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 · Dundee Hills
Durant Vineyard
From Site 03, Durant Vineyard →
Durant Vineyard
Chardonnay
From Site 03, Durant Vineyard →
Chiseled and long, Durant pulses with energetic aromatics and flavors of grapefruit curd, lime leaf, oyster shell minerality, white spices, and lemon verbena.
Production150 cases
Alcohol13%
BottledMarch 2026
ShipsFall 2026
In the vineyard
Fruit
- Vineyard
- Durant, Dundee Hills
- Soil
- Jory
- Elevation
- 200–600 feet
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Planted
- From 1973
- Farming
- Family, sustainable
- Clones
- Dijon
- Harvest date
- 10 September 2024
- Yield
- 2.8 tons/acre
- Picking
- Ripe, not overripe
In the cellar
Making
- Must handling
- Browned 6 hours before 35ppm SO₂
- Fermentation
- Ambient, on full solids within 4 days, finished in 12–20 days
- Vessel
- 35% new French oak barrels, 65% old French oak puncheons
- New oak
- 35%
- Malolactic
- Ambient, April to July 2025
- Élevage
- 11 months in wood, then stainless with solids for a second winter on lees
- Lees stirring
- None
- Fining / filtration
- No fining or filtration
In the bottle
Numbers
- Production
- 150 cases
- Alcohol
- 13%
- pH
- 3.29
- Total acidity
- 6 g/L
- Residual sugar
- 0.3 g/L
- Malic acid
- 0.08 g/L
- Volatile acidity
- 0.44 g/L
- Bottling date
- March 2026
- Closure
- Icon Ultra Premium 49X26mm Natural
Hand Selected
Tasting
The note
Chiseled and long, Durant pulses with energetic aromatics and flavors of grapefruit curd, lime leaf, oyster shell minerality, white spices, and lemon verbena.
Grapefruit curd
Lime leaf
Oyster shell
White spices
Lemon verbena
At the table
Serving
- Serve at
- Cellar Temperature
- Decant
- Recommended
- Drinking window
- Now–18 years
- Cellaring
- Cool, dark cellar or wine fridge
The site
Durant Vineyard
A long-respected, family-farmed site giving Chardonnay of purity and lift, with fine orchard fruit and a mineral through line.
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2024 Blue Heron Farm
Lithe, full and layered. Bright stone fruit, key lime cream, lemon oil, wet minerals, mixed florals.
150 cases13%
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2024 Willamette Valley
Coiled, vibrant and firm. Lemon curd, mint, key lime, yellow spices, wet minerals, struck flint.
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