Hundred Suns 2024 Chardonnay, Old Eight Cut
$32.99 bottle / $185.94($30.99) six-pack
Mostly from the Lone Feather, Carson Hill, and Bryant Creed Vineyards. We sometimes find blending multiple sites into a single cuvee allows each component's individual character to compliment the whole. When it works well you get the sense of a more complete wine - a higher thread count if you will. Leading with lemon and maderine like citrus, saline, and wet stone this wine is acid driven with lean and precise fruit. More taught and Chablisesque than fleshy and flashy. Delicious alone or with oysters on the half shell.
$32.99
Hundred Suns 2024 Gamay Noir, Willamette Valley
$30.99 bottle / $173.94($28.99) six-pack
Is it cheeky to say this is like Cru Willamette? The similarities are apparent with dense red fruits and crunch acidity would be akin to the Cru Morgon in Beaujolais but with that Wilammete Valley volcanic soil signature. Look for crushed raspberry, spice, and perfume. Bright and bouyant with super fine grained tannins. This vintage is a great chance to check out how cool a variety, that's not Pinot Noir, can do here.
$30.99
Hundred Suns 2024 Pinot Noir, Old Eight Cut
$32.99 bottle / $185.94($30.99) six-pack
Lovely Pinot Noir that really shows how classy the 2024 vintage is. Neutral oak barrels really put the pure core of fruit on full display. Strawberries and cherries mingle seamlessly with the silky tannin profile. If ever there was a gateway Pinot this would be it. The value proposition on this wine is excellent and it's just fun to drink.
$32.99
Hundred Suns 2024 Pinot Noir Lone Feather Vineyard, McMinnville
$56.99 bottle / $299.94($49.99) six-pack
The Lone Feather vineyard is planted on rocky basalt soils on the edge of the McMinnville AVA where cool coastal breezes and rocky volcanic soil helped to focus the deep flavors of these own rooted Pommard and Wädenswil clone vines planted in the 1980's. The complex nose offers hints of blue fruits, earth, dried rose petal and a touch of spearamint. The palate is full-bodied as far as Pinot Noir goes, and bursting with pristine blueberry and dark cherry fruit while a touch of earth adds complexity. Velvety tannins ensure this wine will age gracefully for ten plus years. Really nice now, but so much potential.
$56.99
Hundred Suns 2024 Pinot Noir, Own Rooted, Willamette Valley, OR
$69.99 bottle / $389.94($64.99) six-pack
This special bottling is a barrel selection from two distinct vineyards, both planted with ungrafted or "own-rooted" Pinot Noir vines. Due to the root louse, phylloxera, such plantings have become increasingly rare. Marine sedimentary and volcanic soils are like two reverberating and harmonic voices; fully complimentary. Bing cherry, Cara Cara orange, graphite, and saline notes lead to a fully intertwined palate that seems to vibrate throughout the structured and long finish. Super impressive and classy, it's obvious that there is so much potential that will continue to gain in complexity over the next decade.
$69.99
Crowley 2024 Phoebe Chardonnay, Four Winds Vineyard, McMinnville
$59.99 bottle / $329.94($54.99) six-pack
The first of two utterly distinct wines from own-rooted, old-vine Wente clone chardonnay picked at true, rich ripeness, teases with an almost opulent texture (for Oregon that is). Tyson uses a slightly more oxidative than reductive approach to the Phoebe so this wines is up front and expressive from start. Honey, ginger, lemon curd, and lemon blossom. Silky smooth with lees tinged fruit integrate with perfectly balancing acidity. Not plush, but expansive - fully filling the palate.
Very Limited
$59.99
Crowley 2024 Helen Chardonnay, Four Winds Vineyard, McMinnville
$69.99 bottle / $389.94($64.99) six-pack
The Wente block selection beautiful straw yellow mixed with green highlights and a gray metallic edge give a crystalline appearance. Very floral with lemon and lime citrus, honey, and crushed stones. The palate is brilliantly defined with laserbeam acidity and a kiss of reduction. Restrained power coursing through the mid-palate lead to a racy and very refreshing finish. Chardonnay doesn't get much more chic than this. Great now, but better in 3-5 years.
These two wines are exhibit A for why Oregon is being showered with Chardonnay accolades.
Very Limited
$69.99