Shea Willamette Valley Chardonnay 2010
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Dry farmed, Dijon clone Chardonnay shines at this estate. It’s stylish, sharp, concentrated and deep, matching tart tree-fruit flavors to a broad streak of buttery oak. It’s tightly focused and holds through a long finish. This could certainly be cellared for at least a half decade.
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Fresh and appealing, offering polished texture and juicy pear and tamarind flavors, lingering nicely.
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Shea Vineyard, located in the Yamhill Foothills of Oregon's Willamette Valley, was first planted to wine grapes by Dick Shea in 1989 and 1990. Today the vineyard property consists of 200 hillside acres of which 140 are planted to wine grapes, largely Pinot Noir and a few acres of Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. The south facing vineyard sits in a viticultural region called the Willakenzie District. The soil of the vineyard is shallow and very well draining with sandstone subsoil. The vineyard has never been irrigated.
Currently the winery supplies several top Pinot Noir producers in Oregon (Archery Summit, Beaux Freres, Ken Wright, Panther Creek, and St. Innocent) and one in California (Sine Qua Non). The Wine Enthusiast in its annual review of Oregon wines in December 2000, wrote, "It is no coincidence that our two top rated wines... were made from fruit from Richard Shea's perennially superb Willamette Valley vineyard."