From Site 01, Royer Vineyard
2025 Royer Vineyard
Powerful and elegant. Wet rocks, gravel, barrel smoke, peach pit, citrus curd, graham, lemongrass.
167 cases13.47%
2025 · South Salem Hills
Blue Heron Farm
From Site 02, Blue Heron Farm →
Blue Heron Farm
Chardonnay
From Site 02, Blue Heron Farm →
Blue Heron has a touch of savory funk, with aromas of baked lemon curd, wet rocks, roasted nuts, warm minerals, barrel smoke. A fine structure, firm, gravelly, long.
Production150 cases
Alcohol12.8%
BottledMarch 2027
In the vineyard
Fruit
- Vineyard
- Blue Heron Farm, South Salem Hills
- Soil
- Ritner, Witzel, and Nekia
- Elevation
- 1,000 feet
- Aspect
- Primarily south facing
- Planted
- 2019
- Farming
- Organic and sustainably farmed
- Clones
- Multiple
- Harvest date
- 27 September 2025
- Yield
- 2.5 tons/acre
- Picking
- Ripe, not overripe
In the cellar
Making
- Must handling
- Browned 24 hours before 35ppm SO₂
- Fermentation
- Ambient, on full solids, begun in steel within 4 days, finished within 18 days
- Vessel
- 33% new French oak barrels, 67% old French oak puncheons
- New oak
- 33%
- Malolactic
- Completed December 2025
- Élevage
- Stainless with solids for a second winter on lees
- Lees stirring
- Little to none
- Fining / filtration
- No fining or filtration
In the bottle
Numbers
- Production
- 150 cases
- Alcohol
- 12.8%
- pH
- 3.16
- Total acidity
- 6.7 g/L
- Residual sugar
- 0.9 g/L
- Malic acid
- 0.14 g/L
- Volatile acidity
- 0.41 g/L
- Bottling date
- March 2027 (planned)
- Closure
- Icon Ultra Premium 49X26mm Natural
Hand Selected
Tasting
The note
Blue Heron has a touch of savory funk, with aromas of baked lemon curd, wet rocks, roasted nuts, warm minerals, barrel smoke. A fine structure, firm, gravelly, long.
Baked lemon curd
Wet rocks
Roasted nuts
Warm minerals
Barrel smoke
Savory funk
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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