NV | Statera Cellars 'Multa V' Chardonnay | Willamette Valley Chateau Petite Vedrines mocha and liquorice lifting out

mocha and liquorice lifting out of the glass

it has immediate appeal but will be a great wine to age over the next 15 to 20 years

there is citrus

a certain minerality and a lively acidity that results in a beautiful persistence

NV | Statera Cellars 'Multa V' Chardonnay | Willamette Valley Chateau Petite Vedrines mocha and liquorice lifting outEach year, grapes were whole cluster pressed, settled overnight, and fermented in neutral french barrels. Each vintage spent 16 months in barrel before being added to the solera system. The solera system was built by first combining a barrel from 2016 to a barrel from 2017, and then putting them back into barrels for continued aging. A year later, they were combined with a barrel from the 2018 vintage, and then put back to barrel, etc. The 2020