The Clos de Chacras is one of the world's great estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Clos de Chacras wines in Mendoza among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Clos de Chacras wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Clos de Chacras wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Clos de Chacras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of chickpeas spanish style, leek and salmon lasagna or leg of lamb with crust.
On the nose the red wine of Clos de Chacras. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, vanilla or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Clos de Chacras. is a powerful.
World capital of Malbec: powerful, deep reds with blackberry, plum, violet and sweet spice, round tannins and vivid fruit. Also firm Cabernet Sauvignon, supple, juicy Bonarda, aromatic floral white Torrontés. High-altitude vineyards (800-1,700 m) at the foot of the Andes, dry continental climate irrigated by glacial waters. ~80% of Argentine output across 150,000 ha.
Star sub-regions: Luján de Cuyo, Maipú, Valle de Uco. Fleshy, sun-filled wines.
How Clos de Chacras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pasta carbonara almost like the real thing, italian tabbouleh or spinach and goat cheese quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Clos de Chacras. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, earth or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Clos de Chacras. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Dark, full-bodied reds with tight tannins and inky colour, showing aromas of blackberry, violet, gentle spice, liquorice and mentholated balsamic notes. Contributes colour, structure and aromatic freshness to great Médoc blends (Palmer, Léoville-Las Cases) where it remains a minority. Also vinified as a single variety in Spain (La Mancha), California, Australia and Argentina. A late-ripening Bordeaux variety.
How Clos de Chacras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of roast beef with garlic, shrimp risotto with curry or parmesan cream brûlée.
In the past, he was a sort of fraud control agent who had to watch over the quality of merchant wines (he could carry a sword!). His function has evolved towards expertise (it was the brokers who established the famous 1855 classification in Bordeaux) and today he puts the producer in contact with the merchant.
How Clos de Chacras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Deep, velvety reds with an intense purple colour, showing aromas of blackberry, black plum, violet, cocoa and gentle spice. Round tannins, fleshy palate, peppery length. Star of Cahors AOC (Côt, Auxerrois) in France and the absolute signature of Mendoza, Argentina (Uco Valley, Luján de Cuyo). A French South-West variety that became the Argentine emblem after its post-phylloxera decline.
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Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.
