Paso Robles winemakers to pour at Bay Area Garagiste Festival
Event takes place May 19 in Oakland
–In a little over two weeks, the first-ever Garagiste Wine Festival: Northern Exposure debuts in Oakland offering more than 100 different handcrafted wines from over 20 varietals poured by 32 hard-to-find, “garagiste” wineries from Northern California, Paso Robles and Santa Barbara County. The event takes place in conjunction with the Craft Beverage Expo, on Thursday, May 19 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Marriott City Center in Oakland, CA.
Dubbed “one of wine’s premier events…fun and exuberant…not to be missed” by the Los Angeles Times, this marks the first time The Garagiste Festival* has come to the bay area. Launched in Paso Robles in 2011, the Garagiste Festival was the first event to define, and shine a spotlight on, the American “Garagiste” wine movement.
Garagiste is a term originally used in the Bordeaux region of France to denigrate renegade small-lot wine makers, sometimes working in their garage, who refused to follow the “rules.” The non-profit Garagiste Festivals showcase high-quality, cutting-edge, small production wineries that produce fewer than 1,200 cases a year.
