Garage Wine Co. was founded in 2001 by Derek Mossman Knapp, Pilar Miranda, and oenologist Dr. Alvaro Peña. Originally from Toronto, Knapp moved to Chile in the late 1990s—initially for a skiing trip—but stayed after meeting his wife, Pilar Miranda, and discovering the potential of the country's old-growth vineyards. Garage Wine Co. began as a literal "garage" hobby to make small-batch wines for family and friends. It has since grown into a mid-sized artisanal winery into a respected producer of small-batch, terroir-driven wines from the Maule Valley and other regions of southern Chile. The winery works closely with local growers to revive old, dry-farmed vineyards using traditional “originario” methods such as hand cultivation and ploughing with horses, and they ferment all their wines with indigenous yeasts in a hands-on, minimal-intervention style. The Renacido Vineyard is a distinctive site in Chile’s Maule Valley where the winery sources old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon that’s been dry-farmed and tended with traditional, hands-on methods. The vines—some over 150 years old and originally planted as País before being grafted to Cabernet Sauvignon—grow on silty, sandy granitic soils on an east-facing slope in the coastal range, giving the fruit a unique combination of bright red fruit, herbal complexity, and fine texture. Garage Wine Co. ferments these grapes with indigenous yeasts and gentle manual punch-downs, then ages the wine in neutral barrels for two winters, resulting in