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Bodega Chacra is located in the Rio Negro Valley of northern Patagonia,620 miles south of Buenos Aires, roughly equidistant west to east fromthe Andes Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. The region possesses a dryand arid climate and is protected by a natural barrier of thesurrounding desert. The air is pristine and without pollution, creatingtremendous luminosity and purity of sunlight. The seasons are preciselydefined, with hot summers, cold winters and mild springs and autumns.This consistency of climate creates a consistency of wine from vintageto vintage.
In 2004, Piero Incisa della Rocchetta purchased thefirst of vineyard land, which is now Bodega Chacra. At the time thiswas a property with an existing, though abandoned, vineyard plantedover seventy years ago. Piero was called from of his multigenerational,Italian winemaking family to the southern hemisphere, compelled by thegoal to produce world-class Pinot Noir from uncharted and untestedterritory.
This singular vineyard at Bodega Chacra is of thick,pure, gnarled Pinot Noir vines, plants from their own rootstockproducing tiny bunches of small, concentrated berries which areharvested by hand. No automated mechanization is used at any stage ofthe production process. The grapes are refrigerated to preserve thefreshness of their fruit, and then hand de-stemmed and sorted beforemoving to cement tanks for fermentation.
Winemaking continues atBodega Chacra in the most natural manner and the first wine vinified atthe estate is �Trienta y Dos.� When the alcoholic fermentation iscomplete, the wine is transferred off the skins into small French oakbarrels in the most gentle manner possible, by gravity, withoutpressing or filtering. Bottling takes place around the first week ofMarch without fining or filtration. The objective is for the oak, thefruit and the nuances of the soil to marry perfectly so that influenceof the wood is nearly imperceptible in the wine, and the vine andcharacter of the land are expressed to their fullest.
Followingthe acquisition of the 1932 vineyard, and preceding the 2006 vintage,Piero discovered and purchased two additional old vine Pinot Noirvineyards. This acquisition allowed for the making of two additionalBodega Chacra wines. The first, from a vineyard planted in 1955, isreferred to �Cinquenta y Cinco�. The second wine called �Barda� (�TheRidge�) is a blend of �declassified� grapes from the single-vineyardwines coupled with grapes from a fifteen years old vineyard which islocated on the original 1932 property.
- Country: Argentina
- Region: Rio Negro
- Sub region/Appellation: Patagonia
Bodega Chacra is located in the Rio Negro Valley of northern Patagonia, 620 miles south of Buenos Aires, roughly equidistant west to east from the Andes Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. The region possesses a dry
and arid climate and is protected by a natural barrier of the surrounding desert. The air is pristine and without pollution, creating tremendous luminosity and purity of sunlight. The seasons are precisely defined, with hot summers, cold winters and mild springs and autumns. This consistency of climate creates a consistency of wine from vintage to vintage.In 2004, Piero Incisa della Rocchetta purchased the first of vineyard land, which is now Bodega Chacra. At the time this was a property with an existing, though abandoned, vineyard planted over seventy years ago. Piero was called from of his multigenerational, Italian winemaking family to the southern hemisphere, compelled by the goal to produce world-class Pinot Noir from uncharted and untested territory.This singular vineyard at Bodega Chacra is of thick, pure, gnarled Pinot Noir vines, plants from their own rootstock
producing tiny bunches of small, concentrated berries which are harvested by hand. No automated mechanization is used at any stage of the production process.
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Patagonia? 
