Meet the Winemaker Who Left California to Grow Grapes in Vermont

Krista Scruggs uses hybrids to produce wines without additives, fertilizers, pesticides or any other chemical intervention from vine to vat.

On a clip of biodynamic vineyards in Grand Isle, Vermont, farmer and winemaker Krista Scruggs is crafting wine from the soil up — in an environment once believed to reject grape-growing entirely and using the wine world’s most trendless, prestige-less natural hybrids to do so.