Garagiste Winemakers Rock Paso at Sold Out Festival

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Vines on the Marycrest Wins First Annual “Spirit of Garagiste” Award; Over 40 Artisan Winemakers Pour

Paso Robles, CA (PRWEB) November 21, 2011

Paso Garagiste announced today that Victor Abascal of Vines on the Marycrest has won the first annual “Spirit of Garagiste” Award presented as part of the inaugural Paso Garagiste Festival on November 12th. The award is dedicated to a winemaker who best exemplifies the do-whatever-it-takes spirit of the small-lot winemaker (or garagiste*), while also producing excellent wines. The sold-out festival featured over 40 high-quality, cutting-edge, small production wineries that produce fewer than 1,200 cases a year – all pouring at the Windfall Farms Stallion Barn for over 700 attendees from across the US.

Dwarf Grapes for Half Bottles???

A Pixie grapevine can be grown in a coffee cup

Really big things may come from Pixie, a very small grape recently released by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

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A decade of Eroica

A decade of Eroica Eroica, the international Riesling collaboration between Ernst Loosen of the Mosel and Chateau Ste. Michelle of Woodinville, Wash., is a decade old.The first vintage was 1999, back when the idea of a $20 Riesling was nothing short of outrageous and the great white variety was lost amid the ocean of Chardonnay.Chardonnay is still king in the United States, but the dynamics have changed, in no small part because of Eroica and Ste. Michelle’s dedication to Riesling, which is now the No. 1 wine grape in Washington.Below are three videos. The first is a retrospective put together by Ste. Michelle. The second and third are interviews Wine Press Northwest conducted with Ernst Loosen and Ste. Michelles Bob Bertheau.

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