Chacra, Pinot Noir 'Cincuenta y Cinco', 2023 CHAMPCT0612 and Charlie Clay’s 2021 bottling

and Charlie Clay’s 2021 bottling is a perfect example of this

“Bretêche” comes from a limestone-heavy site at the eastern end of the appellation

and aloe—into a dark

and wild blueberry burst from the glass

just north of Auckland

Chacra, Pinot Noir 'Cincuenta y Cinco', 2023 CHAMPCT0612 and Charlie Clay’s 2021 bottlingThe name means fifty five, for the year these ungrafted Pinot Noir vines were planted: 1955. That's serious old vine pedigree anywhere, let alone in the Patagonian desert of Rio Negro, where Piero Incisa della Rocchetta farms Chacra biodynamically. The fruit grows on a sea of riverbed pebbles, and the wine is fermented whole cluster with native yeasts at low temperatures, then aged in a roughly even split of concrete and neutral oak before bottling