From Site 02, Blue Heron Farm
2024 Blue Heron Farm
Lithe, full and layered. Bright stone fruit, key lime cream, lemon oil, wet minerals, mixed florals.
150 cases13%
2024 · Eola-Amity Hills
Royer Vineyard
From Site 01, Royer Vineyard →
Royer Vineyard
Chardonnay
From Site 01, Royer Vineyard →
Tensile, dense and powerful, Royer presents as firm and regal with bright acidity, unfurling aromatics and flavors of gunflint, barrel smoke, golden spices, flourishes of lemon oil, lime curd, graham and ginger.
Production150 cases
Alcohol12.7%
BottledMarch 2026
ShipsFall 2026
In the vineyard
Fruit
- Vineyard
- Royer, Eola-Amity Hills
- Soil
- Volcanic basalt, Jory, and Nekia/Witzel
- Elevation
- 600–700 feet
- Aspect
- Windy southwest-facing slopes
- Planted
- 2016
- Farming
- Organic / sustainable
- Clones
- Heritage and Dijon 548
- Harvest date
- 27 September 2024
- Yield
- 2.8 tons/acre
- Picking
- Ripe, not overripe
In the cellar
Making
- Must handling
- Split three ways: browned 6 hours before 33ppm SO₂; a smaller lot kept green with 50ppm SO₂; the hardest pressing left to blacken with no SO₂
- Fermentation
- Ambient, on full solids within 2–6 days, finished within 10 days
- Vessel
- 87% new French oak barrels, 13% old French oak puncheons
- New oak
- 87%
- Malolactic
- Late October 2024 to August 2025
- Élevage
- 11 months in wood, then stainless with solids for a second winter on lees
- Lees stirring
- Slower barrels stirred once in April and June 2025
- Fining / filtration
- No fining or filtration
In the bottle
Numbers
- Production
- 150 cases
- Alcohol
- 12.7%
- pH
- 3.20
- Total acidity
- 6.2 g/L
- Residual sugar
- 0.3 g/L
- Malic acid
- 0.17 g/L
- Volatile acidity
- 0.49 g/L
- Bottling date
- March 2026
- Closure
- Icon Ultra Premium 49X26mm Natural
Hand Selected
Tasting
The note
Tensile, dense and powerful, Royer presents as firm and regal with bright acidity, unfurling aromatics and flavors of gunflint, barrel smoke, golden spices, flourishes of lemon oil, lime curd, graham and ginger.
Gunflint
Barrel smoke
Golden spices
Lemon oil
Lime curd
Graham
Ginger
At the table
Serving
- Serve at
- Cellar Temperature
- Decant
- Recommended
- Drinking window
- Now–18 years
- Cellaring
- Cool, dark cellar or wine fridge
The site
Royer Vineyard
Fifteen acres, thirteen in Chardonnay, with diverse French and heritage clonal material bringing nuance and complexity.
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Chiseled and long. Grapefruit curd, lime leaf, oyster shell minerality, white spices, lemon verbena.
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Coiled, vibrant and firm. Lemon curd, mint, key lime, yellow spices, wet minerals, struck flint.
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