Scruggs makes unusual natural wines, such as some combining biodynamic hybrid grapes with foraged apples for a wine/cider crossover. Her first vintage was 2017 and immediately she began being lauded by some of the highest-profile media venues a winemaker could hope for. Wine Enthusiast put her in its Top 40 under 40 list of tastemakers in 2018. Bon Appetit magazine ran a feature in 2019 titled "Krista Scruggs Is Making the Most Exciting, Most Delicious Natural Wine Right Now". Time magazine called her tasting room, a joint operation with a cider producer, one of its 100 Greatest Places of 2019. In August 2020, NBC's Today show did a segment on her. Host Sheinelle Jones opens it with the prophetic line: "Krista Scruggs has always been a bit of a rulebreaker."