One of our 2024 Imbibe 75 Places to Watch, The Ruby Fruit—a buzzed-about restaurant and wine bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood and the city’s first lesbian bar in years—is all about cultivating a welcoming, community-minded space. This inclusivity extends to how The Ruby Fruit owners Emily Bielagus and Mara Herbkersman curate their wine list, featuring sustainable, all-natural wines produced by women, queer, trans, and non-binary people. “I love highlighting women running the show,” Bielagus told writer Jennifer Fiedler for our January/February 2024 issue. With that in mind, we asked Bielagus to share her favorite small-producer wines of the moment.
FACCIA DI VINO LAMBRUSCO DI SORBARA
Coly Den Haan of LA’s Vinovore, natural wine importer Amy Atwood, and family-owned winery Azienda Agricola Pezzuoli collaborated on this lighter-colored Lambrusco di Sorbara. Bielagus calls the sparkler “spring and summer in a bottle” with its soft bubbles and fresh, fruity notes. It’s “raspberry juice,” Bielagus adds. “Like the juice left over at the bottom of a fruit salad.” $22
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