Vineyard: 93% Willamette Valley Chardonnay, 7% Pinot noir lees. The fourth bottling of the solera, Memorie IV, is a rose d’assemblage: two consecutive vintages of pinot noir lees enhance and bring dimensionality to a perpetual blend of Willamette Valley Chardonnay composed of approximately 70 distinct lots from 14 vineyards over 8 vintages:

Vintages:

3.5% – 2023 lees of Pinot noir  

3.5% – 2022 lees of Pinot noir  

40% – 2022 Willamette Valley Chardonnay

10% – 2021 Willamette Valley Chardonnay

43% – 2014-2019 Willamette Valley Chardonnay

Vinification: Memorie is the name for the solera I’ve created as a perpetual blend of nearly every lot of chardonnay I’ve produced. The solera system preserves a subtle reductive quality even as the blend of reserve wine ages in steel on lees for many years.  Each year, the solera base is refreshed by wine from select lots in the cellar, maintaining the blends evolving character. Memorie allows me to use time to my advantage, gradually crafting a distinctive expression Willamette Valley chardonnay.

The fourth release of Memorie of the solera is a departure from the prior bottlings as it incorporates a small amount of pinot noir lees. This addition of lees deepens color, enhances structure and broadens the character. Beginning in January 2024, as I racked the 2022 chardonnays to their bottling tanks, I collected the most turbid portion of the tanks with the fine lees. In February 2024, I blended in the most turbid portion and fine lees from the last racking of Memorie III, as well as the 2022 Sequitur pinot noir lees from the 2022 Pink Label. I topped the tank up with the solera base of 2014-2019 chardonnay, which has been in steel on lees for 60-92 months. In August 2024, I gently stirred in 2023 pinot noir lees of two new barrels from the underground cellar of at Sequitur. This blend aged an additional six months in steel on pinot noir lees. Closed with 48mm CWINE3. Unfined/unfiltered.

Chemistry: 7.07 g/L TA | 3.16 pH | 12.8% | .25g/L RS | 0.54 g/L VA | .34 g/L malic | ~35ppm SO2 (free)