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 · Dundee Hills
Durant Vineyard
From Site 03, Durant Vineyard →
Durant Vineyard
Chardonnay
From Site 03, Durant Vineyard →
Briny, saline and fresh, Durant has aromas of oyster shells, wet rocks and chalky minerals. There is a subtle richness, poached Asian pear, grapefruit brûlée. Firm, structured, long.
Production150 cases
Alcohol12.89%
BottledMarch 2027
In the vineyard
Fruit
- Vineyard
- Durant Vineyard, Dundee Hills
- Soil
- Jory
- Elevation
- 200–600 feet
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Planted
- From 1973
- Farming
- Organic and sustainably farmed
- Clones
- Dijon
- Harvest date
- 3 September 2025
- Yield
- 2.8 tons/acre
- Picking
- Ripe, not overripe
In the cellar
Making
- Must handling
- Half browned 5 hours before 45ppm SO₂, half unsulfured and allowed to blacken
- Fermentation
- Ambient, on full solids within 4 days, finished in 25 days
- Vessel
- 33% new French oak puncheon, 34% once-used barrels, 33% old French oak puncheons
- New oak
- 33%
- Malolactic
- Ambient, November 2025 to August 2026
- Élevage
- 11 months in wood, then 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
- 12.89%
- pH
- 3.18
- Total acidity
- 6.7 g/L
- Residual sugar
- 0.6 g/L
- Malic acid
- 0.19 g/L
- Volatile acidity
- 0.38 g/L
- Bottling date
- March 2027 (planned)
- Closure
- Icon Ultra Premium 49X26mm Natural
Hand Selected
Tasting
The note
Briny, saline and fresh, Durant has aromas of oyster shells, wet rocks and chalky minerals. There is a subtle richness, poached Asian pear, grapefruit brûlée. Firm, structured, long.
Oyster shell
Wet rocks
Chalky minerals
Asian pear
Grapefruit brûlée
Saline
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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