Garage Vigno is a wine of the variety Cariñena or Carignan grafted onto a cutting of the variety País or another ancient grape variety. The age of the plants is not less than 30 years and its irrigation system is the natural rainfall, no irrigation (rain fed). The conduction system is the oldest one: in head training (cabeza or vaso or Gobelet). The origin of the grapes for these wines is the upland South Maule Valley, in a precisely defined area. The standard composition of the wine according to the producer’s regulations to be named Vigno, must be a minimum of 65 % Carignan and the remaining 35 % is freely available, according to the oenological criteria of each winemaker.

However, 100 % of the wine must come from vineyards over 30 years old, planted in dry lands condition and only in the area of Maule. Aging is a minimum of 24 months in barrel and / or bottle, depending on the wine style of each winemaker.

Vigno is a expression for Vignadores de Carignan, a new collaborative project to promote old vine Carignan wines from Maule (www.vigno.org). The name Vignadores is a play of words amongst the French vigneron which means at the same time winegrower and winemaker and the Spanish term for winegrower, viñador or viñatero, in the same way that Cariñena, the name of the city that gave the Spanish name to the vine variety and its French expression Carignan.