Bodega Chacra Chardonnay Mainque 2024 Southern Rhone The estate's ten vineyard plots

The estate's ten vineyard plots are laid out around a small lake and named for their light exposure: morning

The elevation of these vineyards enhances their exposure to the cooling maritime breezes from the nearby Atlantic

which is precision and transparency rather than power

2024 was one of the most difficult growing seasons in the Cote d'Or in decades: relentless spring rain

Bodega Chacra Chardonnay Mainque 2024 Southern Rhone The estate's ten vineyard plotsThe Land Argentine wine means Mendoza Malbec to most American drinkers, and this is neither. Rio Negro sits in northern Patagonia, hundreds of miles south of Mendoza, in flat desert where apple and pear orchards and windbreak rows of poplar far outnumber vines. The valley gets about seven inches of rain a year and humidity tops out around 30 percent, tempered only by the Neuquen and Limay rivers running down from the Andes to form the Rio Negro on its