Vin de salon

French name (also Vin de garage) 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 often only produced in small quantities of 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) have been producing high-quality, innovative products in simply equipped premises and even in garages since the 1970s.

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