Garagistes

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The garagistes refers to a group of innovative winemakers in Bordeaux. They emerged in the mid 1990’s in reaction to the traditional style of red Bordeaux wine, which is highly tannic and requires long ageing in the bottle. The garagistes developed a style more consistent with international wine norms. For reds, this means "bigger, bolder, fruitier wines with sometimes a higher alcohol content." For white wines the new style is a stronger oak taste with some residual sugar.

The influential wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. tends to give the wines produced by the garagistes marks in the high 90s.

[edit] See also

• French Wine
• Globalization of wine

[edit] Source

• Taber, George M. Judgment of Paris: California vs France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine. NY: Scribner, 2005.