Costa Syrah
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3 to 10 years from the vintage.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lamb chops, grilled duck breast, wild mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Errazuriz's Aconcagua Costa Syrah represents a pioneering shift in Chilean viticulture, moving towards the cool, ocean-influenced hills of the Aconcagua Costa AVA, just 12 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean. Grown on the rolling hills of the Manzanar Vineyard, the vines thrive in soils rich in metamorphic rock and schist, cooled by morning mists and maritime breezes. This unique terroir imparts a distinct cool-climate signature to the Syrah, characterized by vibrant acidity, intense black pepper, and savory, mineral undertones rather than the jammy fruit of warmer regions. Fermented in stainless steel and aged in French oak barrels, this wine showcases the elegant, northern Rhône-inspired side of Chile, combining fresh blackberry fruit with complex notes of tapenade, violets, and wild herbs.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Syrah
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
13-13.5%