Garage Wine Company Pais Carinena Phoenix Ferment

Straw yellow in colour with golden hue. It's surprisingly floral and aromatic on the bouquet, fresh and clean, with a vibrant palate, focused and delicious. A savoury, scrubby, sparse, cool windy landscape that takes the wine back into unique territory. Fresh, floral, savoury with a richness of texture on the finish.

As the name suggests, the company was established in Derek and Pilars' garage twenty years ago. When the one vineyard that had been supplying them with grapes decided to stop – preferring to sell their fruit to better-known producers – the Garage Wine Company looked further south to the Maule and Itata Valleys in the dry-farmed Secano Interior region. There, the winery started working with small-scale, unknown growers whose ancestors had been dry farming the land since Colonial Times. To this day, these farmers continue to use the wisdom handed down through the generations, resulting in better quality fruit and, ultimately, more characterful wines.