Garage Wine Co. Revival País 2022

Garage Wine Co. is doing something pretty special down in Chile's Maule Valley. During the pandemic, when everyone was stuck at home, they started this project to save old, forgotten País vines and support the rural families who've been tending them for generations.

Most of the wine world had written these sites off. Too remote. Too small. The vines are gnarled and dry-farmed, growing on granite soils, head-trained the old way. But that isolation, that neglect, turned out to be the whole point. The flavours coming out of these vineyards are wild.

This is País like you've never had it. There's fresh guava flesh, which sounds weird for a red wine but trust us, it works. Campfire smoke. Cocoa nibs. Crushed chalk. The tannins are craggy and sort of scamper across your palate like small animals. Vibrant, focused, full of purpose. And just a whisper of dried roses at the end.

Pour it with seared duck breast and roasted grapes, or empanadas.