2020 Vino de Vinedo Los Parientes Chardonnay
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Tasting Notes
Baettig ferments this wine in larger 400-litre barrels (10% new) so the oak doesn’t overpower the fruit. There’s a wonderful clarity here, retaining beautiful aromatic notes of fig, honeydew melon and lime. The texture is excellent for the price point with an impressive mid-palate richness. The oak provides a lovely rippling textural quality to the wine, while retaining a fantastic, vibrant acidic backbone giving lovely tension. The fruit flavours are fresh and have that New World pristine quality, but never verge on the tropical. Superb – and just 13% alcohol.
Compared to the 2019, the ripe citrus fruit is better integrated with the acidity. A cool vintage for the region produced a wine with lovely contrasting lemon and orchard fruit flavours with more savoury, earthy, lightly smoky, mineral tones. The wine has great tautness, and the vibrancy really lends persistence to the palate. Again, it has a very vertical Chablis-esque style that is beautifully balanced and refreshing.
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Joaquin Hidalgo, Vinous
James Suckling
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This is a fine and also nicely phenolic expression of chardonnay, showing ripe lemon and some tangerine, dried peach, minerals, ginger and a lift of jasmine on the nose. Full-bodied and broad with some nice bite to the flavors. Rich and flavorful, but fresh, mineral and refined. So different from 2021. Give it a try. Drink or hold.
The 2020 Chardonnay Baettig Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes, from Malleco, Traiguén, spent 10 months in French barrels and has a nose of verbena and orange blossom with hints of wood, yeast, lemon zest and basil. Fleshy in the mouth, it is pleasantly rich, fresh and long-lasting.
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Baettig is the exciting project from leading winemaker Francisco Baettig (of Errázuriz fame). Crafting vibrant, site-expressive wines from Chile’s south, with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in Malleco and Cabernet Sauvignon from the Maule – this is one of the hottest names in South America.