Las Estelas Chardonnay

REGION: Uco Valley, Argentina

VARIETIES: Chardonnay

YEAR: 2022

ABV: 14.5%

INFO: Estela Perinetti is the winemaker behind this project. Estela was one of the first of South America’s rapidly growing family of women winemakers. She spent more than two decades heading up some of Catena’s most high-profile winery projects and she has been very much in demand as one of Mendoza’s leading consultants since. Las Estelas is her baby!

The vineyard site is Finca Valmore  at 1,380 metres above sea level in El Peral Alto, Uco Valley. 100% barrel fermented in a combination of new and second use French barrels with indigenous yeasts; 70% undergoes malolactic. The wine is aged for 10 months in 30% new, 45% second use French oak and 25% ceramic barrels.

Beautiful stone fruit aromas with delicate mineral, apple and citrus notes; the oak is sublimely judged throughout, the texture in the mouth is simultaneously luxurious and under-stated.