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Paso Robles winemakers to pour at Garagiste Festival: Urban Exposure 

Garagiste urban exposure–The Garagiste Festival: Urban Exposure returns to The Wiltern theater in Los Angeles on July 9. Over 60 artisan ‘garagiste*’ winemakers from across California, including Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez and SLO counties; Napa and Sonoma counties, and Paso Robles will pour over 200 wines. Over 30-percent of the wineries are participating in the Los Angeles festival for the first time.

Garagiste is a term originally used in the Bordeaux region of France to denigrate renegade small-lot wine makers, sometimes working in their “garages” (anything considered not a chateau), who refused to follow the “rules,” and is now a full-fledged movement.

Urban Exposure also presents the LA premiere of one of its signature comparison tasting seminars, “Tasting the Winemaker’s Spice Rack,” on the stage of The Wiltern. Rendarrio Vineyards owner and winemaker Ryan Render and Michael Larner, winemaker and owner of the renowned Larner Vineyard, will use side-by-side comparisons to help wine consumers understand, through their taste buds, how different oak treatments – from type to region to toast – can affect the finished product and change the profile of a single wine.

Garagiste Festivals offer wine lovers their only opportunity to taste so many small-production, hard-to-find wines, from so many regions, all in one place – over 60-percent of Urban Exposure winemakers are without a tasting room.

 

 

“From Paso Robles to Santa Ynez to the Bay Area, we have helped thousands of wine lovers discover more than 1,500 cutting edge wines crafted by the most passionate, under-the-radar micro-production winemakers in the state,” said Garagiste Festivals Co-founder Doug Minnick. “We are super-excited to be bringing more than 60 of these winemakers back to LA at this spectacular venue. You’ll have a hard time finding most of these wines anywhere else, and certainly not in any supermarket, but we make it easy. If you like wine at any level, whether you’re a novice or an expert – this event is like Nirvana. The place, not the band.”

 

The Garagiste Wine Festival: Urban Exposure will take place from 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at The Wiltern, which is considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States. Located at Wilshire and Western (3780 Wilshire Boulevard) Los Angeles, it is easily accessible by the Metro Purple Line train which stops at the Wilshire and Western station.

Among the over 60 winemakers already scheduled to pour are:

  • Alma Fria Winery
  • Alma Sol Winery
  • Archium Cellars
  • Ascension Cellars
  • Bevela Wines
  • Big Tar Wines
  • Brian Benson Cellars
  • Brophy Clark Cellars
  • Burning Bench Cellars
  • Caldera Cuvee
  • Caliza Winery
  • The Central Coast Group Project
  • Chene Wines
  • Cholame Vineyards
  • Cloak & Dagger Wines
  • Cordon Wines
  • Coruce Vineyards
  • Cowan Cellars
  • Dreamcote Wines
  • El Lugar Wines
  • Golden Star Vineyards
  • Graef Wines
  • Hoi Polloi Winery
  • Hoyt Family Vineyards
  • JP3 Wines
  • Kaleidos Winery
  • Larner Vineyards
  • Marin’s Vineyard
  • MCV Wines
  • Mystic Hills Vineyard
  • On Your Left Wines
  • Pagter Bros. Winery
  • Per Cazo Cellars
  • Powell Mountain Cellars
  • Prizm Winery
  • Pulchella Winery
  • Ranchita Canyon
  • Rendarrio Vineyards
  • Ryan Cochrane Wines
  • Starfield Vineyards
  • Tercero Wines
  • The Farm Winery
  • Tierra y Vino
  • Tlo Wines
  • Trail Marker Wine Co.
  • Turiya Wines,
  • TW Fermentation Co.
  • Two Shepherds, Vinemark Cellars
  • Vines on the Marycrest
  • Weatherborne
  • West of Temperance
  • Zinke Wine Co.

 

To preserve an intimate experience for consumers with one-on-one interaction with winemakers, tickets are very limited for the Garagiste Festivals and always sell out. Tickets are available at garagistefestival.com.

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