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Date Posted: 21:44:19 07/17/11 Sun
Author: Debbie S.
Subject: Garagistas!
In reply to: AnnW 's message, "Re: Pasogaragiste blog update" on 14:39:26 07/17/11 Sun

Stewart,

I too have been enjoying reading the blogs. I am excited for you and hope for the success of the "First" Pasogaragiste Festival. Winemaking is a great passion of yours and this venue seems right up your alley! Great to see that Mr. Rowe will be there too! I bet you, and everyone there, will have a blast!

As a kid growing up in Southeast Kansas, aka "The Little Balkans" due to the fact that so many immigrants brought to work the mines and railroads were from that area of Europe as well as from Italy and France, about all the wine and beer I knew about was homemade by garagistes, or more commonly by garagistas. Many of the immigrants had brought their family recipes for making wine and preferred that to store bought. Sadly, many of those recipes have been lost in time.

However, Papa Joe (everybody called him "Papa", he was very powerful, politically) and many of the Italians made something we always referred to as "dago red". The word "dago" was NOT used to be disrespectful at all, it is just what the wines were called and even the Italians refereed to them that way. Papa Joe had his own vines and I think some were called Barbera (always made me think of Hanna Barbera) I can't remember any others. The French over in Camp 50 made some wines too, but the Italians seemed to be more prolific winemakers and more fond of sharing. They often used big glass jugs and not bottles, like the French did.

I don't know what today would be the closest to the "dago red" wines that I remember. I have to be honest, I am not much of a wine connoisseur or drinker. I have tried a variety but always go back to my mainstays, Sangria or Lambrusco. Or, don't cringe, Stewart, wine coolers aka alcopops. I have always wondered what would be the closest thing today to Papa Joe's dago red.

Debbie S.

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[> [> [> Port or Brandy -- Debbie S., 21:56:23 07/17/11 Sun

Or I prefer port or brandy but really don't know if people actually consider brandy a wine?

Yes, my alcohol ignorance is coming through . . . that is why I rarely talk on the topic. I only know what I like. I do know that when I studied in France and traveled in Italy, I preferred the Italian wines that I tried over the French but wasn't keen on "vino frizzante", I assume it was champagne?

Debbie S.


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