Las Pizzaras Chardonnay
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea bass, roasted chicken with herbs, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Errazuriz's Las Pizarras Chardonnay represents a groundbreaking chapter in Chilean viticulture, born from the cool, maritime hills of Aconcagua Costa just 12 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean. The name 'Las Pizarras' pays homage to the rare metamorphic slate (schist) soils that define these specific vineyard blocks. This unique terroir, combined with cold ocean breezes and morning mists, imparts an extraordinary mineral tension and crystalline purity to the wine. Crafted with Burgundian inspiration, the grapes are hand-harvested and gently pressed before undergoing fermentation with native yeasts in French oak barrels. To preserve its vibrant, laser-like acidity and saline character, malolactic fermentation is carefully restricted, resulting in a world-class Chardonnay that balances intense citrus and stone fruit notes with a profound, stony minerality.
🍾 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
🍷 ABV
13% - 13.5%