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Location: United States, Vermont
Winemaker: Deirdre Heeking
Grapes: La Crescent
From the Producer: Grace and Favour has become a La garagista classic. Bottled initially for our London market, a gracious sparkling, it is always ready to fly out the door early in the spring. It gathers itself precociously, as if it knows we need something bright, citrusy, salty, and textured to get us through the months of spring, when more sunny days become consistent. Grown on the gentle west-facing slope in the Vergennes vineyard which we call Les Carouges because of the red-winged black birds that nest there, or we've been know to call it The Lion because of its courageous heart and the bright green foliage that moves like a lion's mane during the summer. Lovely as a young wine, it also has the chops to age for a long time. We recommend having it both ways: to wake up with in the spring, or to keep for awhile. With this wine, you can have your cake, and eat it too.
Our wines are an expression of the season. Each vintage may herald slightly different bottlings, and even wines that we tend to make every year will show variation from vintage to vintage. This intrigues us. We work in the field and cellar as minimally as possible, as guides and companions. We believe that terroir encompasses geology, geography, microclimate, varietal, culture, and the human hand. Wine cannot make itself just like a dish of roasted carrots or an aged cow's milk cheese cannot. Our job is to accompany and support the wine throughout its life in the vineyard and our cantina.
Our fruit is handpicked and sorted, foot crushed through pigéage. We employ glass demijohns and old barrels, flex tanks and an anfora. We rely on the wild yeast found on our fruit, the result of a happy marriage of field and fermentation. We use little to no sulphites at bottling. It depends on the wine and the season.
Location: United States, Vermont
Winemaker: Deirdre Heeking
Grapes: La Crescent
From the Producer: Grace and Favour has become a La garagista classic. Bottled initially for our London market, a gracious sparkling, it is always ready to fly out the door early in the spring. It gathers itself precociously, as if it knows we need something bright, citrusy, salty, and textured to get us through the months of spring, when more sunny days become consistent. Grown on the gentle west-facing slope in the Vergennes vineyard which we call Les Carouges because of the red-winged black birds that nest there, or we've been know to call it The Lion because of its courageous heart and the bright green foliage that moves like a lion's mane during the summer. Lovely as a young wine, it also has the chops to age for a long time. We recommend having it both ways: to wake up with in the spring, or to keep for awhile. With this wine, you can have your cake, and eat it too.
Our wines are an expression of the season. Each vintage may herald slightly different bottlings, and even wines that we tend to make every year will show variation from vintage to vintage. This intrigues us. We work in the field and cellar as minimally as possible, as guides and companions. We believe that terroir encompasses geology, geography, microclimate, varietal, culture, and the human hand. Wine cannot make itself just like a dish of roasted carrots or an aged cow's milk cheese cannot. Our job is to accompany and support the wine throughout its life in the vineyard and our cantina.
Our fruit is handpicked and sorted, foot crushed through pigéage. We employ glass demijohns and old barrels, flex tanks and an anfora. We rely on the wild yeast found on our fruit, the result of a happy marriage of field and fermentation. We use little to no sulphites at bottling. It depends on the wine and the season.