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Bodega Chacra Pinot Noir Rio Negro Treinta y Dos 2007
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Region: Rio Negro
The flagship wine of the estate, Treinta y Dos (or 1932), is the prized cru named after the eponymous vineyard, planted in 1932. The wine is produced from gnarled, seventy-year old vines which contribute to its depth and complexity. The grapes are hand-harvested and the wine itself is made with minimal intervention. Treienta y Dos is a highly-structured wine.
The 2007 is reserved, displaying a particular precision and complexity. It will need another five years of cellaring to show its full potential. Between 400 and 600 cases are produced each year.
About the Producer
Bodega Chacra is located in the Rio Negro Valley of northern Patagonia,
620 miles south of Buenos Aires, roughly equidistant west to east from
the Andes Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. The region possesses a dry
and arid climate and is protected by a natural barrier of the
surrounding desert. The air is pristine and without pollution, creating
tremendous luminosity and purity of sunlight. The seasons are precisely
defined, with hot summers, cold winters and mild springs and autumns.
This consistency of climate creates a consistency of wine from vintage
to vintage.
In 2004, Piero Incisa della Rocchetta purchased the
first of vineyard land, which is now Bodega Chacra. At the time this
was a property with an existing, though abandoned, vineyard planted
over seventy years ago. Piero was called from of his multigenerational,
Italian winemaking family to the southern hemisphere, compelled by the
goal to produce world-class Pinot Noir from uncharted and untested
territory.
This singular vineyard at Bodega Chacra is of thick,
pure, gnarled Pinot Noir vines, plants from their own rootstock
producing tiny bunches of small, concentrated berries which are
harvested by hand. No automated mechanization is used at any stage of
the production process. The grapes are refrigerated to preserve the
freshness of their fruit, and then hand de-stemmed and sorted before
moving to cement tanks for fermentation.
Winemaking continues at
Bodega Chacra in the most natural manner and the first wine vinified at
the estate is “Trienta y Dos.” When the alcoholic fermentation is
complete, the wine is transferred off the skins into small French oak
barrels in the most gentle manner possible, by gravity, without
pressing or filtering. Bottling takes place around the first week of
March without fining or filtration. The objective is for the oak, the
fruit and the nuances of the soil to marry perfectly so that influence
of the wood is nearly imperceptible in the wine, and the vine and
character of the land are expressed to their fullest.
Following
the acquisition of the 1932 vineyard, and preceding the 2006 vintage,
Piero discovered and purchased two additional old vine Pinot Noir
vineyards. This acquisition allowed for the making of two additional
Bodega Chacra wines. The first, from a vineyard planted in 1955, is
referred to “Cinquenta y Cinco”. The second wine called “Barda” (“The
Ridge”) is a blend of “declassified” grapes from the single-vineyard
wines coupled with grapes from a fifteen years old vineyard which is
located on the original 1932 property. |
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