Meyer lemon, chamomile flower, juicy white peach. Fresh pineapple, powdered nutmeg, peeled tangerine. Blooming jasmine and sweet gardenias, fluffy sawdust and struck flint. Gala apple and nectarine comfortably fuse with honeysuckle and bright florals in a highly energetic and effortlessly perfumed bouquet. A very mild dusting of vanilla, clove, and salted caramel further augment the charming aromatics as a whiff of matchstick complements just a hint of pretty reduction. Exceptionally lean, tart, and crisp on the palate, graciously expressing stony minerality that is remarkably expansive in its length and breadth. Medium in body with elevated acidity; pure, layered, and wonderfully complex. This 2017 Estate Chardonnay by Formaglini Vineyards is an exciting and impressively precise single vineyard white from Oregon's Chehalem Mountains.

Chardonnay has long been dubbed the "chameleon" of the wine world for its ability to produce exceptional wine in a wide array styles from grapes grown in vastly different regions around the globe. This bottling, crafted by Formaglini Vineyards using Chardonnay sourced from their small estate parcel in the Willamette Valley, is an incredible example of a most classic style that is judiciously ripe and extraordinarily focused. At only 12.5% ABV this wine glides across the palate with tremendous elegance and finesse before finishing with a crisp mineral bite. It is classy yet sexy - pairing a beautifully fresh luminosity with highly calculated and flawlessly executed restraint. Oregon's Willamette Valley is quickly emerging as one of the world's great terroirs for Chardonnay and it is wines like this one that are backing up that bold assertion. Unquestionably delicious.