Les Welcome
Whether by intent or tragic mis-typing, you’ve landed on the home of Les Garagistes winery collective. If you’re new to our dark cabal, a rich and heady stew of bad French grammar and subterranean winemaking awaits. But where to start? Here are a few suggestions:
- First, you might take a quick stroll through last year’s vintage escapades, accumulated over the two critical months of September 2009 and October 2009 (remember that the posts are presented with the earliest at the bottom of the page).
- Then, who are these Garagistes and where do they get off? And didn’t I hear they were dead?
- We sully the fine pages of Fine Cooking Magazine
- Winehenge: the movie. If that’s not enough to get you to click…
- A French oak barrel primer
- Red, Rex Sox (Yankees fans, be forewarned)
- Plastic capsules and why we switched to paper
- Lastly, mourn with the Moody Blues as they appear to lament the end of a Les Garagistes harvest.
Thanks much for stopping by. We’ve got fruit lined up for 2010 — with new varietals ensuring we’ll be making even more up as we go along — so another exciting vintage is just ahead. Hope you can join us for it, and let us know what you think of what we’ve cobbled together.
First Harvest on Saturday
This just in: the grower can’t pick the Merlot and Franc until Saturday, so that’s now our official first crush date.
That may mean we get Merlot that’s a little riper than we’d like, but the plus side is that the Cab Franc will probably be right where we want it by then. Besides, the Merlot will be within monkeying distance for blending purposes, and truth to tell, if we have to compromise on one of them, the Merlot’s the one.
But perhaps even better, it means a better party that’s easier to attend by all our wayward and familied Garagistes, and perhaps that trumps all.
Still, one day we’ll get to pick on the grapes’ schedule, not anyone else’s, and that will take us to another level entirely.
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