2021 Hundred Suns Chardonnay Old Eight Cut
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The 2021 Chardonnay Old Eight Cut comes from sites across the Willamette Valley, including the Koosah, Lone Feather and Three Cedars Vineyards. It was matured for about 12 months in a small percentage of new French oak. It has generous aromas of baked apples and peach, matchstick, panna cotta and crème brûlée. The medium-bodied palate is broad and textural with concentrated, savory flavors balanced by bright, mouthwatering acidity, and it has a long, spicy finish.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jeb Dunnuck
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Pouring a medium straw hue, the 2021 Chardonnay Old Eight Cut is their Willamette Valley blend from the Koosah Vineyard, which is now owned by the Jadot family. Beautiful aromatics lift from the glass, with balanced fresh flinty reduction, ripe apple, wet stone, and Meyer Lemon. Medium to full-bodied, with a stony texture and gorgeous fruit to balance things out very well, it offers a fantastic citrus-driven spine of fruit as well as a great value. It is drinking wonderfully now and will drink well over the next 5-6 years. 300 cases were produced.
Both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir multi-AVA vineyard blends are called 'Old Eight Cut'. For this, wine grapes are sourced from Kusa Vineyard in Eola-Amity Hills, Lone Feather Vineyard in McMinnville and Three Cedars vineyard in the Laurelwood district. The first two are rocky basalt, the third is windblown loess . All dry-farmed. Pale lemon green in colour. A creamy, lemon-curd and vanilla nose. Starts sharp and zesty on the palate with tingling acidity, but finishes on a rounded, creamy, lemon note with chalky minerality and grey salt. Very well balanced in structure. Oak is noticeable but not overdone. Lingering finish. (SCJ)