La Garagista: winemaker Deirdre Heekin

Big news this week coming from Deirdre and Caleb of La Garagista!

"First, the New York Times featured us last week in Eric Asimov's The Pour. “How the Most Delicious Wines Stay True to Themselves: 6 Winemakers Who Value Originality Above All”."

Also, Food and Wine announced their second annual 2023 Drinks Innovators of the Year, and we are very happily included!"

La Garagista

winemaker Deirdre Heekin

Barnard, Vermont

We began creating La garagista Farm + Winery, this farmstead landscape, in 1999 with first efforts at restaurant gardens, as the sister and backbone to our long-standing osteria pane e salute which ran for twenty years in the village of Woodstock, Vermont; the winery opened its doors in 2010 with the first vintage. We closed the restaurant in 2017 in order to focus our attention solely on the farm and winery and our pop-up projects. Deirdre Heekin is winegrower, organizer, writer, photographer, flower farmer, would-be designer. Caleb Barber is gardener, cook, designer, builder, mechanic, factotum, philosopher, farm manager. Camila, the assistant winegrower, is grower, organizer, creator, systems manager, right hand. We are farmers. Just like the garden spills into the vineyard, and the roses spill into the orchard, we always have a flow of creative people who lend their skills, thoughts, and energy to the project at hand whether its pruning, planting new vines, turning new beds, or harvesting. For them, we are forever thankful.

These are the hands and hearts that make La Garagista.