La Garagista House Music Pet Nat 2022

La Garagista House Music Pet Nat 2022

La Garagista
$42.00

Grape: St. Croix, La Crescent, Marquette, Frontenac Gris, Blanc and Noir
Vintage: 2022
Type: Sparkling

This natural sparkling wine is an ancestral method pét-nat produced by Deirdre Heekin at La Garagista in Vermont. The unique field blend co-ferments hybrid varieties St. Croix, La Crescent, Marquette, and Frontenac Gris, Blanc, and Noir from alpine vineyards. Spontaneous fermentation relies entirely on native vineyard wild yeasts inside neutral vats, completely avoiding modern chemical corrections or filtration; it finishes its continuous fermentation directly inside the bottle without any added sulfur or sugar adjustments to protect its raw character.

It pours a hazy pink-straw color with a lively, effervescent mousse and natural sediment. The nose opens with delicate aromas of wild berries, field herbs, and fresh bread dough. A lightweight and crisp frame balances crunchy fruit profiles with a distinct vein of mineral salinity. A sharp wave of cool-climate acidity cuts right through the mid-palate volume, keeping the texture clean. It finishes clean, bone-dry, and mouthwateringly light on its feet.

La Garagista is Deirdre Heekin's deeply personal Vermont wine project, rooted in biodynamic farming, hybrid grapes and a belief that a marginal climate can have its own fully formed language. Working from hillside vineyards in the Champlain Valley, Heekin and Caleb Barber farm varieties such as La Crescent, Frontenac, Marquette and Brianna without trying to force them into European costumes. The wines are fermented naturally, often with skin contact or sparkling methods, and carry the imprint of orchard, herb, meadow and cold-climate acidity. La Garagista helped make American hybrid-grape wine feel not like compromise, but like discovery.