nectarine, melon, pink grapefruit, dried chicory, while the palate shows dried apricot, pomelo zest, crushed herbs, and a juicy finish.

🌊 Alessandro Viola Carricat 2024
70% Carricante, 30% Catarratto from Sicily, Italy
Time on skins: 48 hours
White flowers, apricot, and sea breeze on the nose with subtle texture ad notes of citrus, pear, bitter almond, and a mineral finish.

🚨 Field Recordings tasting this Friday 4-7pm! 🚨 We’ll be joined by Tim Fulnecky, one of the winemakers behind Field Reco...
08/13/2026

🚨 Field Recordings tasting this Friday 4-7pm! 🚨 We’ll be joined by Tim Fulnecky, one of the winemakers behind Field Recordings !

Field Recordings makes wines that are unique, flavorful, and full of personality from diamond-in-the-rough vineyard sites in California’s Central Coast. 💎

You may remember Tim from last year’s Field Recordings tasting (swipe!), or, if you’ve been around a while 👋 you may have even met FR founder Andrew Jones on a Monday tasting back in 2024 (swipe some more!).

Either way, this duo producers some of our favorite small batch, soulful wines and we can promise this is one winemaker tasting you don’t want to miss!

Tim will pour these 5 killer wines! 👇

🦪 Chenin 2025
🍇 100% Chenin Blanc sourced from Central Coast, California
The underdog variety that started it all! Meyer lemon, fresh quince, minerally, nutty, oyster shells, and chamomile.

☀️ So Far Out Bright White 2025
🍇 39% Petit Manseng, 27% Chenin Blanc, 20% Sauvignon Blanc, 14% Grenache Blanc sourced from Santa Barbara, California
Bright White lives up to its name: it’s bright in color, acid, and personality! Peach, honeysuckle, saline, viscous texture, and an herbal finish.

🍾 Pét Nat 2022
🍇 86% Cabernet Franc, 14% Chardonnay sourced from Paso Robles, California
Bottled before fermentation finishes to capture natural fizz, you’ll find vivid aromatics with those gentle bubbles. Wild strawberries, fresh rosemary sourdough, and watermelon Jolly Rancher.

🍕 Pizza Nights 2025
🍇 100% Gamay Noir sourced from Central Coast, California
Pizza Nights is the wine to pair with a warm, welcoming crew of friends appreciating life over a few pizzas. Juicy red fruit, light to medium body, soft tannins, lively acidity, and a clean, refreshing finish.

🍒 Fiction 2024
🍇 21% Cinsaut, 17% Lagrein, 16% Cabernet Franc, 13% Charbono, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Sangiovese, 6% Alicante Bouschet, 4% Zinfandel, 2% Grenache, 2% Trousseau sourced from Paso Robles, California
A field blend that comes together to tell the tale of the vintage. Fresh blackberry, white pepper, cherry, leather, granite, and warm spice culminate in fresh finish that keeps it easy to drink.

See you soon??

Tasting today 4-7pm: the magic of Martha Stoumen ✨Martha Stoumen Wines was founded in 2014 out of a desire to recapture ...
08/07/2026

Tasting today 4-7pm: the magic of Martha Stoumen ✨

Martha Stoumen Wines was founded in 2014 out of a desire to recapture a farming and winemaking culture that has all but faded away—one of patience in an industry that often prioritizes speed and scale.

While California’s largest wineries churn out millions of cases annually, Martha crafts roughly 8,000 cases of thoughtfully produced wines that tell the story of each vintage and vineyard.

The results are nothing short of ✨ magical ✨ unexpected varieties that dance with life, new interpretations of California classics that challenge conventions, and wines that somehow manage to be both intellectual and joyful.

Swing by from 4-7 pm to experience the magic of these wines, poured by our friend Evan Biner of Kellogg Selections!

Evan will pour…

🌊 Post Flirtation White 2022
30% Vermentino, 27% Roussanne, 25% Marsanne, 18% Muscat Blanc
Roussanne, Marsanne, and Muscat get just a hint of skin contact, while the Vermentino is fermented separately in stainless steel. Ocean air mingles with lemon zest, and refreshing summer flavors like a slightly salty lemonade with a hint of hops.

🏔️ Honeymoon 2022
55% Colombard, 45% Chardonnay
Candied melon, alpine herbs, and almond skin. Balanced, with bright, integrated acidity and rounded texture.

🍉 Post Flirtation Rosé NV No 5
75 % Nero d’Avola, 25% Vermentino
Super fruity on the nose with watermelon Jolly Rancher and tamarind on the palate, offering savory notes and a full, balanced texture.

🍊 Post Flirtation Red 2022
62% Zinfandel, 34% Carignan, 3% Pinot Noir, 1% Petite Sirah
Radiant aromas of ye**ty chocolate, orange peel, and a hint of rose precede a palate full of rhubarb and pomegranate, with baking spices balanced by savory herbal notes.

