Chateau Garage ?

It means that a man's garage is his castle!!

Uh, actually, it means, I believe, garage-made wine. Either home-made wine or a very very small winery.

Cheers, Dana

Ed Rasimus wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Can't buy that one Ed. A true St. Emilion has to have heritage in addtion to the accident of birth in a friendly commune. St Emilion more so than other Bordeaux appelations prides itself on the correct expression of the region. One has their wines adjudge Cru classe through a very thourough system of tests, flunk at any stage and you do not get cru status for that year. that is not to say that there can't be incredible range from year to year, but the heritage is still there, tradition in the glass along with the juice.

You wine people, trying to slip your secular humanism on us unsuspecting upstanding testament-quoting patriots. What kind of perversion are you pushing anyway talking about wine for a gay raj. What do I care where some turbaned guy sticks his you know what where?

Oh its garage. Never mind!

Emilie Flatella as screamed to

Seriously, the "garage wine" phenomonum had multiple points of origon.

1. Production of Sassicaia from Marchesi di Incisa a relative of Piero Antinori--it was the first "super-tuscan"
2. The influence of M.DeGrazia marketing barrique wines both in Tuscany and Piemonte
3. The Advocacy of Robert Parker Jr. for these wines and the bandwagon effect on Lo Casio of Wine Bow and the Wine Spectator.
4. The introduction of "garage wines" in Bordeaux starting with the 1982 vintage.
5. The marketing of Meritage wines in California and the extension of the mailing list phenomena there by rich people who wanted their names on labels. From Hanzell, Stony Hill and Joseph Swan at the start, anyone who could rub two dimes together started making "cult" wines available only in restaurants and by the mail.
6. Growth of an audience who primarily were interested in drinking and hoarding "points" and regulations in the US who make it a crime and adventure to obtain these wines.
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Use your underworked brain>