2024 Parcelario Chardonnay, Zorzal
Gualtallary, Valle de Uco, Mendoza, Argentina
“Stone and Silence”
This is Chardonnay at its most precise and uncompromising. The 2024 Parcelario opens with a mineral-driven nose, all graphite, crushed rock and mountain herbs, with fruit sitting quietly in the background like a distant echo of citrus and white orchard skin. It feels elemental, shaped more by place than by winemaking.
On the palate, it is agile and alive, entering with real nerve and tension. There is a pulse of salinity and electric acidity that gives the wine a sense of length far beyond its physical weight. Texture builds gradually, helped by twelve months of ageing, mostly in second-use 500 litre French oak and partly in concrete egg, adding quiet depth without blurring the edges. The finish is long, chalky and almost eternal, lingering on stone, citrus oil and a cool, volcanic whisper.
For when you want Chardonnay that challenges as much as it charms.
Pairs with grilled turbot, scallops with brown butter, aged Comté or simply time and attention.
If this wine were a place, it would be standing high above the valley floor, wind in your face and nothing but sky and rock around you.
Producer
Zorzal’s Parcelario range represents the pinnacle of their site-driven philosophy. Founded by the Michelini brothers in 2008, the estate sits at 1,350 metres in Gualtallary at the foot of the Tupungato Volcano. These wines are crafted from single high-altitude parcels, capturing the distinct character of each vineyard and vintage with minimal intervention. Through native fermentations, careful oxidative pressing and patient élevage, Zorzal places terroir above technique, producing some of the most compelling, mineral and forward-thinking wines in modern Argentina.
Whats in the bottle
100% Chardonnay