Garage Wine Co Vigno Dry-farmed Old Vines of Cariñán 2017
  • Red Wine
  • Carignan
  • Sustainable
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • 750ml
  • 14% alc./vol

Garage Wine Co Vigno Dry-farmed Old Vines of Cariñán 2017

Chile
$59.00per bottle ($354.00per case)
6 bottles per case
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Floral & Spicy

Garage Wine Co was literally started in a garage in 2001, by Etobicoke expat Derek Mossman and his wife Pilar Miranda. Since then, the dynamic duo have chosen to revive old vineyards in marginalized Chilean communities. They work mostly in the regions of Maule and Itata where they make highly coveted wines.

Vigno stands for Viñadores de Carignan and is an association of producers whose goal is to create an appellation of origin for wines made from old Carignan vines that have been dry-farmed and bush-trained in the Maule Secano area. It has spice- and mineral-accented aromas of red and blue fruit joined by slowly emerging violet and rhubarb notes. Sappy and concentrated but lithe as well, offering energetic black raspberry, spicecake and floral pastille flavours and a bracing, refreshingly bitter suggestion of blood orange that adds bite to the back half. Finishes smooth, sweet and extremely long, with resonating floral and spice notes and supple tannins adding shape and gentle grip.

Wines made from Carignan are ideal with richer poultry dishes such as turkey or duck, roasted pork, or even a meaty beef brisket.

This product is part of the LCBO July Classics program. It may take approximately 3-4 weeks to be delivered from its release date.

About the Winery

Garage Wine Co.

Garage Wine was literally started in a garage in 2001, by Etobicoke expat Derek Mossman and his wife Pilar Miranda. Since then, the dynamic duo handcraft wines from a series of individual vineyards located in the Maule and Itata Valleys, in the south of Santiago, Chile.

Garage Wine Co makes wines from a series of individual parcels, small lots / bottlings of 8-22 barrels that include a series of dry-farmed field-blends of Carignan, Garnacha, Monastrell, País, Cinsault and Cab Franc grown on pre-phylloxera rootstock with small farmers in the Maule and Itata. Each wine is from a 1-2 hectare parcel in a different place.

Over the years working in the community they have raised a veritable posse of vineyard hands whose skills are working the vineyards the old way / the traditional way– originario. The vineyards are on the old coastal range of mountains closer to the Pacific and have granitic soils with cracks for roots to get deep down into.

When GWCo. speaks of the provenance of these wines they mean more than just the geological terroir. Derek and Pilar think the farming practices that have evolved over generations have as much to do with the wines’ personalities as the soils. All the wines are made by hand with native yeasts in small tanks, punched down manually and pressed out in a small basket press. GWCo is still very much a DIY operation and we still tow much of the crop back to the winery in trailers behind trusty pickup trucks 2,000 kilos at a time.

Press Reviews

Robert Parker

96 points

I find the 2017 Vigno from Garage Wine Co. to be quite wild with notes of iron, wild flowers and lots of pollen, balsamic and expressive and in a way somewhat similar to the one from De Martino; I tasted 12 Vigno bottlings together, which made for a very interesting comparison. This comes from Truquilemu, one of the coolest places in Maule, but 2017 was a warm year and also marked by brutal wildfires. The palate is sharp and has marked granite character and very good freshness. A great effort for the adverse conditions of the year! 1,500 bottle were filled in January 2019.