2016 Chacra Treinta y Dos (1932) Pinot Noir Patagonia

Treinta y Dos, which takes its name from the year the vineyard was planted, is an exceptionally deep and intense Pinot Noir. The wine clearly demonstrates the best of the Pinot Noir grape, but is also a reflection of the terroir and the unique microclimate of Patagonia. The wine is d Treinta y Dos, which takes its name from the year the vineyard was planted (1932), is an exceptionally deep and intense Pinot Noir. The wine clearly demonstrates the best of the Pinot Noir grape, but is also a reflection of the terroir and the unique microclimate of Patagonia. The 2018 vintage won the award for best wine of 2020 on James Suckling's list of "Top 100 Wines" - the wine also scored 100P from the same critic. Behind Bodega Chacra is Piero Incisa della Rocchetta, grandson of Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, the man who created Sassicaia, known by experts as Italy's best wine and perhaps one of the world's 10 best wines. Piero is today the export manager of the family company, Tenuta San Guido, the vineyard where Sassicaia is made. His great passion, however, is Bodega Chacra, where he can grow the Pinot Noir grape, which he personally values very highly. During a visit to his good friend, Hans Vinding-Diers, Piero tasted a Pinot Noir from Río Negro in Patagonia, which Hans Vinding-Diers had made on a trial basis. Piero realised that the potential to make great and unique Pinot Noir wines in Patagonia was there, and the hunt for the right vineyard was on. In 2002 Piero found a vineyard with ungrafted Pinot Noir vines planted in 1932, Bodega Chacra was born.