🍒 Benchlands 2022
40% Petite Sirah, 30% Zinfandel, 20% Nero d’Avola, 4% Valdiguié, 4% Colombard, 2% Carignan
A Cal-Italia exploration of Mendocino County’s uplifted benchland soils, reminiscent of a Cerasuolo—somewhere between a dark rosé and a light red wine—highlighted by floral aromatics and a bright, fruitful core of blackberries, sour cherry, violets, and white pepper leading into silky tannins.

Friday’s free tasting (4-7pm): Singular rosés 💫 singular in the sense that they are exceptional *and* in that they are m...
07/30/2026

Friday’s free tasting (4-7pm): Singular rosés 💫 singular in the sense that they are exceptional *and* in that they are made from just one grape 🍇(no blends here!).

The world of rosé is as diverse as red or white wine. By using only one☝️grape variety, winemakers can showcase the unique characteristics of that particular grape, such as its flavor, aroma, and texture, as well as how it behaves in different terroirs. ⛰️🏝️

Swing by to taste…

🍓 Domaine de la Chézatte Sancerre Rosé 2025
100% Pinot Noir from Sancerre, Loire Valley, France

Did you know the wine region of Sancerre is an excellent place to grow Pinot Noir? Domaine de la Chézatte is a fourth-generation, family-owned estate in the most northerly village in Sancerre.

Aromas of apricot mingle with orange peel, opening up to a fresh and juicy red berry palate with subtle flinty minerality and beautiful structure.

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🪻 Bioweingut Oppenauer Rosé 2025
100% Zweigelt from Weinviertel, Austria

Grape scientist Dr. Friedric Zweigelt crossed local red grapes Saint-Laurent and Blaufrankisch, to develop a thriving red grape varietal, Zweigelt.

Oppenauer follows the motto ‘From, For and With Nature.’ Tasting their thoughtful wines offers the opportunity to experience the harmony of a 200-year-old family tradition combined with careful, sustainable agriculture. Aromas of cherry, wild strawberries, and hints of violet, precede a palate with lively acid elements, juicy minerality, and a finely structured, floral and herbal finish.

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🍋 Audarya Rosato 2025
100% Grenache (aka Cannonau di Sardegna) from Sardinia, Italy

For a long time, experts thought Spanish rulers brought Grenache to Sardegna in the 1300s, but further archaeological studies found Cannonau seeds dating back 3,200 years, suggesting it may have actually originated on the island and spread outward!

On the nose, this rosé opens with citrus and tropical fruits. On the palate, the entry is soft, elegant, and balanced, followed by a pleasant acidity that stimulates freshness with crisp minerality.

Special Thursday tasting 🍶 sake with Niigata Sake Selections rep and Sake Master Carrie Basye Becker!If you’re curious a...
07/23/2026

Special Thursday tasting 🍶 sake with Niigata Sake Selections rep and Sake Master Carrie Basye Becker!

If you’re curious about Japanese rice wine, ✨ today 4-7pm ✨ is the perfect time to swing by, ask your burning questions, and taste a few of the different styles!

Carrie will pour:

🧈 🍶 Kirinzan Junmai Ginjo Sake
Kirin is a mythical creature much like a flying unicorn and is believed to bring about happiness. This sake is full-bodied, complex, and on the drier side. The nose is floral, creamy, and nutty with mushroom, lemon, and herbal notes. Multiple layers of flavor: buttery, lemony, rich on the palate, smooth and pleasant umami.

🍍 🍶 Kumo Nigori Junmai Sake
From Master Brewer Takeshi Tanaka, this sake reflects his effort to uphold the principle of producing sake with sweetness and softness in a natural environment, while sticking to the basics. Mild & creamy. Complex savory flavors with hints of tropical fruits.

🍌 🍶 Onda 88 Junmai Sake
A domaine-style sake producer, which is very rare in the Japanese sake industry, Onda grows the local specialty sake rice “Ippon-Jime” on its own land near the Shinano River and the Echigo Mountains. Off-dry with rich, juicy rice-laden flavors and funky aromas of salted toffee and bananas flambé.

🌰 🍶 Matsunoi ‘Lone Pine’ Tokubetsu Honjozo Sake
Matsunoi Shuzojo, one of the smallest breweries, has won more gold medals than any other brewery in Niigata at the Japan National Sake Competition in the last decade. Extremely limited production. This sake features aromas of peach, almond, and hazelnut. Crisp, nutty, and dry.

See you soon?

Today 4-7pm 🍾 an all bubbly line up with Giorgio Angiolini from Cantina della Volta! 🥂🇮🇹Cantina della Volta is championi...
07/17/2026

Today 4-7pm 🍾 an all bubbly line up with Giorgio Angiolini from Cantina della Volta! 🥂🇮🇹

Cantina della Volta is championing a more quality-focused vision for Lambrusco rooted in the Traditional Method, emphasizing bottle fermentation and extended lees aging rather than the more common tank method.

This change in approach—combined with a terroir very similar to that of the Champagne region—yields wines that combine vibrant fruit, refreshing acidity, subtle savory character, and exceptional versatility at the table. 🍽️

Giorgio will pour…

🍾 BrutRosso 2017
100% Lambrusco di Sorbara
The wine that got us hooked on Cantina della Volta: a red Lambrusco that rests for 9 months on the lees. Rich fruity flavors followed by a pleasant, clean, and persistent finish. An excellent balance between acidity and savoriness.

