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Vin de garage

French designation (also Vin de salon) for garage wine; see there.

A term created in the 1990s, particularly in Saint-Émilion (Bordeaux) in France, for special wines (French vin de garage or vin de salon) that are produced in very small quantities, often just a few hundred cases or a few thousand bottles. These wineries are also referred to here as "garagiste" or "micro-château", although not all of them are necessarily small. The term "garage wine" is not to be understood literally. It is derived from the computer industry, where small companies (such as Apple, Microsoft, INTEL, Cisco, Google) manufactured high-quality, innovative products in simply equipped...

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