Winemaker Notes
This Chardonnay embodies Stoller's longstanding love for and commitment to the variety. Fermented and aged in concrete and stainless steel this Chardonnay is vibrant with a delicate, mineral driven texture and elegant balance.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
A not-quite-ripe pineapple aroma is accompanied by notes of chalkboard dust and chamomile. The wine's tart peach and sweet grilled pineapple flavors meld with a touch of saline and brisk acidity. Prepare to embrace the pucker with this excellent value.
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.