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        2017 – Lot 90
        • 2016 – Lot 80
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        2017 – Lot 91
        • 2016 – Lot 81
        • 2015 – Lot 71
        • 2014 – Lot 61
        • 2013 – Lot 51
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        2018 – Lot 102
        • 2017 – Lot 92
        • 2016 – Lot 82
        • 2015 – Lot 72
        • 2014 – Lot 62
        • * Late-bottled 2014 – Lot 54
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        2o2o – Lot 103
        • 2o19 – Lot 93
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        • 2016 – Lot 63
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        2018 Lot 84
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        Maule Valley
        Cabernet Sauvignon
        2019 – Lot 104
        • 2015 – Lot 64
        • 2016 – Lot 74
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        Carignan-Garnacha-Mataró
        2018 – Lot 95
        • 2017 – Lot 85
        • 2016 – Lot 75
        • 2015 – Lot 65
        • 2014 – Lot 55
        • 2013 – Lot 45
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        Carignan-Garnacha-Mataró
        2018 – Lot 96
        • 2016 – Lot 76
        • 2015 – Lot 66
        • 2014 – Lot 56
        • 2013 – Lot 46
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        Empedrado – Maule Valley
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        2018 – Lot 97
        • 2017 – Lot 87
        • 2016 – Lot 77
        • 2015 – Lot 67
        • 2014 – Lot 57
        • 2013 – Lot 47
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        Carignan Field-blend
        2015 – Lot 68
        • 2014 – Lot 58
        • 2013 – Lot 48
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        Caliboro – Maule Valley
        Garnacha Field-blend
        2o18 – Lot 99
        • 2017 – Lot 89
        • 2o16 – Lot 79
        • 2o15 – Lot 69
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      • Old Vine Pale # 38
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      • Cabernet Franc Lot # 36
      • Carignan Lot # 35
      • Carignan Lot # 34
      • Cab Franc Lot #28
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Garage in a nutshell:

Proprietors : Pilar Miranda, Derek Mossman Knapp (Ex-pat Canadian) & Doctor Alvaro Peña

Garage Wine began quite literally in Pilar and Derek’s garage in 2001. After half a dozen vintages making wine for an informal market of family and friends the firm was featured in Chile’s El Mercurio newspaper in an article dedicated to the growing grassroots movement of small wine. The firm was referred to as “that Garage Wine Company” and it was too late to change the name, and time to forge an enterprise.

GWCo makes a series of small Lots that are 8 -17 barrels each and include a Cab Franc and Cab Sauv blend, mountain-grown in the Maipo, and a series of dry-farmed Mediterranean field-blends that include Carignan, Garnacha, Mataró & Cinsualt grown on centuries-old rootstock with small farmers in the Maule and Itata. Each wine is from a different place: Caliboro, Sauzal, Truquilemu, Portezuelo  – a separate parcel of 1-2 hectares belonging to a small farmer who works with horse and plough as his family has done pretty much since colonial times. The wines are about place not varietal, nor consumer.

All of the wines are made by hand with native yeasts in small tanks, punched down manually and pressed out in a small basket press. (Students of Alvaro’s, today head of Oenology at the University of Chile, do help with some of the grunt work.) GWCo is still very much a DIY operation towing the crop back to the winery in a trailer behind a trusty pickup 2,ooo kilos at a time.

Total Production: almost 5,2oo cases

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