2019 Lingua Franca, Estate Chardonnay, Eola-Amity Hills, Oregon, USA

This superb Chardonnay is produced from the Estate vineyard in the Eola-Amity hills across the street from Seven Springs. 2019 produced a wine with vibrant acidity and a well-developed fruit with a lemon peel and passionfruit nose that is also informed by the full malo and long, reductive ageing in cask (20% new). The wine has an elegant balance between the freshness of the vintage and a ripe, dense fruit character that will allow it to age for years to come.Drink 2021 - 2031Charles Curtis MW, Decanter.com (August 2021)

Lovely aromas of lemon curd, olive oil and flint. Medium-bodied. Fresh and supple on the palate. Nuanced and long. Rather charming. Drink or holdjames_suckling, jamessuckling_com (June 2022)

From a bench site with eastern-facing exposure, the 2019 Chardonnay Estate leads with lime-citrus, white flowers, savoury tarragon, and smoky earth, while the palate is fresh with pear, peach, lime zest, and chalky fresh earth. This elegant white has a soft texture without being austere, delivering fresh acidity and citrus, and its floral profile continues on the finish with great finesse. Drink 2022 - 2032audrey_frick, JebDunnuck.com (August 2022)

The 2019 Chardonnay Estate is scented of matchstick, lemon cream, roasted almonds, pastry and red apples. The palate is fresh, focused and precise, with a particularly silky texture, alluring savoury undertones and a flourish of floral perfume on the long finish. It's wonderful right now but will benefit from another 2-3 years in bottle.Drink 2025 - 2035erin_brooks, Wine Advocate (August 2023)

The fruit was field-sorted, hand-picked, then whole-cluster pressed, settled in a tank for 24 hours on average, barrel-fermented with indigenous yeast with 40% in 600-litre puncheons and 60% in old French oak barriques from diverse coopers and left to age for 11 months. Full malolactic conversion was completed spontaneously in each barrel. The wines were combined in a tank with their lees for five months before bottling.Very crisp acidity and crystalline structure, but the flavour seems perhaps a little more dominated by winery than vineyard? Light and crisp with a hint of pear drops. Precise rather than hugely pleasurable at this stage.Drink 2022 - 2025jancis_robinson_mw MW, JancisRobinson.com (August 2021)