Join Eliot to learn about the unique growing conditions, grapes, and approaches to fermentation and cellaring that make New England an exciting, emerging wine region, as we taste several Marzae wines. (21+)

Eliot Martin & Katie Luczai founded Marzae Wines to build community around quality, sustainable, local wine production in Massachusetts, building on the natural wine movement igniting new interest in underappreciated wine regions. Eliot brings together the best grapes (and other fruit/botanicals) from across the Northeast to craft unique minimum-intervention wines, ciders, co-ferments, and aperitifs that reflect our local terroir. In its third year, Marzae has taken over management of an abandoned vineyard, planted the state's first regeneratively farmed vineyard, and opened a tasting room/restaurant/retail concept at Boston Public Market over the past few months. Follow @Marzaewines

This session is part of the second annual Somerville Fermentation Festival — a bubbling celebration of fermented foods and the people (and microbes!) who make them.

The festival is free and open to the public, featuring 20+ local fermenters and growers, a free Kraut Mob demo, a Fermentation Help Desk, culture-sharing, live music, and ready-to-eat food. Ticketed programming runs in two rooms all day. Your ticket to this session reserves your seat for this event only.

Browse all ticketed sessions and the full festival schedule at somervillefermfest.com.