This one is bright, fruity, spicy, with soft fruit. In A Dark Country Sky is named after Taurus, one of the oldest constellations named in the early Bronze Age. It’s full of supernovas and meteor showers and sits in the winter sky where once it marked the location of the sun during the spring equinox and the birth of a new season. Mythology calls Taurus loyal and courageous. This wine, like Taurus, is a testament to the perseverance and resilience of our alpine vines, to their fruit and whole clusters that shine like sister stars, and to the heart of the earth that infuses them.

Dark Country Sky has become a classic Domaine La Garagista signature, and a great wine to introduce DLG wines as it is fruity and accessible, but also elegant with great aging capability. This vintage has an edge of earthy black currant that grounds it, and like the summer is sultry. Picked in September, the fruit began fermentation whole cluster for three days, then was destemmed, foot crushed, and pressed with a layer cake of stems and fruit. The combination of stems and native yeasts brings a happy complexity to this wine, which is always very fruity as well as savory and lighter than the skin-fermented Damejeanne from the same block. Final elévage in glass demijohn. The wine was bottled in August of 2025. 

WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH
A cheeseburger
Roast chicken
Sweet Italian sausages
Roast salmon or trout (especially if the trout is finished with a sauce of woodland berries)

STORING & SERVING SUGGESTIONS:
This is a really elegant wine meant for long aging, but it’s hard to wait when it’s drinking so well now.