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Evening Land Seven Springs Vineyard Summum Chardonnay 2014 Front Bottle Shot
Evening Land Seven Springs Vineyard Summum Chardonnay 2014 Front Bottle Shot Evening Land Seven Springs Vineyard Summum Chardonnay 2014 Front Label

Winemaker Notes

Summum continues to offer itself as the finest wine from Seven Springs. Sourced from 14 rows of vines that thread the spine of the Seven Springs, this bottling routinely deepens the wineries belief in the special terroir of their vineyard. Latin for 'the utmost', the 2014 Summum Chardonnay is just that. The juxtaposition of sumptuousness and vivacity is purely the product of the special volcanic soils underlying these vines. That Summum is vinified in an almost identical manner to the La Source Chardonnay further cements the Summum vine rows as a peerless parcel. The fruit from the Summum parcel was gently pressed into 100% new Stockinger puncheons, undergoing spontaneous and indigenous fermentation, The wine was raised in the same puncheons for 10 months before being racked to tank. After 6 months in tank, Summum underwent a light fining before bottling.

Professional Ratings

  • 95
    Taut, minerally and deftly balanced, this poised style delivers beautifully defined pear, river stone, floral and lime flavors, showing distinction and presence. Drink now through 2024.
  • 93
    The 2014 Chardonnay Summum Seven Springs Vineyard, from the top part of the vineyard, aged identically to La Source, has a beautifully composed bouquet. It is more succinct than the La Source with precise citrus fruit, minerals and flint-Iike scents à la Chablis. The palate is very well balanced with crisp acidity, the oak very well integrated with good substance in the mouth. Touches of lemongrass and dried orange peel lend complexity and it offers great length to complete what is a splendid Oregon Chardonnay.
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Chardonnay

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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.

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Eola-Amity Hills

Willamette Valley, Oregon

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Running north to south, adjacent to the Willamette River, the Eola-Amity Hills AVA has shallow and well-drained soils created from ancient lava flows (called Jory), marine sediments, rocks and alluvial deposits. These soils force vine roots to dig deep, producing small grapes with great concentration.

Like in the McMinnville sub-AVA, cold Pacific air streams in via the Van Duzer Corridor and assists the maintenance of higher acidity in its grapes. This great concentration, combined with marked acidity, give the Eola-Amity Hills wines—namely Pinot noir—their distinct character. While the region covers 40,000 acres, no more than 1,400 acres are covered in vine.

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