Estate Chardonnay

The Estate Chardonnay is the clearest window into Lingua Franca's volcanic soils and wind‑cooled slopes, delivering a style that is vibrant, linear and deeply mineral.

Fermentation with native yeasts and a careful balance of new and neutral French oak provide textural layering without weight, ensuring purity remains at the core. Dry‑farming and organic principles contribute to the wine's natural concentration and energy.

The fruit is field sorted, hand-picked, then 77% whole cluster pressed, 23% crushed and pressed, then settled in tank for 24 hours on average, barrel fermented with wild yeast in a combination of 25% new, lightly toasted 500-liter puncheons, and 75% old French oak puncheons and barriques from diverse coopers. Full malolactic fermentation is completed spontaneously in each barrel. After 11 months aging on lees, the wines are combined in tank with their lees for five months prior to bottling.

While approachable young, the Estate Chardonnay has the structure to evolve gracefully, revealing greater depth and savoury complexity with time. It is a beautifully composed expression of Oregon Chardonnay at its most precise and terroir‑driven.