1.   Actually, most garage wines are made as sidelines by owners of traditional chateaus.

2.   But most of the garage wines, like Valandraud, La Mondotte and La Gomerie, are actually very good.

3.   Even more in demand are some of the Bordeaux cult wines, often called garage wines because some of them are made not in chateaus but in small wineries.

4.   Not unexpectedly, in a hidebound region like Bordeaux, the garage wines have provoked considerable controversy.

5.   Sometimes the traditional wines are better than the garage wines.

6.   The garage wines have only dramatized it.

7.   The garagistes wines are called vins de garage, or garage wines, and the most prized are selling for more than Petrus.

8.   There is a constant stream of new products, like blush wines and fruit-flavored wines and cult wines and garage wines and plastic corks and clever labels.