The Garagiste Festival

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 5 Reds: 2007 Grenache, 2007 Petite Sirah, 2007 Syrah, 2008 Grenache and 2008 Pangaea (crazy blend).. Q. Tell us something about Symbiosis. A. Symbiosis Wines is tiny. I do everything from choosing grapes and barrels, to punching down, to labwork, to label [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 2008 La Filice “Convivio”, (a Proprietary red wine blend) and 2007 La Filice Petite Sirah.  Q. Tell us something about La Filice Winery. A. Our beginning’s were as La Forza Winery, making wine in a Garage located in Gilroy. La Filice Winery [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 3 different Pinots.  2008 Carlson Talley Vineyards “The Wedge”, 2008 Carlson Pinot Noir Le Bon climat Vineyard and 2008 Carlson Pinot Noir Santa Rita Hills, Las Hermanas Vineyard. Q. Tell us something about Carlson Wines. A.  I am fortunate to [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We will be pouring our 2009 Central Coast Syrah (Releasing 1st at Garagiste!), 2009 Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay, 2008 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon and two wines from our Town Crier label, the 2010 Sauvignon Blanc and 2008 Syrah. Q. Tell us something about Rendarrio. [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. PORT, PORT & MORE PORT! Specifically our 2008 Ruby Port, 2007 Violeta Port, Tawny Port, Angelica Port, Noel Port. Q. Tell us something about Paso Port. A. PasoPort is a small family-owned winery dedicated to producing fine, fortified dessert wine. PasoPorts’ wine program focuses on [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 2009 Inference – White Rhone blend from Caliza Vineyard, 70% Roussanne, 30% Viognier (88 pts-Parker); 2010 Interruption – White Rhone blend from Alta Colina Vineyard. 44% Roussanne, 40% Viognier, 16% Marsanne. (Not yet rated); 2008 Implication – 72% Syrah, 28% [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We will be pouring 2008 The Assassin Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa), 2009 Smoke & Mirrors Pinot Noir (Sta. Rita Hills), 2009 Skull & Bones Zinfandel (Paso Robles) and possibly 2009 Illuminatus Sangiovese (Santa Barbara County) – The Conspirator hasn’t made a final decision about the [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 2009 Carignane from the Dante Dusi Vineyard, the 2009 Syrah from Caterinas Vineyard, 2009 Sabroso Rojo (50% Tempranillo/50% Cabernet Sauvignon), NV Syrah, 2009 Zinfandel and 2007 Zinfandel Port HauteHauteHaute. Q. Tell us something about J Dusi Wines? A. J Dusi [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 2010 Chrome (Grenache Blanc/Viognier) La Vista Vineyard, Paso Robles; 2010 Viognier La Vista Vineyard Paso Robles and 2009 Carignan Old Vines Mendocino County Q. Tell us something about Ranchero Cellars? A. Ranchero Cellars pays homage to the spur-jangling vaqueros of the [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 2010 Clementina Viognier, 2010 Rosebud Syrah Rose, 2010 Gravitas Grenache, 2010 “Francisco’s” Syrah and a sneak preview of Sonja’s 2010 Suds Rosebud Syrah Rose. Q. Tell us something about Casa Dumetz? A. Casa Dumetz-Malibu started in 2004 with a patch [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 2006 SHIRAZ, 2007 TEMPRANILLO, 2007 PETITE SIRAH, 2008 GYPSY NOIR, 2009 GRENACHE (1st release, bottled in August) &….URSA MAJOR, LOT#1 (port-style ZINFANDEL). A blend from near equal part 2005, 2006 & 2008 vintages, bottled in December 2009. It has been bottled [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We will be pouring our 2006 Chardonnay, 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2007 The Rustic One (red blend), 2005 Zinfandel, and our 2000 Late Harvest Zinfandel. Q. Tell us something about Cayucos Cellars? A. Deep in the hills of Cayucos, there lies an old dairy barn, [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring 2008 KATIN Grenache Central Coast, 2008 KATIN Syrah Paso Robles, 2008 ARADA “Las Ramblas Blanca” Central Coast, 2009 KATIN Viognier Paso Robles and 2010 KATIN Roussanne Paso Robles. Q. Tell us something about JK Wine Company? A. JK WINE COMPANY, [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring my 2009 “Le Pitchoun” Grenache blend, 2009 “Les Origines” Red Rhone Blend and 2009 “Le Tigre” Red Rhone Blend. Q. Tell us something about your winery? A. Thomas Alexander Winery is an small production (500 cases total) boutique winery specializing [...]

