Winemaker Notes
MAX Chardonnay 2020 will delight you with its yellow straw color and greenish hues. On the nose, it shows aromas of papaya, loquat, pineapple and tangerine. The palate first shows its fresh fruit character, framed by notes of marzipan. The wine is fresh and juicy, offering a balance between breadth and verticality, plus great persistence.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of cooked apple and green mango with some floral undertones. Medium -o full-bodied with a creamy texture and a yogurt undertone. Hints of cream. Fruity at the end. Drink now.
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Vinous
The 2020 Chardonnay Max from Aconcagua was aged for 10 months in 20% new barrels. Greenish yellow in the glass. The clear nose offers hints of apple and pear against a tropical backdrop and hazelnut aromas. In the mouth, it's both creamy and fatty with good, integrated freshness.
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.