Eyrie Estate Chardonnay 2020
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Fresh citrus and pear flavors, sublime texture, a quiet mineral pulse. Stunning.
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This young bottling manages to walk a line between youthful raciness and a breadth that defines the winery’s house style, combining generous pineapple scents and toasted nuts with a lemony, pulse-quickening acidity…generous and comforting at first, then roused by sneaky acids.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Chardonnay Estate has savory aromas of yellow apples, beeswax and roasted almonds. The light-bodied palate has an alluring, satiny texture, savory flavors and a long, refreshingly tangy finish.
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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.