The reason we’re interested in this former British soul singer is her name. Winehouse. Forget Amy. Winehouse. Problem was: There was too much of it – in her. She is dead by the way. July 23rd. Not from wine. From three bottles of vodka. They were resting at her bedside. She resting on top. Not [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. I will be pouring my 2008 Aaron Petite Sirah, my 2007 Swell Petite Sirah (second label) and my 2010 Swell Petite Sirah Rose. Q. Tell us something about Aaron Wines? A. Aaron is a microscopic wine producer located in Paso Robles that focuses on [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We will be pouring 2010 Tres Blanc, white Rhone wine, 2009 Epi Telos, Red Rhone wine and 2009 Confluent, our Bordeaux blend. Q. Tell us something about Per Cazo? A. Per Cazo is the derivation of the Italian of “By Chance” which is how [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We will be pouring our 2004 Merlot, 2005 Meritage (50% Cabernet Sauvignon/50% Merlot), 2006 Meritage (67% Cabernet Sauvignon/33% Merlot), 2007 Meritage (57% Cabernet Sauvignon/29% Merlot/14% Cabernet Franc), 2008 Petit Verdot and a barrel sample of our 2009 Late Harvest Merlot. Q. How did St. [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We will be pouring 2008 Piedrasassi Rim Rock Vineyard Syrah (San Luis Obispo County), 2008 Piedrasassi Syrah (Central Coast) and the 2009 Piedrasassi White Wine (Santa Ynez Valley). Q. Tell us about Piedrasassi. A. Piedrasassi is the family winery of Sashi Moorman, Melissa Sorongon, [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We will be pouring our 2009 Zinfandel, 2009 Syrah and 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon. Q.Tell us about Brochelle. A. Established in 1998 by Brock and Michelle Waterman, Brochelle is a tiny winery located on a Westside hilltop in Paso Robles. We craft wines that are [...]

Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2007 Merlot, 2010 Rose, and, possibly the freshly bottled 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2009 Merlot, and 2009 Primitivo. Q. How did you get started making wine? What did you do before making wine? A. We came to Paso Robles in 2002 [...]

Here’s another in or series of short conversations with the folks who will be pouring at the Gargiste Festival. Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. We figured “what the hell, let’s just do it” and we’re going to pour 10 estate wines, all with zero added sulfites: single varietal 2010 [...]

Here’s another in or series of short conversations with the folks who will be pouring at the Gargiste Festival. Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. 2005 Red Zeppelin Syrah, Bear Valley Vineyard, Monterey 2008 Pink Zeppelin Dry Rose, Paso Robles 2009 Stillman “Death to the Infidel Zinfandel” Monterey and Paso [...]

Here’s another in or series of short conversations with the folks who will be pouring at the Gargiste Festival Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. 2005 STANGER Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Library Reserve, 2006 STANGER Vineyards Syrah Library Reserve, 2007 STANGER Vineyards Tempranillo Library Reserve, 2007 STANGER Vineyards BENCH cuvee Q.Tell [...]

Since every winemaker’s story is as different as the way they make wine, we wanted to share their insights and knowledge about not only the process but the business of winemaking. Here’s what Nick Elliott had to say: Q. What will you be pouring at The Garagiste Festival? A. 2009 Buxom Syrah, 2009 Euphoric Grenache, [...]

I’m shooting a video on Victor Abascal, winemaker and owner of Vines on the Marycrest, Paso Robles. That video will be on this website soon. So. About that long, long, long road. Throughout the year Victor has a split personality. (Ask anybody.) Three days a week he physically is in the Los Angeles pocket of [...]

… just busy. I know, I know, it’s been two months since our last blog post, but in spite of that, I assure you that we are NOT “Trainwrecks” (see here at :59) except in the sense that we ARE still kickin’ ass. And a few other lines – we’ll let you figure out which [...]

          Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone now following us on Twitter or Facebook and to those excellent wineries who are already on board. We are extremely excited to help you share your wines with the larger public. Also, I must apologize for referring to Rosé as a varietal in my [...]

Partner Dan is currently traveling in the Rhone. We intended to post some reports and photos here, but haven’t heard from him since he got there. Gee, I wonder what he could be doing? Hey, Dan, take a break from drinking and let us know how you’re liking that French wine!

Thanks for all the call and e-mails, folks! Word got out about Paso Garagiste before we were completely ready, but hey, that’s a good thing. Nothing like a little pressure to make things happen. With room for just 40 wineries and 400 people, it’s looking like things will fill up fast. That’s another good thing [...]