Garagistes

A group emerged in the mid-1990s in reaction to the traditional style of red Bordeaux wine, which is highly tannic and requires long ageing in the bottle to become drinkable.

[5] Founded in 1989 on a 1 hectare plot in Saint-Émilion, with limited funds for equipment, much work was done primitively by hands and feet in their garage, with high detail labour resulting in low output yields defining the methods of the model.

[7] The terms "Vins du garage" and "Garagistes" have been attributed to French writers Nicholas Baby[2] and Michel Bettane.

Steven Spurrier commented further, "the belief that ridiculously low yields make better wine has finally been exploded by the quality of [the abundant] 2004, as it should have been by 2000, 1996 and 1990.

It lists some 127 wineries with annual production of 1,000 or fewer cases in Paso's home county, San Luis Obispo (SLO).

Most "garage wineries" produce small lots of limited production wines.
Many notable garagiste wines come from the Bordeaux wine regions of Saint-Émilion (pictured) and Pomerol.
Some of the criticism for vins de garage is that with their high prices and limited production, they appear to be made more for wine collectors rather than for wine drinkers.