This wine holds a particularly special place in our hearts.  It's a red co-fermented field blend of six different grapes, three red and three white, from the homefarm vineyards in the mountains.  It is the sister wine to House Music, and both are love letters to this magical land.  Made from Marquette, Frontenac Noir, St. Croix on the red side and La Crescent, Frontenac Blanc and Gris on the white, it's gemlike color and silky brightness, make this an exciting and exhilarating wine.  Fruity with vibrant acidity, it's perfect to pair with summer meals.

WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH
Cured meats
Pureed vegetable soups
Sauteed mushrooms and herbs
Chicken or duck liver pate
Any kind of pate really!
Crispy roasted brussels sprouts
Roast pork
Pan-grilled duck breast with rosemary and peppercorns
Salt roasted salmon with capers

HOW TO STORE THIS WINE: store me upright

Red Wine of Vermont

Native Love

VARIETY / Marquette, Frontenac Noir, St. Croix, Frontenac Blanc, Frontenac Gris & La Crescent
VINEYARD / Les Bonnes Femmes and Les Forestières Vineyards - Barnard, Vermont
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites.
ALC/VOL / 11.5%

LES BONNES FEMMES VINEYARD
& LES FORESTIÈRES VINEYARD

Barnard, Vermont

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

SOIL / volcanic comprised of clay, limestone, granite, schist, gneiss, quartzite, amphibolite, garnet
ELEVATION / 1615 feet
AGRICULTURE / regenerative, practicing biodynamic, forest edge ecology, rotational grazing
VINEYARD LIFE / bedstraw, wild alpine strawberry, buttercup, buckhorn plantain, goldenrod, milkweed, white campion, old field cinquefoil, red fescue, devil’s paintbrush, Joe pieweed, crabapple
MICROCLIMATE / warm, humid summers with rain. South facing slope intensifying sun from high noon to early evening. Winters snowy and cold, occasionally bracing winds.
FRUIT GROWN / Marquette, Frontenac Noir, St.Croix, La Crescent, Frontenac Gris, Frontenac Blanc
SIZE / 3.5 acres {1.4 hectares}