Luke Chardonnay 2021
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Luke Chardonnay is 100% Evergreen Vineyard, hailed as one of Washington’s signature white wine vineyards. Burgundian in style, this Chardonnay is barrel fermented and barrel aged. The result is a wine layered with notes of creme bruleé, vanilla, mango, banana peel, and baked pie crust. A thin layer of minerality and acidity lengthen the finish providing\ a lasting impression of what the Columbia Valley has to offer.
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Rich aromatics of melted lemon butter with seared scallops should be enough. The wine’s vanilla bean and pineapple aromas are mere bonuses. Even the wine’s mouthfeel is creamy and buttery, with flavors of peaches, mango, toasted filberts and just enough acidity to hold it all together.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2021 Chardonnay Columbia Valley is rock-solid, with clean citrus and stone fruits as well as toasted spice, brioche, and honeyed mint-like nuances. It's balanced, medium-bodied, and has nicely integrated acidity. Drink bottles over the coming 2-3 years. It's impeccably made.
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Centered in the heart of the Columbia Valley and roughly 50 miles north of Red Mountain and the Yakima Valley sits the Wahluke Slope AVA, a yet to be discovered but dynamic winegrowing region that is producing some of the most exciting wines the state of Washington has to offer.
The true depth of a man’s character is often unknowable, but even one conversation was enough to convince me that LUKE was an imitation of no one. He revealed himself slowly, like a freed wind emerging from the shadow of a mountain. Seemingly ordinary at first, but undeniably complex. Bold and determined, but unabashedly generous.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
