Loop de Loop Winery, Chardonnay 2021, Columbia Gorge, WA

Only five barrels were made of this beautiful unoaked Chardonnay that has notes of apple, pear, mineral, and lemon curd.

COUNTRY: USA

STATE: WA

APPELLATION (AVA): Columbia Gorge 

SUBREGION: Underwood Mountain

VINEYARD: White Salmon Vineyard

VINTAGE: 2021

GRAPES:  Chardonnay

SOIL: Volcanic loess & loam

PRACTICE: Organic & regenerative farming, dry farming, no synthetic chemicals

VINIFICATION: Fermented with wild yeasts, unoaked, aged in stainless steel on the lees for 9 months before bottling, unfined, unfiltered.

STYLE: Still

COLOR: Pale lemon

BODY: Light to Medium (3-4)

TASTE: Dry

PRIMARY AROMAS: Pear blossom, yellow apple,

FLAVOR: Brioche, lemon curd, poached pear, mineral

FORMAT: 750 ml

ALCOHOL: 13.25%

SERVICE AND SUGGESTION:

ABOUT THE PRODUCER: 
“Loop de Loop wines are high-altitude wines created by Julia Bailey Gulstine, and Scott Gulstine. Our winery and vineyard are on an extinct shield volcano on the edge of the Cascade Mountain Range (Underwood Mountain) just over an hour from Portland. We make vintage specific wines that speak of the places they are grown – and these are some very special sites. The wines from this little mountain are bright, focused & intense – they are savory, aromatic, lithe, elegant, often mineral and sometimes even saline.

In the tradition of Burgundian “old-world” wines, all of our wines are fermented with wild yeasts that come in on the fruit, out of the vineyard. Julia practices low-intervention winemaking, letting the fruit & fermentation guide the process and her actions in the cellar. She doesn’t have a predetermined idea of what the wines will become, rather, she sees her role as their shepherd while they find their path. Generally, less than 20ppm sulfur is added to the wines, and nothing else. The wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered.” loopdeloopvintner.com

ABOUT THE VINEYARDS: White Salmon Vineyard Chardonnay is from 30-year-old vines at 900’ elevation.