“Carignan was asleep in this condition for almost 60 years,” says Andrés Sánchez, who realized the potential of these old vines in Maule as winemaker at Gillmore and decided five years ago to build what he calls “Chile’s first appellation.”VIGNO, as it’s known, is anassociation of 14 wineries bound together under the commitment to produce old-vine, dry-farmed Carignan from Maule.