2024 Eola Amity Hills Chardonnay

2024 Eola Amity Hills Chardonnay

$65.00

Struck match and pulverized flint, burst of creamed lime, lemon oil, peach pit, ginger, mint. Heady yet weightless, the palate is bone dry, full of dry extract, textural and finishes long with cool, smoky minerals. Pristine and potent. Five of the best vineyards in the Eola Amity Hills picked between 9/16/24 and 9/29/24.

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Vineyards: 100% chardonnay from five Eola Amity Hills vineyards planted between 2014-2019:

27% Temperance Hill Vineyard, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 9/28/24

24% X Novo Vineyard, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 9/16/24

20% Koosah Vineyard Chardonnay, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 9/29/24

17% Witness Tree Vineyard, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 9/16/24

13% X Omni Vineyard, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 9/20/24

Vintage: A wet winter was followed by a mid-January freeze and a cool, wet early March. Bud break occurred mid-April, followed by a varied May that included both a heat wave and cool periods. Early June was warm, and warmer sites bloomed weeks before cooler or higher elevation, sites – a bit of rain helped temper fruit set. Yields were average. After a hot early July, temperatures cooled, and a temperate August set vines up for an exceptionally long and glorious harvest, which began on September 10 in Dundee and concluded on October 10 in South Salem. All lots were crushed and the must allowed to brown in steel before sulfur was added. Primary fermentation completed quickly with ambient yeasts in a warm cellar with full solids in primarily new, once and twice used extra tight grain French oak. As the cellar cooled, ambient malolactic fermentation progressed, completing between late 2024 and mid 2025. Very little lees stirring was employed. The wines aged one year in oak before being moved to steel tanks in August 2025 for a second winter on the lees in a cold cellar. The 2024 wines feature high natural acidity, prominent site expression with intense aromatics, depth of flavor, with texture, density and structure to age for decades.

Vinification: Hand-picked between 9/16/24 and 9/29/24, each lot was crushed, pressed hard for three hours, then browned in steel for 6-24 hours before a sulfur addition. Ambient yeast fermentations began either in steel or in French oak with vineyard specific pied de cuve. Each lot fermented on full solids in new 228L/265L barrels, once used or third fill 350L/400L/500L puncheons. Primary fermentations were rapid in a warm cellar. The barrels were sulfured following completion of ambient malolactic in a cold cellar between late 2024 and mid 2025. After twelve months in extra tight and tight grain French oak from Damy, a blend was made in steel of 27% Temperance Hill, 24% X Novo, 20% Koosah, 17% Witness Tree and 13% X Omni Block 5. The blend comes from 47% new 265L barrels, 26% once used 265L barrels and 27% third fill 400L puncheons. The 2024 Eola Amity Hills Chardonnay aged an additional six months in steel on lees. No fining or filtration. 49mm DIAM 10.