ZAFA Wines is a natural wine project founded and run by winemaker Krista Scruggs, one of the most widely covered Black women in American natural wine. The label makes natural wine, cider and sparkling wine from cold-hardy hybrid grapes, farmed under a no-spray program the winery describes as ancestral and beyond organic. Scruggs started out in Vermont and has since relocated: ZAFA now identifies its home as Trout Brook Vineyard in the Saint Croix River Valley at Hudson, Wisconsin, so older listings pointing to Burlington are out of date.
Wine is sold direct to consumers online and through the Counterspell Club membership, which is the most reliable way to get bottles from small production runs. Fast Company has profiled Scruggs as being at the forefront of a movement that is shaking up winemaking by embracing outside influences.
The website and shop are live, though no street address, phone number or email is published, and the most recent posts on the embedded social feed date to December 2024, so it is worth confirming current fulfillment before you plan around an order. If hybrid-grape natural wine is new to you, this is a good place to start. Order today.
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