Show Introduction with Executive Producer & Co-Host Andy Harris

We’ve live today from the Ava Hotel Paso Robles, Curio Collection by Hilton, the host hotel for the 16th Garagiste Wine Festival. We’re highlighting the Festival and meeting many of the participants. “America’s Best Wine Festival, the Garagiste Wine Festival, returns to its birthplace in Paso Robles this Friday, November 6th and Saturday, November 7th with new venues, new digs, new winemakers, and a tasting seminar that explores the rise of Italian grape varieties in California. More than 50 winemakers—including OG’s (Original Garagistes) and the next generation of garagiste producers—will pour 200+ premium wines from across Paso Robles 11 AVAs, and the Central Coast.” “Dubbed “tasting nirvana,” “strange and wondrous,” and “one not to miss” by the LA Times and the festival that delivers “the WOW factor” by Paso Robles Daily News, the Garagiste Festival showcases under-the-radar, innovative, commercial winemakers who handcraft 1,500 cases of wine, or less. It is the only wine festival that exclusively features high-quality wines from commercial California ‘garagiste**’ winemakers, and, unlike other festivals, the wines are poured by the winemakers/owners themselves, offering a rare opportunity to interact with the creative forces behind the wines, while making brand new wine discoveries.” All of this and heaping helpings of extra deliciousness on this week’s not-to-miss show!