🍾 Il Mattaglio Brut NV
70% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Nero
“Il Mattaglio” is a white sparkling wine wine that rests on the lees for 24 months. Fresh, taut, and complex on the palate with a hint of fruity peach and mango, and elegant minerality, with a savory, persistent finish.

🍾 Millesimato Bianco Christian Bellei 2017
100% Lambrusco di Sorbara
This white bubbly made from light red Lambrusco grapes rests on the lees for at least 72 months (that’s 6 years…). Delicately floral on the nose, the palate reveals beautiful acidity, with notes of raspberry, red currant, lemon zest, and rose, with a savory, mouth-watering finish.

🍾 La Prima Volta Rosato Zero Dosaggio 2018
100% Lambrusco di Sorbara
“La Prima Volta” is a reserve rosé sparkling wine not made in every vintage. After disgorgement, the wine is topped off without the addition of sugar (zero dossagio), and is then aged 33 months on the lees, and an additional year in the cellar to allow the wine’s complexity to evolve. A fruity and floral nose leads into a velvety, soft palate full of freshness. The finish is clean, distinct, and thirst-quenching, offering bright citrus and mineral notes.

See you soon?

Today’s tasting: the wines of Tenuta Gorghi Tondi 🇮🇹 a renowned, organic Sicilian winery run by sisters Annamaria and Cl...
07/10/2026

Today’s tasting: the wines of Tenuta Gorghi Tondi 🇮🇹 a renowned, organic Sicilian winery run by sisters Annamaria and Clara—the fourth generation of the Scala family! 👋

The special sauce for Gorghi Tondi? Their vineyards are truly on the banks of the Mediterranean and surrounded by a World Wildlife Fund heritage site (swipe to see!) prized for its extreme biodiversity and natural spring basins.

Join our friend Vinny from Italian importer Wide Roots from 4-7pm on Friday for a taste of four wines that embody the essence of Sicily. ✨

Vinny will pour…
🍍 Coste a Preola 2024 🍇 100% Grillo
Bright yellow in color, the nose is like an afternoon in early summer 🌞 with the scent of the sea elegantly blending with exotic notes of pineapple, fresh mint, and white peach

🍵 Meridiano 12 2025 🍇 100% Zibibbo
An elegant balance between the vibrant acidity of the fruit and the marine salinity of the coastal vineyard. 🌊 Extremely aromatic white wine with hints of almond, orange blossom, sage, and green tea.

🍓 Rosa Dei Venti 2025 🍇 100% Nerello Mascalese
Bright and brilliant, wonderfully combining the fragrances of Mediterranean scrub and the colors of the most beautiful sunsets on the beach, this rosé bursts with wild strawberry, citrus, and a kiss of coastal breeze. 🌬️

🍊 Dumé 2025 🍇 100% Frapatto
Cheerful and lively 🥳 evoking raspberry, blood orange, and pomegranate, with good underlying structure and silky, mellow tannins in delicate balance.

See you soon?

Friday’s tasting: 3 wines to take you from 🥵 to ❄️☺️❄️ all from American Independent Winemakers!Swing by from 4-7pm on F...
07/02/2026

Friday’s tasting: 3 wines to take you from 🥵 to ❄️☺️❄️ all from American Independent Winemakers!

Swing by from 4-7pm on Friday for some free AC (gotta keep the wine-babies happy!) and a free tasting of these three refreshing (chilled!) small-batch, estate-grown wines produced by family-owned vineyards.

Perfect for keeping things cool on the 4th of July! 🇺🇸 We’re pouring…

🧂 Old Westminster Winery ‘Salt’ 2024
🍇 55% Chardonnay, 30% Grüner Veltliner, 15% Albariño from Maryland
‘Salt’ is a bright, coastal-inspired blend that’ll make you feel like you’re at the beach…even if you’re really just eating hot dogs in your neighbor’s backyard. Combining skin-fermented Grüner Veltliner, Chardonnay, and Albariño, this wine delivers aromas of stone fruit and crisp citrus, and a palate with subtle salinity, tropical notes, and vibrant acidity.

🌛 O**m Rare Form Day Moon NV
🍇 100% Riesling (but make it a Brut Nature sparkling wine) from Oregon
Fermented in amphora then aged on the lees for 1-2 years in old French oak, ‘Day Moon’ delivers a soft and exotic mousse, dry with toasty peach, apricot, and pastry notes, with all the structure and complexity of your favorite aged Champagne. What pairs better with a night of sparklers than a sparkling wine?

🍒 Monte Rio Cellars Mission ‘Somers’ 2024
🍇 100% Mission from California
Mission is a truly Californian grape variety that has been planted in the state longer than any other. The wine boasts a captivating nose of candied orange rind and Campari, complemented by fine tannins; the palate is well-balanced, herbal and savory, with bright, juicy acidity. Juicy, crushable, and best served chilled.

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1340-E Smith Avenue
Baltimore, MD
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