Bodega Chacra 'Treinta y Dos 32' Pinot Noir, Rio Negro, Argentina 2022 Sauternes Like the great Bordeaux wines

Like the great Bordeaux wines that first inspired Donn Chappellet

Big structure and dusty tannins

Located in a remote corner of southeastern Tuscany

Tadeo Bouchardt's winemaking journey

Looking just a few miles east and up-stream from that ancient stony river bed

Bodega Chacra 'Treinta y Dos 32' Pinot Noir, Rio Negro, Argentina 2022 Sauternes Like the great Bordeaux winesChacra was created in 2004 by Piero Incisa della Rocchetta, whose grandfather started the legendary Sassicaia Winery in Tuscany.. This vineyard of gnarled and ungrafted Pinot Noir vines was later added to a neighboring vineyard of vines planted in 1955. With these old vineyards, ostensibly in the middle of nowhere, Piero has created a winery that exists outside of the usual New World vs. Old World debate and is redefining what is possible with Pinot