diff --git a/vortex-array/src/array/chunked/canonical.rs b/vortex-array/src/array/chunked/canonical.rs
index 366c0e7b1f..fff2df73d2 100644
--- a/vortex-array/src/array/chunked/canonical.rs
+++ b/vortex-array/src/array/chunked/canonical.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use arrow_buffer::{BooleanBufferBuilder, Buffer, MutableBuffer};
 use itertools::Itertools;
-use vortex_dtype::Nullability::NonNullable;
-use vortex_dtype::{DType, PType, StructDType};
+use vortex_dtype::{DType, Nullability, PType, StructDType};
 use vortex_error::{vortex_bail, vortex_err, ErrString, VortexResult};
 
 use crate::array::chunked::ChunkedArray;
@@ -11,7 +10,8 @@ use crate::array::primitive::PrimitiveArray;
 use crate::array::struct_::StructArray;
 use crate::array::varbin::VarBinArray;
 use crate::array::BoolArray;
-use crate::compute::unary::try_cast;
+use crate::compute::slice;
+use crate::compute::unary::{scalar_at_unchecked, try_cast};
 use crate::validity::Validity;
 use crate::variants::StructArrayTrait;
 use crate::{
@@ -210,29 +210,39 @@ fn pack_varbin(chunks: &[Array], validity: Validity, dtype: &DType) -> VortexRes
     let len: usize = chunks.iter().map(|c| c.len()).sum();
     let mut offsets = Vec::with_capacity(len + 1);
     offsets.push(0);
-    let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+    let mut data_bytes = Vec::new();
 
     for chunk in chunks {
         let chunk = chunk.clone().into_varbin()?;
         let offsets_arr = try_cast(
             chunk.offsets().into_primitive()?.array(),
-            &DType::Primitive(PType::I32, NonNullable),
+            &DType::Primitive(PType::I32, Nullability::NonNullable),
         )?
         .into_primitive()?;
-        let offset_adjustment = *offsets.last().expect("offsets has at least one element");
+
+        let first_offset_value: usize =
+            usize::try_from(&scalar_at_unchecked(offsets_arr.array(), 0))?;
+        let last_offset_value: usize = usize::try_from(&scalar_at_unchecked(
+            offsets_arr.array(),
+            offsets_arr.len() - 1,
+        ))?;
+        let primitive_bytes =
+            slice(&chunk.bytes(), first_offset_value, last_offset_value)?.into_primitive()?;
+        data_bytes.extend_from_slice(primitive_bytes.buffer());
+
+        let adjustment_from_previous = *offsets.last().expect("offsets has at least one element");
         offsets.extend(
             offsets_arr
                 .maybe_null_slice::<i32>()
                 .iter()
                 .skip(1)
-                .map(|off| *off + offset_adjustment),
+                .map(|off| off + adjustment_from_previous - first_offset_value as i32),
         );
-        buffer.extend_from_slice(chunk.bytes().into_primitive()?.buffer());
     }
 
     VarBinArray::try_new(
         PrimitiveArray::from(offsets).into_array(),
-        PrimitiveArray::from(buffer).into_array(),
+        PrimitiveArray::from(data_bytes).into_array(),
         dtype.clone(),
         validity,
     )
@@ -240,40 +250,42 @@ fn pack_varbin(chunks: &[Array], validity: Validity, dtype: &DType) -> VortexRes
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use rstest::{fixture, rstest};
-    use vortex_dtype::Nullability;
+    use vortex_dtype::{DType, Nullability};
 
-    use super::*;
-
-    #[fixture]
-    fn binary_array() -> Array {
-        let values = PrimitiveArray::from(
-            "hello worldhello world this is a long string"
-                .as_bytes()
-                .to_vec(),
-        );
-        let offsets = PrimitiveArray::from(vec![0, 11, 44]);
+    use crate::accessor::ArrayAccessor;
+    use crate::array::builder::VarBinBuilder;
+    use crate::array::chunked::canonical::pack_varbin;
+    use crate::array::VarBinArray;
+    use crate::compute::slice;
+    use crate::validity::Validity;
 
-        VarBinArray::try_new(
-            offsets.into_array(),
-            values.into_array(),
-            DType::Utf8(Nullability::NonNullable),
-            Validity::NonNullable,
-        )
-        .unwrap()
-        .into_array()
+    fn varbin_array() -> VarBinArray {
+        let mut builder = VarBinBuilder::<i32>::with_capacity(4);
+        builder.push_value("foo");
+        builder.push_value("bar");
+        builder.push_value("baz");
+        builder.push_value("quak");
+        builder.finish(DType::Utf8(Nullability::NonNullable))
     }
 
-    #[rstest]
-    fn test_pack_varbin(binary_array: Array) {
-        let arrays = vec![binary_array.clone(), binary_array.clone()];
-        let packed_array = pack_varbin(
-            &arrays,
+    #[test]
+    pub fn pack_sliced_varbin() {
+        let array1 = slice(varbin_array().array(), 1, 3).unwrap();
+        let array2 = slice(varbin_array().array(), 2, 4).unwrap();
+        let packed = pack_varbin(
+            &[array1, array2],
             Validity::NonNullable,
             &DType::Utf8(Nullability::NonNullable),
         )
         .unwrap();
-
-        assert_eq!(packed_array.len(), binary_array.len() * arrays.len());
+        assert_eq!(packed.len(), 4);
+        let values = packed
+            .with_iterator(|iter| {
+                iter.flatten()
+                    .map(|v| unsafe { String::from_utf8_unchecked(v.to_vec()) })
+                    .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            })
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(values, &["bar", "baz", "baz", "quak"]);
     }
 }
diff --git a/vortex-array/src/array/varbin/builder.rs b/vortex-array/src/array/varbin/builder.rs
index 121f4db87f..f1018b588f 100644
--- a/vortex-array/src/array/varbin/builder.rs
+++ b/vortex-array/src/array/varbin/builder.rs
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ impl<O: NativePType> VarBinBuilder<O> {
     }
 
     #[inline]
-    pub fn push_value(&mut self, value: &[u8]) {
+    pub fn push_value(&mut self, value: impl AsRef<[u8]>) {
+        let slice = value.as_ref();
         self.offsets
-            .push(O::from(self.data.len() + value.len()).unwrap());
-        self.data.extend_from_slice(value);
+            .push(O::from(self.data.len() + slice.len()).unwrap());
+        self.data.extend_from_slice(slice);
         self.validity.append_non_null();
     }