Garage Wine Co. VIGNO Cariñena, Truquilemu Vineyard

VIGNO Cariñena er en opvisning i, hvordan man bedst muligt forener dybde og intensitet med letbenet finesse. Alt det vender vi tilbage til, men først lige en opsummering af, hvad der kræves for at man må kalde den VIGNO.

- En Vigno-vin skal være lavet på druer fra "bush vines" / gobelet-trænede vinstokke.
- Vinstokkene skal være mindst 50 år gamle.
- Markerne skal være beliggende i området kendt som Maule Secano
- Vinen skal være lavet på mindst 85% Carignan
(de øvrige 15 % skal opfylde samme kriterier som ovenfor)
- Vinen skal lagre i mindst to år før frigivelse.

Garage var et stiftende medlem af Vigno og har tappet deres versionsiden 2010.
I dag sidder Garage-medstifteren og -medejeren, Pilar, i bestyrelsen.

Anmeldelser og point

99 point - Robert Parker/The Wine Advocate
"There are three Carignan/Cariñena wines from the same vineyard in Truquilemu in 2018, and the 2018 Vigno comes from a section further down along the creek where there's terrific drainage and thus low yield and concentration. It's Carignan with smidgens of País and Monastrell in the field blend, the grapes grown by a mall farmer by hand and horse with traditional methods of dry-farming, uncertified organic for 75+ years. Like all the rest, it fermented in open-top vats with indigenous yeasts and matured in used barrels over two winters. None of these wines are about the process, they are about the place and the year. In 2018, the wine finished with 13% alcohol, a pH of 3.2 and seven grams of acidity, parameters that talk about a wine with moderate ripeness and vibrant freshness, from a cooler year in a cool part of Maule. 3,336 bottles produced."