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Local Event
Cost: $79 - $140
We are thrilled to be bringing the 10th Anniversary Garagiste Festival back to downtown Paso Robles. Discover and taste amazing, cutting edge wines from over 50 high-quality, micro-production, commercial winemakers.
Most of these excellent, but hard-to-find, artisans do not have tasting rooms, and can’t be found on “wine country” maps. Many sell out their wines quickly to their allocation lists. The Garagiste Festival gives you the opportunity to get in on the ground floor and meet these winemakers in person as they share their wines and their stories.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to taste rare, hard-to-find, world-class wines and meet the artisans who create them. You are going to love what you taste!
11:00am–8:30pm VIP All-Day — $140 - Check-in starts at 10:30am
1–5pm Early Access — $99
2–5pm Grand Tasting — $79
5:30-8:30pm Rockin’ After-Party — $25
11:00am-12:30pm
The day begins by bringing back one of the most popular features of the Garagiste Festivals, it’s our engaging, educational and unique winemaker panel and tasting seminar.
The seminar is only available as part of the VIP All-Day and Weekend Pass tickets, which also includes a Wine Country Box Lunch* from local favorite Jeffrys BBQ, early access to the Grand Tasting (at 1pm) and entry into the After Party.
Tablas Creek Vineyard, founded in 1989 by the Perrin and Haas families in what would become the Paso Robles Adelaida District, has been a pioneer in many ways, from their early embrace of dry farming to their dedication to the Rhone Rangers category to their recent first-in-the-world Regenerative Organic Certification.
But their most lasting legacy may be the 19 different grape varieties that they imported into the United States and made available to the broader community through their grapevine nursery. These included better-known grapes like Grenache, Syrah, and Viognier, but also nine varieties never planted before in the United States: Grenache Blanc, Counoise, Vermentino, Picpoul Blanc, Clairette Blanche, Terret Noir, Picardan, Muscardin, and Bourboulenc.
In this seminar, Tablas Creek’s second generation proprietor Jason Haas will take you through Tablas Creek’s journey from idea between friends to the search for the spot to the creation of the grapevine nursery, vineyard, and winery. He’ll taste some of their rarest varietal bottlings as well as the new vintage of the Esprit de Tablas, and share why he’s even more excited for the vineyard’s next three decades.
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