Blanc de Blancs
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 3 to 8 years from the vintage release to appreciate both its youthful coastal energy and its developing autolytic complexity.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, smoked salmon blinis, or roasted chicken.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Errazuriz Blanc de Blancs is a sparkling wine that showcases the estate's pioneering exploration of the cool-climate Aconcagua Costa region, located just 12 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean. Grown on unique metamorphic soils with a high presence of schist, the grapes benefit from cold maritime breezes and morning mists, allowing for a slow ripening process that preserves intense acidity and mineral drive. Crafted using the traditional method, this 100% Chardonnay cuvée undergoes secondary fermentation in the bottle and extended lees aging, resulting in a sophisticated sparkling wine that balances vibrant citrus and green apple notes with complex autolytic characters of toasted brioche and hazelnut.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1870 by Don Maximiano Errázuriz, Viña Errázuriz is an architect of modern Chilean viticulture. Sited in the Aconcagua Valley, the estate traverses diverse mesoclimates, moving from warm, alluvial inland terraces framed by the Andes to cool-climate maritime slopes in Aconcagua Costa. Viticulture emphasizes precision farming certified under the Wines of Chile Sustainability Code. Errázuriz revolutionized Chile's global standing through the historic 2004 Berlin Tasting orchestrated by Eduardo Chadwick, alongside longtime Technical Director Francisco Baettig. While internationally revered for red icons, Errázuriz’s white wine program demonstrates profound terroir mastery, especially along the coastal schist soils of the Las Pizarras vineyard. Benchmark white expressions like Las Pizarras Chardonnay deliver striking mineral reduction, crystalline acidity, and tension, while the Max and Costa Sauvignon Blancs showcase vibrant, citrus-driven linear precision that highlights the estate's exceptional Pacific maritime influence.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay 100%
🍷 ABV
12% - 12.5%