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Scenes from the 2025 Garagiste Pageant


It’s splendid. It has nice fruit. It’s actually uncommon, this… It’s the terroir that provides you this. I’m so blissful… It’s so good. I might drink it proper now. ~ Denise Capbern-Gasqueton, aged proprietor of a Saint-Estèphe property in Bordeaux, France—with a twinkle in her eyes.

So a lot of you’ve gotten already taken benefit of this unprecedented sale over the previous three days—thanks! However in case you continue to won’t have identified: As introduced in my final publication posting 4 days in the past, at present would be the final day to make the most of 40% financial savings on combined half-cases and combined full-cases of my 2022 Vino Tinto Rustico and my 2024 Vermentino—two wines that only recently have collectively gathered 99-point and 95-point designations, two Better of Class awards, one Finest Micro Vineyard award, two Double-Gold Medals, one Platinum Medal, and three Gold Medals. That’s loopy!

Go to www.tinyvineyards.com earlier than midnight tonight if you’d like a chunk of this.

The primary time we participated in a Garagiste Pageant was about two years in the past. Our first industrial classic had simply been bottled and wasn’t actually prepared for prime time. We had no recreation but in easy methods to market our wines, and we got here off just like the newbies we had been after we talked about them. However we had been dying to place them in entrance of oldsters we didn’t know and see if we might get an unvarnished appraisal on our first skilled effort that had already taken us practically two years to supply. I wrote all about it right here, and I defined the libertarian idea of “Garagiste.” Return and browse that posting of the publication. It’s revealing.

Yesterday, we participated in one other Garagiste Pageant, for most of the identical causes. Solely now we’ve received quite a lot of grape stains underneath our fingernails and we’re much more savvy in regards to the how and why of what we’re doing. And we’ve received these two breakout wines described above that, as soon as once more, we would like as a lot suggestions on as potential earlier than we current them to the shopping for public. Right here’s a fast have a look at our day:

Sonoma Veterans Memorial Corridor was as soon as once more the venue for Garagiste.

Inside, a couple of hundred wine aficionados, business hucksters, and wannabes tasted the wares of 40 or so boutique winemakers.

Now a seasoned outdated professional in any respect of this, Deb stands prepared at our desk because the doorways are about to open.

Then we get all the way down to the enterprise of describing alchemy.

Deb continuously attracts them in and her smiling pitches look an entire lot extra enjoyable than my mansplaining.

Halfway via the afternoon I get pulled apart for a reside and feisty wine interview with Sonoma’s personal KSVY. Good enjoyable!

We auctioned off one among solely six remaining magnum bottles of our utterly sold-out 2021 Eclipse Malbec. The eventual successful bid of $150 got here from Mario and Veronica Rubio, with the proceeds going to the Garagiste Scholarship Fund at Cal Poly. A feel-good second throughout.

And I don’t assume it might be overstating it to say that our 2022 Vino Tinto Rustico and 2024 Vermentino had been highlights of the present. Of us saved coming as much as our desk saying that somebody had instructed them we had a few good wines they need to come style.

True, unfiltered word-of-mouth!

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