Winemaker Notes
Arboleda Chardonnay 2020 has a bright yellow-greenish color. It shows citrus fruits like pink grapefruit and tangerine are accompanied by melon and fresh pineapple on the nose. The palate is dominated by a citrus profile and sweet notes such as pineapple, melon, and mango with some vanilla, pastries, and marzipan hints. It is linear, juicy, and tense, quite vertical with good structure and breadth on the palate.
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
The 2020 Chardonnay from Quillota, Aconcagua Costa, spent 10 months in barrels and is a greenish yellow in color with a nose of stewed green apple, ginger and creamed corn over a bed of aromas from the aging process. Intense with accomplished freshness, it's smooth and a little expansive thanks to the malic acidity.
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.