Garagiste Festival Uncovers Emerging Artisan Winemakers

PasoGaragiste.com announced today that the influential, but under-recognized, ‘garagiste’ winemaking community will converge for the first Paso Garagiste Festival: Celebrating the Artisan Winemaker, November 11-12 at the beautiful 724-acre Windfall Farms in the heart of California’s Central Coast, one of the world’s most exciting wine regions.
This festival is produced by PasoGaragiste.com, the first and only multi-media site dedicated to the community of emerging underground winemakers.
Featuring high-quality, cutting-edge, small production wineries that produce fewer than 1,200 cases a year, this first-of-its-kind festival brings together many of the best and most innovative winemakers in California, pouring their hard-to-find wines and sharing their knowledge with passionate wine consumers. Already, over twenty-five of the region’s hottest emerging winemakers, including Alta Colina, Caliza, Jalama and Vines on the Marycrest, have signed on to share their wines at the festival.
The Central Coast garagistes are one of the best-kept secrets in the wine world and their excellent wines can be almost impossible to find — unless you know the right people and places to go,” said PasoGaragiste.com Co-founder Stewart McLennan. “The Paso Garagiste Festival will have forty of them, gathered in one place for the first time ever. The festival is the place for passionate wine consumers to come face-to-face, wine glass-to-bottle, with the undiscovered future rock stars of the wine world.”