The fundamental ethos — yes, you could call it the underlying code — for all the kurkku restaurants is respect for the environment. That translates into using organically grown vegetables and meat from reliable free-range sources.
Not surprisingly, it also means serving "natural" wine. The compact wine list is entirely populated with what is known here as "bio" — basically organic or biodynamically grown, although not necessarily all sulphite-free
Here are two we had with our lunch the other day at code kurkku. The Domaine des Huards is 100% Romantin, a grape not a million kilometers away from Chardonnay, giving quite a strong Chablis profile.
The Coenobium was especially good. A blend of Trebbiano, Malvasia, and Verdicchi, apparently it's made by Cistercian nuns in Lazio just north of Rome. Fruity and light but with a pleasing complexity, it went very well with our pasta, and the chicken that followed, too.
