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Talinay Limarí Coastal Limestone Vineyard Chardonnay 2021
White Wine from Chile
From a superb vintage for whites and Chile's cool Talinay region whose limestone-rich soils give the grape a pure, crystalline, linear character. This wine is taut and fresh and a delightful model of minimalism. Less is definitely more!
Price:
£15.50
Bottle
Price:
£186.00
Case of 12
In Stock
Code: CE12081
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 2 - Dry
- Chardonnay
- 75cl
- Now to 2028
- 12.5% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Cork, diam
Viña Tabalí
This estate, which began planting vines in 1993, is located on the southern bank of Chile’s northern Limarí Valley, around 400km north of Santiago. About 29km inland from the Pacific ocean, where the average maximum temperature in the hottest month is about 25⁰C, this is ideal for fine chardonnay and pinot noir. The predominant vegetation is cacti, attesting that this is a desert, with just 90mm of rain a year (Mendoza has 200mm, Santiago 400mm), but it is a cool desert. Despite a series of reservoirs in the Andes, recent years have been very dry, and lack of water may threaten existing vineyards and limit future development.
Vineyards are situated on three sites, comprising 300 hectares of vines in total. The site around the winery was originally poorly planted but viticulturist Héctor Rojas has been analysing the soils and planting in the best ones which often have high levels of active calcium carbonate. The new Espinal vineyards, 25 km from the sea, have been planted to a density of about 7000 vines a hectare, drip irrigated, and planted with excellent clones and French sélections massales of pinot noir and chardonnay from French nursery Guillaume. The first crop of chardonnay appeared in 2013 and is already showing a huge promise. Syrah from near the winery has also been a huge success.
The second site is in the Talinay mountains just about 12km from the coast, with significant wind, which reduces crop at flowering and limits photosynthesis (and so maturity). What is...