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Taste Bodegas Chacra

Cost: $15

Wednesday, October 14 · 5–7pm · The Wine Bar at Flatiron SF

Piero Incisa della Rocchetta grew up in wine royalty. His grandfather, the Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, created Sassicaia and proved that great wine could come from the Tuscan coast. In the early 2000s, Piero tasted a Pinot Noir blind in New York. It was pure, mineral, and full of energy, and to his surprise, it came from Patagonia. So he went looking.

In the Río Negro Valley, halfway between the Andes and the Atlantic, he found an abandoned vineyard of Pinot Noir planted in 1932 on its original, ungrafted roots. It was yielding so little fruit that the owner tried to talk him out of buying it. He bought it anyway, and it became the heart of Bodega Chacra. He later added neighboring old-vine parcels from 1955 and 1967, farmed everything organically and biodynamically, and named the top wines after the years their vines were planted: Treinta y Dos and Cincuenta y Cinco.

It's an unlikely place for great Pinot Noir: flat desert, a few inches of rain a year, and more apple and pear orchards than vines. But the dry climate, cold nights, and old vines give wines that are saline, delicate, and floral, often compared to red Burgundy. Chacra now makes Chardonnay too, with help from Meursault legend Jean-Marc Roulot.

$15 · Drop-in, no reservation required

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