Garage Wine Co., 2017 Pirque Vineyard Cabernet Franc

No.38 | What's In My Glass

Hello October! It’s hard to believe there are only three months left of 2024.

These last few weeks I’ve been deep in research, planning and production mode to organize what wines and regions I want to cover in my video deep dives for the remainder of the year. Among these may include two features from both Chile and Argentina - countries where there are some exciting things happening with Cabernet Franc, but I haven’t covered them to the extent they deserve.

Chile, in particular, doesn’t see much time in the spotlight for their expressions of Cabernet Franc even though their plantings of the variety are not too far off those of Argentina (1,592 hectares versus 1,857 hectares, respectively). I suspect this has as much to do with the fact that examples of single varietal Cabernet Franc from Chile aren’t as widely exported (to North America at least) as their Argentinian counterparts, but I also think Chile has had a harder time shaking their “cheap wine producer” image and is a little b…