Garage wine

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Garage wines are wines that are produced with the highest quality standards by very small wineries. Typically, garage wines are characterized by very low hectare yields, the highest possible maturity of the grapes, strong concentration of the must and extreme use of new barrique barrels . The wines follow an international style rather than the goal of the best possible typicity and expression of the terroir . Usually the grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot are processed.

Garage wines are currently cult in the world of wine connoisseurs and gourmets. Due to the low production quantities, they almost never come on the market. You can find them on the wine lists of gourmet restaurants. At auctions they are often sold for 1,000 euros per bottle or even more. Celebrities and the rich of this world started the trend in the 90s. They bought small wineries of often only 2 hectares and were inspired by the ambition to produce award-winning wines there. In no time at all, the bottles have become objects of desire for wealthy collectors and speculators.

The Napa Valley in California and the Bordelais in France argue over who produced the first garage wines. The dispute also includes the strange naming. From the garage shops , i.e. those small, highly creative workshops from the 1970s and 80s and the like. a. the software giant Microsoft and Intel emerged, the Californians derive the name. In France, when it comes to vin de garage , the fact that the annual production of micro-chateaux , as the small wineries are also called, would easily fit into a garage with a few hundred or thousand bottles.

Well-known French garage wines are:

Similarly rare and expensive, but not garage wines, are “micro- cuvées ” produced in very small quantities for much larger goods, for example