Costa Chardonnay
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled sea bass, roasted chicken with herbs, creamy mushroom pasta
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the cool-climate Aconcagua Costa vineyard situated just 12 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, the Errazuriz Costa Chardonnay is a masterclass in maritime-influenced viticulture. The vines thrive in unique metamorphic soils rich in schist, locally known as pizarra, which imparts a distinctive flinty minerality to the wine. Benefiting from morning mists and cooling ocean breezes, the grapes undergo a slow ripening process that preserves their vibrant natural acidity. Fermented in French oak barrels and aged on its fine lees, this Chardonnay beautifully balances bright citrus and stone fruit flavors with a textured, creamy mouthfeel and a long, saline finish, representing Errazuriz's pioneering spirit in exploring Chile's coastal frontiers.
🍾 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
100% Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
13% - 13.5%