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Playing With Food

Making Wine in the Garage?

By Fr. Ian Delinger
Published January 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM PST
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The vibe on the first night of the Garagiste Festival in Atascadero
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The vibe on the first night of the Garagiste Festival in Atascadero
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Taylor Matheson, winemaker at Cutbow Winery, showing off his outdoorsy labels on his 2022 Grenache.
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Taylor Matheson, winemaker at Cutbow Winery, showing off his outdoorsy labels on his 2022 Grenache.
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The crowd at the first night of the Garagiste Festival just kept growing.
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The crowd at the first night of the Garagiste Festival just kept growing.
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These bottles indicate that earnestness and seriousness of the tastings!
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These bottles indicate that earnestness and seriousness of the tastings!
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Doug Minnick and Stewart McLennan, co-founders of the Garagiste Festival
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Doug Minnick and Stewart McLennan, co-founders of the Garagiste Festival
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Diego & Cc Aguerre, winemakers and owners of Loom Wines in Templeton
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Diego & Cc Aguerre, winemakers and owners of Loom Wines in Templeton
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Colby and Fio Derodeff, winemakers and owners of Rockbound Cellars.
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Colby and Fio Derodeff, winemakers and owners of Rockbound Cellars.
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The Saturday event in Paso Robles featured many more wineries and many more discerning patrons!
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The Saturday event in Paso Robles featured many more wineries and many more discerning patrons!
Fr. Ian Delinger

Are you making wine in your garage? Then you may be considered “garagsiste”. But instead of in being a pejorative term, the Garagiste Festival in North San Luis Obispo County celebrates wines from wineries that produce fewer than 1,500 cases annually. (And they aren’t really made in the garage!)

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Fr. Ian Delinger
Fr. Ian Delinger currently serves as Rector at St Stephen's Episcopal Church in San Luis Obispo. He was born on the Central Coast, and was raised in both rural western Nebraska and on the Central Coast. He studied Chemistry at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Then, he moved to the Silicon Valley where he was as a project manager in a consulting firm which specializes in environmental, health and safety issues for the semiconductor manufacturing industry and other high technology industries, followed by a couple of stints in corporate events management and marketing.
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