Fosil San Pablo Chardonnay 2021

The 2021 Chardonnay Fósil from San Pablo, Uco Valley was 30% aged in 500-liter barrels, the rest in concrete. Yellow in the glass. The nose offers notes of linden blossom, apple, country herbs and a hint of huacatay, a mountain herb. Dry in the mouth with a chalky feel and expansive freshness that brings nuance and depth; the flow is ethereal and saline while the finish lingers at leisure. The conditions that year really helped to dial up the quality, surpassing previous vintages. A complex, refined expression, tight like the best bands and continuing the austere spirit with which Fósil made its name.

Of all the Malbecs in the Polígonos range, the 2021 Polígonos San Pablo Malbec is the lighter and more reductive one, with a slimmer palate and perhaps aromas of white flowers. This is also the lowest in alcohol and the one coming from the cooler place. It's floral and elegant, perfumed and ethereal, always the last Malbec to be harvested. All the Malbecs ferment and mature in concrete and transmit a sensation of purity and limestone minerality, with citrus and acid berry sensations. Here, they destem all the fruit, which is what they decided on, after many trials and errors, to avoid green notes. This has fine tannins and is medium -bodied, very elegant, fresh and pleasant, pure Malbec juice with no interference. The whole Polígonos range represents very good value, all from owned vineyards that are worked organically but not certified. 23,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2022.