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YEAR'S BEST CHARDONNAY charming side to its slight bitterness, its chalky green-apple flavor ready to cut through crispy fried fish. (942 cases) § Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards, Buellton, CA tiness, lees-driven savor and lemony fruit, all woven into a lacy, acid-mineral finish. And it has more to reveal if you give it cellar time. (265 cases) § Walter Scott Wines, Salem, OR 441778 92 | Bethel Heights $60 2013 Eola-Amity Hills Casteel Chardonnay ^ You can almost taste the breeze in this fresh, bright chardonnay. Its flavors lean generously toward pear, marked by a hint of lees, finishing with firmness and a racy mineral length. It should benefit from some cellar time; then serve with trout en papillote. (W&S 2/16; 100 cases) § Bethel Heights Vineyard, Salem, OR 438455 91 | Amalie Robert 445493 88 | Clos La Chance $15 87 | Greystone Cellars $14 2015 Monterey County Chardonnay (Best Buy) ^ This feels plump and ripe but not overplayed, its golden apple flavor threaded with acidity, giving it a crunchy refreshment calmed by a creamy imprint of lees. (1,462 cases) § Clos La Chance Winery, San Martin, CA 445032 2014 California Chardonnay (Best Buy) ^ With its bright, clean lime and honeysuckle flavors, this is a friendly and lively chardonnay, with no obvious oak influence. § Greystone Cellars, Oakville, CA N EW YO RK 445681 87 | Knapp $14 2015 Finger Lakes Chardonnay (Best Buy) ^ Lean and bright, this has a lemony scent with a bit of saltiness and mineral nerve. (75 cases) § Knapp Wine Cellars, Dundee, NY OREG O N 445024 94 | Walter Scott $45 2014 Eola-Amity Hills X Novo Vineyard Chardonnay ^ Ken Pahlow makes this wine from a vineyard Craig Williams planted in 2010, working with 11 clones of chardonnay. This is an elegant, warm chardonnay with buoyancy as it leaps out of the glass in scents of freshly baked bread and sun-warmed golden apple. A bit of cinnamon spice and smoke lend complexity, while the texture is firm and linear, but the lasting impression comes from the wine's haunting depth of flavor. (150 cases) § Walter Scott Wines, Salem, OR 445023 93 | Walter Scott $40 2014 Willamette Valley Cuvée Anne Chardonnay ^ Cuvée Anne is blended from vineyards Ken Pahlow considers his best sites. It comes together in a wild array of smoke, nut60 WINE & SPIRITS OCTOBER 2016 $22 2012 Willamette Valley Her Silhouette Chardonnay (Best Buy) ^ Lifted and light, this stainless-steel-fermented chardonnay reads almost like an Alsace wine, its heady apple scents lifted with peach notes. The flavors are invigorating and tense, the pear-like juiciness framed by a phenolic grip. Chill it down for clam pasta. (W&S 12/15; 70 cases) § Amalie Robert Estate, Dallas, OR 441819 91 | Argyle $40 2013 Willamette Valley Nuthouse Chardonnay ^ Tangy and fresh, with a pleasing salinity framing lemon and apple flavors, this nimble white has a generous middle with a leesiness that creeps into the finish like a fog. For lemon chicken. (W&S 2/16; 1,300 cases) § Argyle Winery, Newberg, OR 445439 91 | Bethel Heights $75 2014 Eola-Amity Hills Casteel Chardonnay ^ The immediate impression here is citrus, while the flavors are herbal, touching on green, crisp apple, held in a fine, lacy mineral frame. There's a sense of coiled energy that feels hidden for now. Cellar to give it time to evolve. (177 cases) § Bethel Heights Vineyard, Salem, OR 445378 91 | Winderlea $38 2014 Willamette Valley Chardonnay ^ A broad white made in a leesy style, this shows a sulfur note before scents of golden apple and yeasty bread emerge. The flavors are simple but satisfying, framed by a cool salinity, ideal for late-summer sipping. (914 cases) § Winderlea Wine Co., McMinnville, OR 444730 90 | Bergström $90 90 | Bethel Heights $56 90 | Walter Scott $45 2014 Willamette Valley Sigrid Chardonnay ^ This wine's green-apple scent, powerful leesy notes, high acidity and demonstrative oak character will need bottle age to come together. And yet it's already clearly a well-crafted wine, the freshness and definition within the oak frame suggesting there's much to reveal going forward. Give it time in the cellar. (W&S 8/16; 500 cases) § Bergström Wines, Newberg, OR 445438 2014 Eola-Amity Hills Justice Vineyard Chardonnay ^ A powerful white in a lush, oak-driven style, this overlays the ripe pineapple and fresh apple flavors with a caramel tinge. It seems as warm as Oregon can manage. For spot prawns. (121 cases) § Bethel Heights Vineyard, Salem, OR 445025 2014 Willamette Valley Freedom Hill Vineyard Chardonnay ^ High-toned and mineral, this takes on a lean green-apple scent with air. The flavors are leesy and crunchy at once, with a firmness that begs for food, like oysters Rockefeller. (100 cases) § Walter Scott Wines, Salem, OR WASHINGTON 437873 91 | Sparkman Cellars $30 2013 Columbia Valley Lumière Chardonnay ^ You can taste the sunlight in this plush chardonnay from two Washington vineyards, including Stillwater Creek on the Royal Slope. It's firm and weighty, and yet the golden apple scents and ripe pear flavors come in dry and clean, guided by a light touch of smoky oak. It has the heft for pork loin. (W&S 12/15) § Sparkman Cellars, Woodinville, WA n http://wineshop.bergstromwines.com/index.cfm?method=storeproducts.showdrilldown&productid=12DB58DF-3C65-41A5-93F6-E90D378E464D&ProductCategoryID=EBE1C6BC-FDFF-DEC3-0DAE-F3CCDFE56640&WineryID=1E4EB6D1-AD19-D545-B354-03D0956A116F&WineTypeID=&ProductType=&wineVarietalID=&wineRegionID=&vintage=&lowprice=&highPrice=&WineBrandID=&WineAppellationID=&lowletter=&highletter=&OrderBy=PXPC.DisplayOrder%20Asc,%20P.ProductName%20ASC&ShippingState=OR https://www.shopclos.com/clos/p-407-2015-estate-monterey-chardonnay.aspx

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