From Site 02, Blue Heron Farm
2025 Blue Heron Farm
A touch of savory funk. Baked lemon curd, wet rocks, roasted nuts, warm minerals, barrel smoke.
150 cases12.8%
2025 · Eola-Amity Hills
Royer Vineyard
From Site 01, Royer Vineyard →
Royer Vineyard
Chardonnay
From Site 01, Royer Vineyard →
Powerful and elegant, Royer's aromas are both savory and sweet: wet rocks, gravel, barrel smoke, peach pit, citrus curd, graham, lemongrass. Vibrant, structured, dense, long.
Production167 cases
Alcohol13.47%
BottledMarch 2027
In the vineyard
Fruit
- Vineyard
- Royer Vineyard, Eola-Amity Hills
- Soil
- Volcanic basalt, Jory, and Nekia/Witzel
- Elevation
- 600–700 feet
- Aspect
- Windy southwest-facing slopes
- Planted
- 2016
- Farming
- Organic and sustainably farmed
- Clones
- Heritage and Dijon 548
- Harvest date
- 20 September 2025
- Yield
- 2.8 tons/acre
- Picking
- Ripe, not overripe
In the cellar
Making
- Must handling
- Fermentation begun on full solids in tank, then 30ppm SO₂
- Fermentation
- Ambient, finished within 20 days
- Vessel
- 52% new French oak puncheons, 48% once-used French oak barrels
- New oak
- 52%
- Malolactic
- Slow to start, completed late 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
- 167 cases
- Alcohol
- 13.47%
- pH
- 3.23
- Total acidity
- 6.5 g/L
- Residual sugar
- 0.2 g/L
- Malic acid
- 0.09 g/L
- Volatile acidity
- 0.47 g/L
- Bottling date
- March 2027 (planned)
- Closure
- Icon Ultra Premium 49X26mm Natural
Hand Selected
Tasting
The note
Powerful and elegant, Royer's aromas are both savory and sweet: wet rocks, gravel, barrel smoke, peach pit, citrus curd, graham, lemongrass. Vibrant, structured, dense, long.
Wet rocks
Gravel
Barrel smoke
Peach pit
Citrus curd
Lemongrass
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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