This is a classic La garagista wine, made since our beginning.

The name comes from the vessel it’s aged in: the beautiful glass demijohn. We love fermenting and aging in this vessel. The glass captures a purity and freshness from the wine and the round shape keeps the fermentation circulating. We’ve always been curious about the name. Where did it come from? The story goes that in 1347 Queen Joanna of Naples was exiled to Avignon. Caught in the mistral, she sought refuge in the small castle of a gentleman glazier. When she was shown into his atelier the next day, she startled the artisan at his work. The result was a bulbous vessel that could hold ten liters. Instead of calling the broad-shaped bottle Jeanne-Reine, the modest queen suggested he call it Lady Jane, or Dame-Jeanne. Our damejeanne is a red cuvée of Marquette made from the Vergennes vineyard, fermented on its skins with native yeasts and blended after a period of élevage in glass demijohns.

WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH
roast pork
duck confit
chicken cutlets
creamy tomato soup
grilled steak even

HOW TO STORE THIS WINE: store me upright

Red Wine of Vermont

Damejeanne

VARIETY / Marquette
VINEYARD / Les Carouges Vineyard - Vergennes {Champlain Valley, Vermont}
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites.
ALC/VOL / 12.5%

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.

SOIL / clay, limestone and shale
ELEVATION / 252 feet. Valley floor
AGRICULTURE / regenerative, practicing biodynamic, forest edge ecology, rotational grazing
VINEYARD LIFE / clover, wild carrot, dandelion, mugwort, burdock, thistle, elderflower, purple vetch, chicory, nettle, climbing nightshade, foxtail
MICROCLIMATE / intensely hot and humid summers, western facing with sun all day long. Wind in the morning and still evenings. Cold, damp winters with windchills. Some snow.
FRUIT GROWN / Marquette, La Crescent, Front Gris, Brianna
SIZE / 4 acres {1.6 hectares}