Suckling: “it shows all the depth and minerality of a $100 Burgundian counterpart.”

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2021 El Enemigo Chardonnay Mendoza Argentina 750 ml

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Legendary Drive and Focus, Legendary Chardonnay

We always know Alejandro Vigil’s El Enemigo Chardonnay will be outstanding. 

First, the 100-point winemaker helms the iconic Bodega Catena Zapata as his day job. Second, a significant percentage of this wine’s fruit comes from the Adrianna Vineyard in Gualtallary, where Catena makes a pair of $125 Chardonnays. 

So expectations are always high—yet the 2021 El Enemigo STILL blasts past them. James Suckling named this wine the #1 Chardonnay of his Top 100 Value Wines of 2023 and #6 wine overall, awarding it 97 points, declaring “it shows all the depth and minerality of a $100 Burgundian counterpart.”

Vigil stands out among an increasingly competitive Argentine wine community because of his relentless drive and fanatical attention to detail. There’s seemingly no labor he won’t undertake in pursuit of quality.

This Chardonnay is born from drama, yet emerges with elegance and grace. Grown on brutally harsh plots nearly a mile above sea level, the vines struggle through exceptionally rocky soils, fighting off winds that can top 60 miles per hour. Nothing comes easy—and the grapes that grow here produce wines with impressive character.

After pressing, Vigil ferments and ages most of the juice in large 500L casks, only a small portion of which are new. He also allows some of the barrels to develop flor—a thin layer of wild yeast—to coax out additional complexity, yet the wine remains bright and energetic. That’s a highly technical, difficult process, and a rarity among Argentine Chardonnays.