Vineyard: 97.5% Willamette Valley chardonnay, 2.5% Pinot noir lees.

31% X Omni Vineyard Chardonnay, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 10/1/24

18% X Novo Vineyard Chardonnay, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 9/16/24

18% Witness Tree Vineyard Chardonnay, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 9/16/24

15% Koosah Vineyard Chardonnay, Eola Amity Hills, hand-picked 10/1/24

15% Gregory Ranch Vineyard Chardonnay, Yamhill Carlton, hand-picked 10/3/24

2.5% Sequitur Vineyard Pinot noir lees

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: Pink Label is a singular Willamette Valley chardonnay rosé d’assemblage, produced in select vintages blending site and varietal. The chardonnay blended for the 2024 Pink Label fermented with ambient yeasts on full solids in 34% new, 36% once used and 30% third fill extra tight grain French oak barrels. Ambient malolactic was still progressing after twelve months aging in French oak in a cold cellar when the chardonnay was transferred to steel with lees. Shortly thereafter, 2024 pinot noir lees from two new barrels of Sequitur Vineyard were gently stirred in. After five months in steel on both pinot noir and chardonnay lees, the 2024 Pink Label was racked off lees and sulfured. The sixth release of Pink Label is composed of 97.5% chardonnay from 5 vineyards: 31% X Omni Block 4, 18% X Novo, 18% Witness Tree, 15% Koosah and 15% Gregory Ranch, and 2.5% pinot noir lees from Sequitur Vineyard. Unfined, filtered. 48mm CWINE3.

Chemistry: 7.45 g/L TA | 3.21 pH | 13.24% | 0.7g/L RS | 0.47 g/L VA | 1 g/L malic | ~30ppm SO2 (free)