Winemaker Notes
Pure yellow-straw color with greenish hues. The nose unfolds aromas that recall loquat, pineapple and soft touches of vanilla. The palate is in line with what is perceived on the nose, fresh fruit framed by marzipan tones. It is a fresh and juicy wine that shows a balance between length and verticality during its time on the palate and great persistence.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Classy nose displaying honeyed scents, with toasty and nutty aromas over tropical fruit and ripe red apples. Full on the palate.
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James Suckling
Roasted pineapple, croissant, lemon pastry and a hint of turmeric. This is a textured, medium-to full-bodied chardonnay, framed by a flavorful yet textured center-palate. Some nice minerality at the end.
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.