Lavinea Elton Vineyard Chardonnay 2016

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Region

Producer

Vintage
2016

Size
750ML

ABV
13.6%

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Winemaker Notes

Pale straw in color with chartreuse and silver edge, the nose opens with mineral, wet rocks and umami notes laced with citrus and orange cream soda, and soft anise. The entry is delicate on the palate with a light creamy core, the layers of pears, white peaches, and honeysuckle flavors compete on the flinty and mineral finish. An elegant and long-lasting wine, with fresh layers upon layers which may demand another glass.

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    This has a restrained array of lemon and chalky mineral elements on the nose, leading to a palate that has a long, supple and succulent core of fresh and zesty, crisply focused citrus and white-peach flavor. Long and impressive. Drink now.
  • 93

    From a 1983 planting of two clones of chardonnay, this savory white is leesy, dense and structured, with scents of roast almond and bread crust surrounding a focused, tart pear core of fruit. It carries itself with poise, tight and firm, with a dusty mineral texture that may remind you of Chablis. (303 cases)

  • 93
    COMMENTARY: The 2016 Lavinea Chardonnay is an excellent effort. TASTING NOTES: This wine is complete in every way. Enjoy its impressive aromas and flavors of savory spices, earth, a bit of the Old World with a piquant-spiced chicken stew of brown rice and wild mushrooms. (Tasted: November 1, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
  • 92
    Fresh and deep, this offers ripe fruit flavors of apple, Asian pear and white melon. It was fermented in barrel with native yeast and 20% new oak. The structure, as with all Lavinea wines, is perfectly balanced for optimal tension and texture.

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Lavinea’s definition means “of the vineyard.” Lavenia is committed to advancing the reputation of Oregon Pinot Noir and Chardonnay by bringing to the attention of the world the Willamette Valley’s finest vineyard sites. Encompassing 5 vineyards; Tualatin Estate, Lazy River, Nysa, Elton, and Temperance Hill.

Tualatin Estate Vineyard, established in 1973, is one of the oldest and most respected vineyard sites in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Wine grapes from this 145-acre vineyard have produced world-renowned wines for over 40 years. Tualatin is the only vineyard to have won the Best of Show for both the red and white categories at the London International Wine Competition in the same year. Tualatin’s Pinot Noir captured the Governor’s Trophy, Oregon’s most prestigious wine award, two years consecutively in 1994 and 1995. This is a feat unduplicated by any Oregon winery.

Lazy River Vineyard lies on the steep south facing slope of Mt. Richmond in the Northwest Willamette Valley, three and one half miles from Yamhill, Oregon. From the top of the hill one looks down to the mixed terrain, interlocking puzzle pieces of woods, rolling meadows, grape vines and ponds. The land is separated north from south by a meandering small river, which by August is typically dry.

Nysa Vineyard sits at 620-780 feet elevation in the Dundee Hills of Oregon’s northern Willamette Valley. Nysa spans 41 acres of volcanic Jory soil with basalt bedrock 8 to 12 feet below the surface. The high percentage of clay combines with soil depth to hold moisture late into the season, permitting dry farming.

In 2007 Elton Vineyards was named one of Oregon’s top ten vineyards by Wine Press Northwest, and in 2006 Wine & Spirits listed it as one of the five key vineyards in the new Eola-Amity Hills American Viticultural Area. Owned by Dick and Betty O’Brien, the vineyard was planted on land inherited from Betty’s parents, Elton and Peggy Ingram – hence the name Elton Vineyards and the address on Ingram Lane. The first five acres of wine-grapes were planted in 1983 by the OBriens. The vineyard now includes sixty acres planted on east-southeast slopes of the Eola Hills, just west of Hopewell, in Yamhill County, in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA. The elevation rises from 250-500 feet, and the vineyard soil is primarily Jory and Nekkia.

Perched at very high elevation above Bethel Heights Vineyard overlooking down the mouth of the Van Duzer Corridor, Temperance Hill is truly on the fringe of grape growing boundaries. This second generation vineyard was first planted in 1981 by the Koo family on what is believed to be the remnants of an ancient volcano. Dai Crisp, one of the pioneers of organic grape growing in the Willamette Valley took over management in 1999 and began farming it in accordance with Oregon Tilth Organic Certification standards. It’s high and cool location produces wines of exception, providing excellent growing conditions for Pinot Noir often resulting in outstanding wines with tremendous aging potential.  Nicknamed “the staircase vineyard”, we are proud to be amongst the twenty-two wineries that source fruit from this amazing site. We share it’s it’s mid-step, between the blocks of Bergström and Adelsheim, with glorious south facing slopes.

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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.

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Running north to south, adjacent to the Willamette River, the Eola-Amity Hills AVA has shallow and well-drained soils created from ancient lava flows (called Jory), marine sediments, rocks and alluvial deposits. These soils force vine roots to dig deep, producing small grapes with great concentration.

Like in the McMinnville sub-AVA, cold Pacific air streams in via the Van Duzer Corridor and assists the maintenance of higher acidity in its grapes. This great concentration, combined with marked acidity, give the Eola-Amity Hills wines—namely Pinot noir—their distinct character. While the region covers 40,000 acres, no more than 1,400 acres are covered in vine.

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