Brick House Cascadia Chardonnay 2017

Chardonnay from Ribbon Ridge, Willamette Valley, Oregon

95 Jeb
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Product Details

Varietal

Chardonnay

Region

Ribbon Ridge, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Producer

Brick House

Vintage

2017

Size

750ML

Features

Green Wine

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Winemaker Notes

Brick House Chardonnays are a homage to the ways of the Old World…specifically the great white wines of Burgundy. Fresh fruit is fully pressed and run into a variety of French oak barrels where it is allowed a native fermentation under the careful eye of the winemaker. Because Brick House strives to reveal the essence of this exceedingly malleable grape, the juice sees few manipulations... a majority of the barrels are seasoned from use year after year... the percentage of new wood is kept decidedly low. The resulting wine completes malolactic fermentation and remains on its gross lees for a full year, after which it is moved to tank for another six months when it is bottled by hand in the farm winery.

Professional Ratings

95 Jeb Dunnuck
The 2017 Chardonnay Cascadia is in a great place and is shining bright, with outstanding energy in its noes of fresh lime, ripe apple, and wet stone. Expressive and long on the palate, it has medium to full body, great focus, and a driving spine of acidity while retaining the silkiness of its texture. It’s in a killer spot now but has plenty of years and life ahead.

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Brick House

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Brick House Vineyards was established in 1990. The vineyards are surrounded by the fruit and hazelnut orchards above the Chehalem Valley, the rolling hills at Brick House compose just such a place. A New World site dedicated to Old World wisdom, and a way of growing grapes proven over a thousand years or more. At Brick House, "organically grown" is more than just a phrase on the labels of the wines. All of the fruit is estate grown. All of it is certified organic.

Chardonnay Wine

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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.

Ribbon Ridge Wine

Willamette Valley, Oregon

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Ribbon Ridge is a regular span of uplifted, marine, sedimentary soils (called Willakenzie), whose highest ridge elevations twist like a ribbon. An early settler from Missouri named Colby Carter noticed this unique topography and gave the region its name in 1865—though it wasn’t declared its own AVA until 140 years later, in 2005. The AVA is enclosed by mountains on all sides between Yamhill-Carlton and the Chehalem Mountains, and is actually part of the larger Chehalem Mountains AVA. Its soils have a finer texture than its neighbors with parent materials composed of sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone. Given its presence of natural aquifers in this five square mile area, most vineyards are actually easily dry farmed!

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