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James Suckling
A very complex and powerful chardonnay with ripe-nectarine, lemon and grapefruit aromas, laced with cool, stony notes, as well as flint and attractively restrained oak. The palate has mouthwatering, intense fruit with such attractively concentrated, pithy-grapefruit and white-peach flavors with beautifully wound flesh that pervades the crisp, long and gently toasty finish. Really superb chardonnay.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Chardonnay EGW is savory and powerful this vintage. Scents of peach and quince paste are accented by tones of mushroom, flint, dried acacia and roasted almonds. The medium-bodied palate features generous, concentrated fruit. Its satiny, mouth-coating texture is refreshed by energetic acidity, and it has a very long, flavorful finish loaded with spicy accents.
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Wine Enthusiast
Double Zero is reaching for the stars with its impressive lineup of eight Chardonnays. The initials here stand for “extra good white,” and this juicy, fresh, leesy and creamy wine lives up to the moniker. It's loaded with rich fruit flavors of apple, pear and white peach, amplified with barrel time highlights of caramel and toffee. The robust and well-integrated flavors roll into a lengthy, firmly etched finish, with an intriguing hint of pine needle.
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Gracefully layered, with a simmering intensity that highlights apple skin, lemon verbena and stony mineral accents.
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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.
One of Pinot Noir's most successful New World outposts, the Willamette Valley is the largest and most important AVA in Oregon. With a continental climate moderated by the influence of the Pacific Ocean, it is perfect for cool-climate viticulture and the production of elegant wines.
Mountain ranges bordering three sides of the valley, particularly the Chehalem Mountains, provide the option for higher-elevation vineyard sites.
The valley's three prominent soil types (volcanic, sedimentary and silty, loess) make it unique and create significant differences in wine styles among its vineyards and sub-AVAs. The iron-rich, basalt-based, Jory volcanic soils found commonly in the Dundee Hills are rich in clay and hold water well; the chalky, sedimentary soils of Ribbon Ridge, Yamhill-Carlton and McMinnville encourage complex root systems as vines struggle to search for water and minerals. In the most southern stretch of the Willamette, the Eola-Amity Hills sub-AVA soils are mixed, shallow and well-drained. The Hills' close proximity to the Van Duzer Corridor (which became its own appellation as of 2019) also creates grapes with great concentration and firm acidity, leading to wines that perfectly express both power and grace.
Though Pinot noir enjoys the limelight here, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay also thrive in the Willamette. Increasing curiosity has risen recently in the potential of others like Grüner Veltliner, Chenin Blanc and Gamay.