2017 VGW - Chardonnay 1.5L
"This offers ripe-pineapple and lime-juice aromas, as well as white peaches and wet stones, in a very expressive mode. The palate has a very smooth core of mellow, cashew nuts and white peaches with some very assertive and dense, fleshy-peach and praline notes to close. Drink or hold."
97 points - Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com Oregon 2019 Tasting Report
Produced from a variety of Eola-Amity Hills vineyards including Seven Springs, Von Oehsen, Anahata, and just south of the Eola-Amity Hills in the south Salem Hills Open Claim, the VGW "Very Good White" is the annual 100% Willamette Valley Chardonnay blend that is the entry into the world of 00 Wines Chardonnay.
51 cases (of 6 Magnums per case) produced.
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Wine Specs
Vintage
2017
Varietal
Chardonnay
Appellation
Willamette Valley
Acid
5.9
pH
3.29
Aging
17 months 20% new French oak barrels
Bottling Date
March 4, 2019
Alcohol %
13.0
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
A nose of lemon peel, slate, and minerals with a smooth palate of a fine suede and pear skin and a lengthy finish.
Production Notes
"Black Chardonnay" method - pre-press crush with 12 hour skin contact, heavy long pressing with no sulfites added to the juice, short settling before going into barrel, ambient yeast fermentation, minimal intervention, no bâtonnage, minimal pre-bottling sulfites, minimal filtering / fining.