Chacra Cincuenta y Cinco Patagonia Pinot Noir 2012... A delightful surprise...

Sometimes, the reasons for my choice of wine can be pretty shallow...or deeply subconcsious... 

Here is a wine that I selected solely based on its label.  Its name, Chacra, made me think of the sanskrit word "charkra" which means "center of energy".  As I was also concentrated on buying other wines for later posts (on malbec & again on Torrontés), I did not pay more attention to the label until I pulled the cork 10 minutes ago...  It turns out that this "Chacra", which apparently means "farm" in the local language, was made biodynamically by an Italian, Piero Incisa Della Rocchetta, grandson of the fabled creator of the Italian Icon Sassicaia...

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