Winemaker Notes
This Reserve Chardonnay expresses aromatics of lemon curd, flint, white blossom, and wet stone. The palate meets the nose with a citrus vibrancy, revealing a luxurious mouthfeel due to extended lees contact and balanced use of oak.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This offers a fresh and flinty nose with lightly spiced, fresh-apple and pear aromas that lead to a very crisp, fresh and attractive palate that delivers a succulent, sleek and fresh impression from start to finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
The estate's oldest Dijon vines are barrel fermented and aged in 20% new French oak. Full bodied with plush, round fruit flavors of Meyer lemon, pink grapefruit, apple and tangerine, this is bolstered by more vivid acidity than past vintages. The new oak adds a lightly toasty note, but it's the palate-refreshing acidity that lets the fruit shine through.
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Wine Spectator
Refined and elegantly focused, with floral apple and toasted spice flavors that build richness on the finish. Drink now through 2021.
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.