Bodega Chacra Barda Pinot Noir 2023

In 2004, Piero Incisa della Rocchetta purchased the first of Bodega Chacra's vineyards, a property with an existing, though abandoned, vineyard planted in 1932 in the Rio Negro Valley in northern Patagonia. His grandfather - the Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta - created the famed Super Tuscan, Sassicaia.  Piero was drawn to the old pinot noir vines, along with promising soils, a sparkling climate and had a dream of creating a self-sustaining wine estate. 

Barda is the local term for “eroded steep slope” Often perceived as the “village level” Pinot Noir at Chacra, Barda is sourced from the estate’s “youngest vines” planted in the 1990s. The vines are ungrafted, from an original massale selection on sandy calcareous soils presenting a more high toned aromatic component in the wine. Barda is fermented in equal parts concrete and French oak, 15% of which is new followed by an 11 month elévage.