Adrianna Vineyard White Bones Chardonnay 2020 is perfect, truly perfect, from its name, story and winemaking right through to what is in the bottle. This Chardonnay from Gualtallary at 1,450 metres combines freshness with generous fruit in a wine of remarkable pedigree, worthy of comparison with legendary white Burgundies. All of the above earned it near-perfect scores: 99 points from both James Suckling and Robert Parker!
Did we mention the name and the story? White Bones is no random name. Nothing is random at Catena, after all. In the foothills of the Andes, at an altitude of almost 1,500 metres, within the Adrianna Vineyard, there are specific vine rows growing on limestone soils scattered with fossilised animal bones, remnants of a river that flowed through the area thousands of years ago.
Then there is the masterful winemaking of Alejandro Vigil. The wine is fermented in French oak barrels with indigenous yeasts and subsequently aged for 12 to 16 months in second, third and fourth-use barrels. Vigil’s clever touch, which gives the wine its extraordinary freshness and tension, is that only part of the wine undergoes malolactic conversion rather than the entire blend. The result is a wine that is both powerful and refined, with a firm structure and complex character capable of ageing beautifully.
Chardonnay "White Bones" 2020 Adrianna Vineyard Catena is definitely a wine you must try!
