DOMAINE WINES

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 winery.  

Our fruit is handpicked and field-sorted, foot crushed through pigéage. We employ glass demijohns and old barrels, flex tanks and 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 sulphite at bottling. It depends on the wine and the season.

We currently make about 35 different cuvées, including several ciders. Most of the wines are farmed by us and made with domaine fruit. We currently have a small family of wines called Field Studies which are collaborations between us and other farmers in order to explore making wines from different terroirs in Vermont where we don’t farm.

***Please note that we have wines in the marketplace that may no longer be available through the farm, and wines available only at the farm and no longer in the marketplace. You can order wines from Domaine La Garagista directly, or see your favorite wine shop nearest you for inquiries about what might be available to you locally.

La Selva means forest or jungle, and this vineyard, on clay, limestone, and shale, is described by the wild flora and fauna that create a certain magic in the vines.

LA SELVA VINEYARD
West Addison, Vermont

RED HORSE VINEYARD
Bridgewater, Vermont

This vineyard is on a high mountain slope, in an old pasture tucked beneath an orchard on glacial till of schist, gneiss, and granite.

HOME FARM VINEYARDS
Barnard, Vermont

La Forestière - Upper Vineyard
Les Bonnes Femmes - Lower Vineyard

Comprised of two mountain vineyards on volcanic soils facing each other, Les Bonnes Femmes and Les Forestières, the homefarm vineyards are a study of wines from the garden where the orchard feeds into the rose garden which blends into the vineyard which surrounds a secret garden full of vegetables and flowers, grazed by sheep, and inhabited by wild creatures from the forest.

LES CAROUGES VINEYARD
Vergennes, Vermont

This vineyard on clay, limestone, and shale, is defined by wide-open space full of the epic romance of a mythic novel, grand gestures, battles of bravery, lost and found love, stories of courage and heart, and is protected by Les Carouges, the red-winged blackbirds who make nests in the vines for the season.