The Wine Garage

The Wine Garage has upwards of 200 different wines available, with a current inventory of over 3,000 bottles. Todd Miller is the wine buyer. He seeks out and personally visits small wineries throughout California (usually in rural, less-traveled areas such as Lodi, Paso Robles, Amador and Mendocino) whose wines are not commercially available outside their own areas. Miller then negotiates a price directly with the vintner and delivers the merchandise himself to the Calistoga shop. A handful of small wineries in Napa and Sonoma Counties are also represented, along with wines from New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Spain, and South Africa. Miller enjoys hunting for unusual and lesser-known limited-production wines: "I love scouting for these small and hand-crafted lots of wine," Miller explains, "and our customers get to share in these discoveries. They'll ask about labels they've never seen before-and won't see anywhere else at a wine store in northern California!"