Winemaker Notes
Yellow straw color with greenish hues. The nose unfolds aromas of pineapple, loquats, tangerine and nuts. The palate displays notes of fresh citric fruits, pineapple and soft touches of pastries, nuts and vanilla. It is a linear and fresh wine with great volume and persistence on the palate with an elegant mineral mouthfeel.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A fresh, cool and flavorful chardonnay, showing chalky green fruit, stones, guava, sliced green apples and subtle, fine lees and sour cream. This is a fresh, medium-to full-bodied and ample expression of the variety, with impressive substance on the center-palate, yet rendered in a very nimble and elegant way. A fine and cooler expression of chardonnay from Chile with some subtle creaminess in the end. Delicious now, so why wait?
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
All the wines from Arboleda are very good representations of their varietal and the vintage, like the 2021 Chardonnay Aconcagua Costa that has notes of waxy apples and a hint of spice from the 10% fermentation and aging in oak foudre. It's clean, dry and tasty, with medium ripeness, 13% alcohol and very good freshness and acidity showcasing the cool year.
Rating: 91+
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.