Granville Willamette Valley Chardonnay Basalt 2024 Esthers medium-bodied wine captures earthy minerality

medium-bodied wine captures earthy minerality from red volcanic soils at 2

Half-bottles also age slightly faster than standard bottles

Now part of the LVMH stable

a touch more reductive

These ancient vines flourish at 680 meters in the northern highlands of Arganza on clay and slate soils

Granville Willamette Valley Chardonnay Basalt 2024 Esthers medium-bodied wine captures earthy mineralityJackson Holstein's earliest memories are of bouncing around the back of his father's pickup, riding between the Willamette Valley vineyards his dad was managing for Oregon's pioneering estates. He and his wife Ayla launched Granville in 2014, and they still make only around 4,000 cases. Basalt is their calling card, drawn from organically farmed sites planted on the valley's iron rich volcanic basalt in the Dundee Hills and Eola Amity Hills. The