Eyrie Estate Chardonnay 2017

Chardonnay from Dundee Hills, Willamette Valley, Oregon

93 James
Suckling
92 Robert
Parker

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Product Details

Varietal

Chardonnay

Region

Dundee Hills, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Producer

Eyrie

Vintage

2017

Size

750ML

ABV

12.71%

Features

Boutique

Green Wine

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Winemaker Notes

The Chardonnay estate is a barrel selection. Since each barrel ferments with its own yeast and ages at its own rate, each barrel becomes very distinct. Before bottling, the winemaker tastes each barrel. Those barrels which speak to the longest aging potential become the Original Vines Reserve. This estate, on the other hand, is blended from those barrels which offer the most immediate pleasure.

Professional Ratings

93 James Suckling
There’s a bright array of spiced pears and peaches on offer here with a core of citrus and melon flavors, served up in ripe, complete mode. Holds well. Very youthful. Some citrus and yellow pears to close. Drink over the next five years.
92 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Estate Chardonnay has an inviting nose of honeyed apples, Meyer lemon and orange peel, crushed almonds and hazelnut with touches of clotted cream, jasmine and hay. It’s medium bodied with a silky texture and intense core of savory fruits, lifted by tangy acidity and finishing long. Rating: 92+

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Eyrie

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Eyrie David Lett with first vines 1965 Winery Image

The Eyrie Vineyards was founded by David Lett in 1965. He arrived convinced that the valley would offer Pinot noir its best home outside Burgundy, and planted the region’s first grapes in the modern era.

Jason Lett continues Eyrie’s innovative legacy today, introducing new varieties and creating what the Wine Advocate calls “some of the most fascinating wines on the planet.”

Chardonnay Wine

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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.

Dundee Hills Wine

Willamette Valley, Oregon

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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.

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