Concha y Toro Marques de Casa Concha Chardonnay 2017
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Combining richness with elegance, this ripe, delicious wine serves up tasty white pear, mineral notes and toasty hazelnut.
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Plenty of white pepper and lightly cooked apples and lemon curd. Chalk undertones. Full-to medium-bodied, dense and tight palate with sliced lemon and lime flavors. Extremely long and vivid. Drink now.
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COMMENTARY: Over the past decade, Limarí—located 22 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean—has emerged as one of the top growing regions for Chardonnay. The 2017 Concha y Toro Marques de Casa Concha is an excellent example of a World Class Chardonnay. TASTING NOTES: This wine shows the class of the grape variety. Its pristine aromas and flavors of ripe citrus and bright minerality should pair it well with poached white fish. (Tasted: May 31, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Founded in 1883, Vina Concha y Toro is Latin America's leading producer and occupies an outstanding position among the world’s most important wine companies, currently exporting to 135 countries worldwide. Uniquely, it owns around 9,500 hectares of prime vineyards, which allows the company to secure the highest quality grapes for its wine production. Concha y Toro's portfolio includes a wide range of successful brands at every price point, from the top of the range Don Melchor and Almaviva to the flagship brand Casillero del Diablo and innovative stand-alone brands such as Palo Alto and Maycas del Limarí. The company has 3,162 employees and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Part of the Coquimbo region and a key location for pisco production, the Limari Valley is one of the northern most wine producing regions of Chile. The other two, also part of Coquimbo, are the Elqui and less-developed Choapa Valleys. While more vineyard area is dedicated to pisco production (via the grapes of Muscat of Alexandria, Pedro Jimenez, Moscatel de Asturia and Torontel), the acreage under vine for still wine production has increased. The intense sunlight in the Limari Valley, coupled with little rainfall as well as the cooling effect of the Humboldt Current from the Pacifc Ocean, all make the area ideal for cool climate grapes like Chardonnay and Pinot noir.