Stoller Reserve Chardonnay 2016
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Expressing aromatics of lemon curd, brioche and flint, the palate meets the nose with a citrus vibrancy and reveals a luxurious mouthfeel due to extended lees contact and balanced use of oak.
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James Suckling
This supple, fleshy chardonnay has excellent richness of fruit, offering creamy lemon curd, peaches and nectarines. There’s a smooth and fresh feel to the palate with limes and lemons delivering a plush and even-paced, long and fresh finish. Excellent clarity here.
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Wine Enthusiast
Consistent with past releases of the winery's reserve, this uses the estate's oldest Dijon vines and is barrel fermented and aged for almost a year in 20% new French oak. It's firm and spicy, with flavors of yellow plum, white peach and phenolic highlights of peach skin and grapefruit zest. The time in barrel does not add significant flavors of toast, but has helped to smooth out the mouthfeel. Drink now through 2025.
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Wine Spectator
Vibrant and fresh, with generous tropical fruit and pear flavors accented by mineral and spice notes.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Reserve Chardonnay features layers of pastry with baked apple, clotted cream, Meyer lemon and hay. Medium to full-bodied, the fruit is fresh on the palate with hints of green apple complemented by honey and toasty notes, refreshing acidity and a long, creamy finish.
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Wine & Spirits
A generous chardonnay, this balances its sumptuous lees and oak notes with crisp flavors of lemon and apple. It feels harmonious, ending with a caramel richness.
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Located in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley in the Dundee Hills AVA, Stoller uniquely offers world class wines and genuine hospitality in a stunning setting. Owners Bill and Cathy Stoller purchased the nearly 400 acre property, which was originally his family’s turkey farm, in 1993 and crafted the winery’s inaugural Pinot Noir in 2001. Their vision of innovation blending vineyard stewardship with environmental sustainability was recognized in 2006 when Stoller became the first LEED® certified winemaking facility in the United States attaining the rare Gold level certification. Today, the winery features panoramic views including Mt. Hood, ample outdoor space for relaxation and guest houses.
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.
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.