Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
An upgrade here with flint and gunmetal character to the sliced green apples and pears. Full to medium body, vivid acidity with a creamy texture. Contrastive mouthfeel, which makes this special. Complex. This over-delivers.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The coastal 2019 Chardonnay Aconcagua Costa has varietal aromas and a serious and balanced palate with very good freshness. It has moderate alcohol and supple flavors and is refreshing and dry, with a notable finish. It spent 10 months in oak barrels, 10% of them new.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
The Aconcagua River runs east from the charming costal town of Valparaiso and bisects the land creating the valley after which it was named. While alluvial soils predominate the Aconcagua Valey along its river throughout, its east-west flow creates drastically different conditions on each of its ends. Its western, seaside vineyards, with clay and stony soils upon gently rolling hills, produce cool-climate varieties such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Its inner region is one of Chile’s hottest and produces some of its best red wines. Panquehue in the inner Aconcagua is the site of Chile’s first Syrah vines, planted in 1993.