Chacra, Chardonnay, Patagonia, Argentina 2021

100% Chardonnay

Done in collaboration with Jean-Marc Roulot, the Chacra Chardonnay is produced from 40 year old vines in mineral soils with alluvial stones covered in calcaire. The wine is intense and energetic, high pitched and lively, round and austere, refined and mineral. It has a dry mouthfeel and a saltiness natural to the area.

It was fermented in barrel with 100% malolactic, spending eleven months in barrels.

The team at Chacra understands farms as complex living organisms, and approaches agriculture with a focus on the balance between overall development and the relationship between soils, plants and animals to maintain a system of self nutrition, avoiding extrinsic intervention whenever possible and keeping in mind that any food exiting from the estate represents a loss of its nutrients.

Artificial fertilizers and toxic pesticides and herbicides are categorically prohibited. Biodynamic agriculture’s uniqueness lies in the use of vegetable and mineral preparations that are added to compost and aerosols for the land, as well as in the use of a sowing and planting calendar based on the movement of the stars.