2015 Errazuriz Chardonnay Las Pizarras

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  12/30/2023 - J'agnes Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Definite mid gold in colour. Creamy/ buttery nose with a hint of preserved lemon. Palate is rich and unctuous with lemon zest, lime and toasted butter. Long finish with a nice mineral/ wet stone vibe. 4 bottles left of this vintage - I think this is very near its peak and certainly I will be finishing up the remaining bottles by the end of 2024.

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  5/26/2023 - Oddbod Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Mid green-gold in colour. Showing little sign of age. A touch of TCA on the nose? Otherwise, baked apples, creamy oak and a hints of ripe melon. Palate is super-compacted, not really opened out at this age, long and linear, with a Riesling-like, key-lime pie freshness. Not what I was expecting. Is the fruit suppressed by TCA?

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  12/10/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points

  Green apple fruit with additional layers of more topical fruit, fine oak flavors and mineral notes of steel and sea salt. A beautifully creamy and buttery texture with sufficient acidity to keep it fresh and light. Had this in 2018 and 2020 and the development has been flawless with many years of life left. Unfortunately I have now burned through my last bottle too early...

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  10/15/2021 - J'agnes Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Pale gold and super bright in the glass. Citrus and oak on the nose which becomes less reticent as the wine warms in the glass. Very distinct acidity - hint of green apple in this bottle - excellent length with a full creaminess in the palate - a mix of oak and malolactic which is a nod to GC Chablis as noted by a previous reviewer. Excellent wine - 6 bottles remain and I must remain firm to ration the remainder as I suspect this wine is only going to improve for a number of years but is so delicious right now.

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  7/23/2021 - GArpaia Likes this wine:

  Pale lemon. Pronounced. Creamy and mineral with high pungent acidity. Lemon, hay, touch of butter, but the sharp acidity makes it balanced. Could be mistaken for a GC Chablis blind.
  
  
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  Second vintage, the 2015 Aconcagua Costa "Las Pizarras" Chardonnay was sourced entirely from their Aconcagua Costa Vineyard from specific plots that have a significant component of "pizarra" (schist), hence the name. 2015 was a warm and dry year, but they still managed to bottle a white with 13% alcohol, a low pH of 3.1 and with almost nine grams of acidity! The full clusters were pressed and the juice put to ferment with indigenous yeasts after 24 hours in French oak barrels. Only half of the wine underwent malolactic fermentation. It matured in barrique (15% new) for 12 months.

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