Garage Wine Co

Garage Wine began quite literally in Pilar and Derek’s garage. GWCo 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: Bagual, Caliboro, Coelemu, Guarilihue, Loncomilla, Portezuelo, Puico, Ranquil, Sauzal, Truquilemu. 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. They cultivate vineyards with small vigneron partners who work with horse and plough as his family has done for generations. Some of the parcels, where the next generation moved to the city, they have opted to rent long-term creating more work for the local hands who do want to stay on the farm.