Garage Wine Co.

Garage Wine Company began literally in a garage, where Pilar Miranda and Derek Mossman made several vintages for family and friends before sending their first commercial wines to the United Kingdom and Denmark in 2006. The company formed long-term relationships with small farmers tending old, dry-farmed vineyards planted with mixed grape varieties in Maule and Itata. Its parcel wines carry individual lot numbers.

Some vineyards are worked with horse and plough, and wines are fermented with native yeasts in small, separately handled lots. After Chile’s 2010 earthquake, the team also helped create a grower-focused initiative intended to keep traditional vineyards commercially viable.