{"product_id":"2021-chacra-chacra-chardonnay-patagonia-argentina","title":"2021 Chacra 'Chacra' Chardonnay, Patagonia, Argentina","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The 2021 Chacra Chardonnay is produced by Jean-Marc Roulot with the help of the Chacra team. It comes from the proper Chacra Vineyard, from 40-year-old vines on mineral soils with alluvial stones covered with calcium carbonate. It fermented with indigenous yeasts, 10% in clay amphorae, 15% in concrete eggs and 75% in French oak barrels, and 75% of the wine matured in barrel for nine months, while 25% of the volume was kept in concrete for that time. It has 13% alcohol and a pH of 3.3. There is a big jump in subtleness, precision and elegance from the other Chardonnay; this comes from better vines, with better soil, more limestone, and it shows the energy, the chalkiness and the sapid sensation, almost saline in the finish. It's high pitched, pure, elegant and subtle, with a velvety mouthfeel but vibrant and full of energy, floral, perfumed, nuanced and with great purity and precision, like a laser cut with the Roulot laser... 14,000 bottles were produced. It was bottled in January 2022.\" 96 points, Wine Advocate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePiero Incisa della Rocchetta carries a name that needs no introduction — his grandfather created Sassicaia, the Super Tuscan that changed everything. But Piero's own obsession led him somewhere altogether different: the arid, windswept Río Negro Valley of Patagonia, where ungrafted Pinot Noir vines planted as far back as 1932 had been quietly surviving in isolation. Phylloxera never reached here. Neither, it seems, did compromise. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChacra is fully certified organic and biodynamic, farming 25 hectares of red varieties and 15 of Chardonnay — the latter in collaboration with Burgundy's Jean-Marc Roulot. Chemicals are gone, replaced by beehives, cover crops, and a new underground cellar built from local clay bricks. The wines are pure, mineral, and alive — among the most compelling Pinot Noirs made anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chacra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44544586186845,"sku":null,"price":240.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/7426\/1853\/files\/IMG_4697.jpg?v=1782279655","url":"https:\/\/oakandelevage.com.au\/products\/2021-chacra-chacra-chardonnay-patagonia-argentina","provider":"Oak \u0026 Elevage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}