Las Pizzaras Pinot Noir
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, wild mushroom risotto, seared salmon
✨ Technical Specifications
Errazuriz Las Pizarras Pinot Noir represents a groundbreaking milestone in Chilean viticulture, born from a quest to produce a world-class, cool-climate Pinot Noir. Located in the Aconcagua Costa appellation, just 12 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, the vineyard is defined by its unique metamorphic slate soils—locally known as 'pizarras'—which are exceedingly rare in Chile. This exceptional terroir, combined with the cooling maritime breezes and morning mists, imparts a distinct mineral tension and elegant structure to the wine. Hand-harvested and fermented with a portion of whole clusters to enhance aromatic complexity, the wine is aged in French oak barrels for upwards of 12 to 14 months. The result is a profound, terroir-driven expression that challenges the traditional boundaries of South American Pinot Noir, offering intense red fruit notes, floral undertones, and a signature flinty 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
Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
13% - 13.5%