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.
“Undoubtedly one of the best Chardonnays produced in America today, this is a gripping, textured wine with a richness of extraction offset by striking freshness. Stone fruit and pear flavours are cutting and pure, limned in subtle, savoury smoke and a gorgeously briney streak of minerality. A powerful, stately wine that should improve through this next decade and hold further still.” — Decanter on the 2019 00 Wines VGW Chardonnay
The 2023 Seven Springs Vineyard Chardonnay continues a tradition of excellence from one of the Willamette Valley’s most iconic and historically significant sites.
A blend of Dijon clone Chardonnay and Heritage Wente clone Chardonnay to produce an “Extra Good” wine.
