La Garagista Field Studies Blood Root Kindle Sparkling Red Wine 2021

Producer's note: Our Field Studies family of wines is an exploration of other landscapes in Vermont and partnerships with other farmers. Blood, Root, Kindle is one of three wines we are making from a high alpine vineyard on the backside of a southern Vermont mountain, an undertaking of memory and dream, Fruit is grown by Shabir Kamal on the Thurber family farm {Lilac Ridge} in a field described by daisy fleabane, Carolina horsenettle, and limestone outcroppings. Dairy cows graze in the bony meadow above where lilacs must have once been.

100 percent Marquette grown alongside a block of Brianna, this is from the vineyard's fourth leaf, bright and young and full of promise. The name of this wine comes from a line in the poem 'Burn Permit' by poet-farmer Ross Thurber from his collection 'Pioneer Species'.

We like this wine with:
prosciutto
bacon cheeseburgers
nachos
pork belly
dim sum
insalata caprese
crostini with olive tapenade

native yeast
no added sulfites