From Site 01, Royer Vineyard
2024 Royer Vineyard
Tensile, dense and regal. Gunflint, barrel smoke, golden spices, lemon oil, lime curd, graham, ginger.
150 cases12.7%
2024 · South Salem Hills
Blue Heron Farm
From Site 02, Blue Heron Farm →
Blue Heron Farm
Chardonnay
From Site 02, Blue Heron Farm →
Lithe, full and layered, Blue Heron shows bright stone fruit, key lime cream, and lemon oil intermingling with savory notes of wet minerals, yellow spices, and mixed florals.
Production150 cases
Alcohol13%
BottledMarch 2026
ShipsFall 2026
In the vineyard
Fruit
- Vineyard
- Blue Heron, South Salem Hills
- Soil
- Ritner, Witzel, and Nekia
- Elevation
- 1,000 feet
- Aspect
- Primarily south facing
- Planted
- 2019
- Farming
- Regenerative
- Clones
- Multiple
- Harvest date
- 10 October 2024
- Yield
- 2.5 tons/acre
- Picking
- Ripe, not overripe
In the cellar
Making
- Must handling
- Browned 6 hours before 40ppm SO₂
- Fermentation
- Ambient, on full solids within 4 days, finished within 18 days
- Vessel
- 51% new French oak barrels, 49% old French oak puncheons
- New oak
- 51%
- Malolactic
- Very slow, completed late August 2025
- Élevage
- French oak, then stainless with solids for a second winter on lees
- Lees stirring
- Stirred once in April and once in June 2025
- Fining / filtration
- No fining or filtration
In the bottle
Numbers
- Production
- 150 cases
- Alcohol
- 13%
- pH
- 3.19
- Total acidity
- 6.3 g/L
- Residual sugar
- 0.4 g/L
- Malic acid
- <0.05 g/L
- Volatile acidity
- 0.47 g/L
- Bottling date
- March 2026
- Closure
- Icon Ultra Premium 49X26mm Natural
Hand Selected
Tasting
The note
Lithe, full and layered, Blue Heron shows bright stone fruit, key lime cream, and lemon oil intermingling with savory notes of wet minerals, yellow spices, and mixed florals.
Stone fruit
Key lime cream
Lemon oil
Wet minerals
Yellow spices
Mixed florals
At the table
Serving
- Serve at
- Cellar Temperature
- Decant
- Recommended
- Drinking window
- Now–18 years
- Cellaring
- Cool, dark cellar or wine fridge
The site
Blue Heron Farm
Family-owned, regeneratively farmed and sheep-mowed. The soils are alive in this emerging site; ripe phenolics, tension and clarity.
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Coiled, vibrant and firm. Lemon curd, mint, key lime, yellow spices, wet minerals, struck flint.
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