2016 Roserock (Drouhin Oregon) Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay

The 2016 Chardonnay from the Drouhin family’s new Roserock estate is a lovely young wine in the making, with a fine structural chassis destined to carry it effortlessly well into the future. It is a pretty ripe wine at 13.9% alcohol, but fresh and pure, offering up a classy bouquet of pear, white peach, fresh almond, citrus peel, lovely soil tones and a very discreet framing of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied and quite youthful in profile, with outstanding soil signature, a good core of fruit, bright acids and excellent focus and grip on the pure and primary finish. This is a wine that really deserves some bottle age to start to show some of its secondary layers of complexity. It will age long and gracefully.