Our Portfolio
Sans Wine Company – Carbonic Carignan “Coyote Rock”
Carignan from California, United States
The ‘Coyote Rock’ block on the Poor Ranch was planted in 1943 and is the oldest block of Carignan on their property. The whole clusters are put into a small stainless tank which is sealed for 25 days, where it goes through primary fermentation naturally and without any manipulation. Malolactic...
Organic
DB9155-17
Garage Wine – Carignan Portezuelo Itata #58
Carignan from Itata, Chile
This wine was grown by a small farmer in Itata. It was farmed by hand and horse with traditional methods of dry-farming old vines with vines of Cinsault in the field-blend. Fermented naturally in small open-top tanks ; caps were punched down by hand and pressing was strictly manual. The wine was...
Organic
DB2022-14
Porter Creek Vineyards – Carignane "Old Vine", Mendocino
Carignan from California, United States
The fruit comes from an organic, dry-farmed, head-trained vineyard in Hopland that was planted in 1939. 100% destemmed and fermented with native yeasts for 2-3 days in old French oak barrels up to 8 years old. Aged 11 months in 50% 3800L wooden tank and 50% in small barrels (228L). About 800 cases...
Biodynamic
DB7739-15
Clos Saron – Carignane Old Vine "Pleasant Peasant"
Carignan from California, United States
100% Carignan from vines planted in 1900. Crushed by foot and fermented whole-cluster.
Organic
DB6452-16
Rivano, Angelo – Carignano del Sulcis "Intrigu"
Carignan from Sardinia, Italy
100% Carignano. Harvest was on Sept 23rd at yields of around 38 hectoliters/hectare.  The grapes were destemmed; spontaneous fermentation with a maceration of 12/14 days.  Aged is in stainless steel for approximately 6 months, followed by 3 months in bottle.  420 cases produced.

DB1067-17
Ampeleia – Carignano IGT Costa Toscana
Carignan from Tuscany, Italy
100% Carignan, this bottling is part of the "Monovarietali" project.  It comes from the 'Campo al Finocchio' vineyard, planted between 2002-2004 at 250m above sea level, with grey clays and galestro (friable clay/limestone marl).  The SW-facing vineyard is isolated, surrounded by trees. Harvest was...
Biodynamic
DB6282-17
Oupia, Château d' – Les Hérétiques IGP Pays d'Hérault
Carignan from Languedoc, France
90% Carignan/10% Syrah. The Carignan vines average 40 years in age, with some of them being up over 100 years old. The fruit is sustainably farmed and harvested partly by hand and partly by machine. Half of the Carignan is vinified traditionally--destemmed and fermented in used barrel and macerated...
Sustainable
DB8984-18
Oupia, Château d' – Minervois Rouge Tradition
Carignan from Languedoc, France
50% Carignan/30% Syrah/20% Grenache. The Carignan ranges in age from 50 to 100 years old, on hillsides in the AOC of Minervois; the Syrah is over 40 years old. The fruit is hand-harvested, mostly destemmed, and fermented with selected yeasts in vat. After a maceration of several weeks, it is aged...
Sustainable
DB8985-16
Calder Wine Co. – Old Vine Carignane Evangelho Contra Costa
Carignan from California, United States
Evangelho vineyard is one of the great vineyards in California. Planted in the 1880s to a mixture of Zinfandel, Mataro (Mourvedre), and Carignane, these ancient vines reside on their own roots in Delhi sand. In 2018, the vineyard passed into the hands of Morgan Twain-Peterson and Chris Cottrell,...

DB6061-16
Frenchtown Farms – Red Blend "Cotillion" Lodi
Carignan from California, United States
70% Mourvèdre 20% Grenache 10% Syrah from David Girard Vineyards - El Dorado County.13.3% whole cluster foot-stomped aged in old French oak puncheons for 10 months.Bottled with 18ppm SO2 unfined and unfiltered.
Organic
DB5165-17
Frenchtown Farms – Red Blend "Cotillion" Lodi
Carignan from California, United States
Organically grown Mourvèdre, Grenache, and Syrah from David Girard Vineyard in Placerville, CA.Whole-Cluster, foot-stomped, and fermented in open top vessels with vigorous punchdowns twice or more a day.Pressed after 5 days of maceration and aged in neutral french oak barrels for 8 months.Bottled...
Organic
DB5165-18
Sans Wine Company – Rosé of Carignan “Poor Ranch”
Carignan from California, United States
A blend of 3 Carignan blocks (Billy’s, Coyote Rock, Mitchell Jacks) from the Poor Ranch in Hopland, Mendocino. The oldest block, “Coyote Rock,” was planted in 1943. The Poors are 5th generation farmers and this property has been in their family since the late 1800s. They have never irrigated their...
Organic
DB9151-18
La Onda – Syrah/Carignan Mendocino
Carignan from California, United States
Whole-cluster stomped Syrah and Carignan from the Poor Ranch and Coyote Rock (old vine block at Poor ranch). Co-fermented, whole-cluster, in open-top container and aged on its lees in old French oak.  A small amount of SO2 is added the day before bottling.  Bottled directly from barrels with small...
Organic
DB7131-15
Garage Wine – Vigno
Carignan from Maule, Chile
Vigno is an “appellation” that MOVI members created several years ago to classify traditionally-made, naturally-farmed Carignan-based field blends. The fruit for this wine—primarily 70-year-old Carignan, with Garnacha and Mataró—comes from Truquilemu, a site in what most consider to be the “...
94 WA Organic
DB1810-15