Pioneers of Black Chardonnay in Oregon

“A New World Chardonnay approaching perfection.” — Decanter

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Resurrecting a traditional method of low-sulfur winemaking.

At 00 Wines, the Black Chardonnay method reimagines a time-honored old Burgundian technique from before the introduction of modern gentle machine pressing and sulfur additions, to coax extraordinary depth, texture, and longevity from cool-climate Chardonnay.

00 Wines founder Chris Hermann resurrected this method in Oregon in 2015 with the winery’s first Chardonnay, the VGW. In an interview with Katherine Cole in Seven-Fifty Daily, he coined the term Black Chardonnay to give a name to this long-forgotten winemaking process for modern wine drinkers to understand.

Since the first VGW release in 2017, Chris has inspired a new generation of winemakers in America to reconsider the role of extraction and sulfur in white winemaking.

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