Winemaker Notes
The 2022 Arthur Chardonnay immediately focuses your attention with a fragrant nose of mandarin peel, vanilla blossoms, and honeysuckle. Nuanced flavors of lemongrass, white flowers, a hint of yuzu, and yellow plum all support the exquisite texture and well-defined structure.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This has a very clean, mineral nose with notes of white stone fruit, jasmine, raw almonds and chalk. Beautiful texture on the palate, so delicate and pure, with a medium body and vivid floral character. Runs long on the palate.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Chardonnay Arthur is soft and alluring on the nose with scents of apricot, cashews, beeswax, chamomile and flint. The medium-bodied palate is plush and inviting. It balances hedonistic, honeyed fruit with a satiny texture and shimmery acidity, and it has a very long finish.
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.