2015 Catena Chardonnay Appellation Tupungato Mendoza

The Catena appellation wines deliver on the promise of this seven-years-in-the-making project. This lightly oaked, pear and citrus fruity Chardonnay shows Alejandro Vigil's skill with the variety, exhibiting the freshness and salinity of the best high Uco Valley examples. 2016-19.

"There is one white in the appellation range, the 2015 Appellation Tupungato Chardonnay, which is subtly balsamic and spicy from limestone-rich soils in Tupungato in the Valle de Uco, from two vineyards, in Villa Bastías and La Esmeralda. There are pungent flavors, very good intensity and balance and the chalky sensation is nicely coated by juicy fruit. One for the table. 15,000 bottles produced. The first vintage was 2012.

Bright gold-tinged yellow. Much deeper, riper and richer than the basic 2014 Mendoza Chardonnay, offering sweet stone fruit and apple flavors lifted by saline minerality. This dense Chardonnay shows glyceral warmth but finishes with noteworthy lift.

Kultiveret og sammensat næse med klassisk Chardonnay-karakter og flot balance mellem kølig frugt, krydderi og egetræ. Nydelig mineralitet med klare europæiske tendenser midt i al overdådigheden. God styrke og mere citrus end ferskenpræg. solid mundfylde, masser af cremet frugtfedme og nydelig balance. Vellykket og potent madvin i nydelig blanding mellem oversøisk og klassisk fransk stil.