What’s a Garagiste? Why would you want to go to a Festival about garages? Pronounced garage-east, the word garagiste comes from Bordeaux meaning small-lot wine makers who sometimes worked out of their “garages” — basically any place that wasn’t a chateau. Working independently, and thinking for themselves, these renegades refused to abide by rules or traditions. Today “Garagiste” is a movement of innovative winemakers; back in 2011, California’s Garagiste Festival in Paso Robles was the first to showcase the wines of American garagiste winemakers at an event that also raises money for scholarships for the next generation of winemakers.
Founded by garagistes Stewart McLennan and Douglas Minnick, the Garagiste Festivals offer opportunities for wine lovers to taste rare, premium, hard to find wines from these new and innovative limited-production winemakers.
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