Notes: Orange oil, oyster shell, mango curd, saffron, yellow spice, white florals.

Vineyard: Memorie III is the third bottling of the solera is a blend of Willamette Valley chardonnay from sixty lots over eight vintages from fourteen vineyards planted between 1968-2019:
Vintages:
33% – 2022
33% – 2021
7 % – 2019
7.5% – 2018
7.75% – 2017
3.5% – 2016
7.75% – 2015
0.5% –2014

Vinification: Memorie is the moniker for the solera I keep as a perpetual blend of nearly every lot of chardonnay I’ve produced. The solera preserves a slightly reductive character as the solera base of reserve wines is aged in stainless steel on lees. Each year it is refreshed by various volumes from select lots in the cellar. Memorie allows me the opportunity use time as an ally and leisurely capture an evolving expression of ‘house’ style of Willamette Valley chardonnay. The third bottling of the solera is a blend of equal proportions of 2022 chardonnay racked to steel after 12 months in third
fill puncheon, the 2021 chardonnay which has been in steel on lees for 12 months, and the solera base of 2014-2019, which has been in steel on lees for 48-80 months. Memorie III will be bottled on 3/19/2024 under 54mm DIAM 10.
Unfined, unfiltered.