Alanna Lagamba grew up in Toronto, fell in love with natural wine while working in Berlin, and eventually found herself making wine in the Rheinhessen region of Germany. Her project, Vin de Lagamba, reflects the trajectory of a life spent moving between cultures: it is equal parts German, Italian in spirit, and entirely its own thing. She began after gaining experience at JAJA Berlin and drinking, by her own count, more than a thousand natural wines. When you have done that kind of research, you know what you want to make.
FrauenPower and the Beginning
The first Vin de Lagamba vintage produced FrauenPower, a fruity, energetic pet-nat made from Dornfelder and Sylvaner grown in the Rheinhessen. Inspired by the Italian Lambrusco style, she macerates part of the Dornfelder in whole bunches for a week, presses the rest directly, and blends the two fractions before bottling for secondary fermentation. The result is a wine of explosive energy, tinted red-pink, and filled with the kind of uncomplicated joy that good pet-nat demands.
Cuvee Royale and the Serious Side
Beyond FrauenPower, Alanna produces Cuvee Royale, a traditional-method sparkling Sekt that represents her more deliberate approach to sparkling wine. The discipline required for bottle fermentation and disgorging, applied with the same organic sourcing and zero-sulfur philosophy that runs through the entire range, produces a wine of genuine complexity and fine mousse. Vin de Lagamba is not a one-trick project.
Collaboration and Community
Vin de Lagamba has collaborated with Pauline Baumberger of Glow Glow Wines on POWERGLOW, a joint natural wine project also based in Rheinhessen. Her work is embedded in a Berlin and Rheinhessen natural wine community that is among the most energetic in Europe. These are wines with personality, made by someone who came to winemaking through genuine love rather than inheritance, and that path is audible in every bottle. We also carry the Frauen Power Perlwein and Mehr Frauen? Ja Bitte!
