Garage Wine Company Reelegido Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Lot 101 2018

Type: Red
Country: Chile
Region: Maule
Grape Variety: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Viticulture: Certified Organic
Ratings: 94 Robert Parker Points

Climate: Mediterranean with high levels of rainfall
Terroir: Grapes produced from a single vineyard parcel from Isla Maipo Valley. The vineyard is 946 metres above the sea. Vines grow on alluvial soils
Winemaking: Naturally fermented. Conical oval-shaped lagar fermenters (open), 3000 kgs. Caps punched down by hand. Aged in barrels with 2 or more uses over 2 winters

Color: Light ruby
Nose: Sexy, highly perfumed bouquet of fresh red berries, cherry pit, potpourri with hints of black pepper adding complexity
Palate: Spicy and expansive in the mouth, offering lively cherry and raspberry flavours and intense floral character. Silky tannins add grip and shape to the long, sappy finish

About the Winery:
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 handcrafted 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.

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. The Garage Wine Company 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.