It's Garagiste Season!
And
no, we don't mean you should put on your orange vest, pull the 12 gauge
off the wall and tiptoe into the hills of Paso like Elmer Fudd.
You
should, however, be sure to hightail it down to the first Garagiste
mini-event of 2012 which will be taking place this week at 15c Wine Bar in Templeton, CA. Here's the full press release:
Paso Robles, CA
- The Garagiste Festival, dedicated to promoting artisan winemakers,
and 15c Wine Shop & Bar, one of the Central Coast's most influential
tasting rooms, are joining forces to present garagiste tasting
mini-events during Paso Robles Wine Festival weekend. The events will
feature the wines of small-lot local artisan producers, including AmByth
Estate, Alta Colina, Clesi, Giornata and Hensen. A portion of the
proceeds will go to Garagiste Events, a non-profit dedicated to furthering the education of future winemakers and those training for employment within the wine industry.
"Thanks
in part to the Garagiste Festival, the profile of these remarkable
artisan winemakers is growing," said Ali Rush Carscaden, proprietor of
15c. "At 15c, we have long supported these 'gems' of the wine world and
are pleased to join with the Garagiste Festival to inaugurate its 2012
mini-event series with these special tastings, and to provide consumers
with a unique opportunity to meet these passionate winemakers and their
wines."
15c's Garagiste
Festival Satellite Tasting Room will be open during Paso's Wine Festival
weekend May 18th - May 19th from 11:00 am - 9:00 pm. A fifteen-dollar
door fee provides consumers with tastings of two wines each from five
different producers who poured at 2011's Garagiste Festival. In
addition, a special 'Meet the Small Production Winemakers' event will
take place on Saturday, May 19th from 5:30-7:30pm.
The
garagiste tastings at 15c are the first in a series of Garagiste
Festival mini-events to be held in tasting rooms, wine shops and art
galleries from Paso Robles to Southern California leading up to the
second annual Garagiste Festival which is scheduled for November 10th at Windfall Farm s in Paso Robles.
"The
Garagiste Festival is pleased to join with Ali and her team to further
raise awareness of the amazing quality of these unique, small lot
winemakers," said Garagiste Festival Co-Founder Stewart
McLennan. "Known locally for it's industry-friendly atmosphere and
extensive wine selections, 15c has become the go-to resource for
consumers wishing to expand their palate - and a home-away-from-home for
many of the area's best garagiste winemakers."
The
Garagiste Festival showcases high-quality, cutting-edge, small
production wineries that produce fewer than 1,200 cases a year. 2011's
sold-out festival at Windfall Farms presented 45 outstanding artisan
winemakers to over 700 passionate wine consumers and members of the
trade, raising the profiles of many of the winemakers nationally for the
first time. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale for the 2012 festival
in mid June.
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