Product Description:

"100% Willamette Valley Chardonnay. It is a blend of 25% Seven Springs fruit, 25% Durant, 25% AlexEli, and 25% Yamhill. Each lot of Chardonnay was pressed hard as whole clusters and the juice was settled overnight. Some lots were allowed to hyperoxidize before a small dose of SO2 was added, other lots were sulfured in the press pan. After transferring to barrels for fermentation, some lots were chaptalized, others were not. Fermentation commenced with native yeasts and full malolactic conversion occurred. Selected yeasts completed fermentation. After six months in 10% new French oak barrels, the wine was blended and transferred to stainless steel for twelve months. The wine was lightly fined with bentonite before a gentle lenticular filtration." - Winery