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Wine Specs

Vintage

2015

Varietal

70% Pinot Noirs, 30% Chardonnay

Appellation

WILLAMETTE VALLEY

Alcohol %

Wine Enthusiast

2015 Blanc De Blancs

In Stock

Rated 93 Pts By Wine Enthusiast

Our passion for the Blanc de Blancs style of Champagne is the reason we started Lytle-Barnett.

We decided to turn our passion into a reality. The Willamette Valley has been producing incredible Chardonnay since around 2008. We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of creating excellent vintage, Chardonnay-based sparkling wines that exemplify the unique terroir of Oregon's Eola-Amity Hills AVA.

How It’s Made:

All of our grapes are hand picked and then gently pressed, as whole clusters in a state-of-the-art pneumatic press. This 100% Chardonnay cuvée is fermented in stainless steel tanks and oak barrels to simultaneously preserve acidity and impart richness. All of our wines are bottled early in the summer, undergo secondary fermentation in the "Methodé Champenoise" style - meaning in the bottle, and then age for a minimum of 3 years. After aging, at the time of "disgorgement" we add a very minimal "dosage" of 2-3 grams per liter of sugar creating a dry, Brut Nature style. The wine then rests for another 3 months before release.

Tasting Notes:

This golden straw colored wine offers a subtle nose of flint, wet rock and vibrant tart fruit with aromas of meyer lemon and puff pastry. The palate delves deeper into soft flavors of honeydew melon, and creme fraiche with an opulent, mouth-coating finish of lemon curd, and fresh baguette. Ethereal beads of bubbles, pair with piquant acidity to carry the wine to a long clean finish.

We really like the acidity we are getting from the wine and with the low ph it gives us a great chardonnay aspect. This graceful tension allows the pallet to get really excited about the Blanc de Blancs.

Wine Profile

Tasting Notes

This golden straw colored wine offers up a first nose both flinty and stony and fruitful with notes of meyer lemon and baking yeast. The palate delves deeper into the realm of light muskmelon notes and lemon curd atop a rich and evolved character of fresh baguette and nuances of cornbread that is both mouth filling and elegant. All of this is bolstered by the ethereal bead of the bubbles that carry the wine to a long clean finish

Production Notes

Hand-picked grapes from the southern Willamette Valley were first chilled overnight to minimize color and phenolic extraction as they were gently pressed in a traditional pneumatic press. The different blocks of Dijon clone 76 and clone 352 Chardonnay were pressed and vinified separately entirely in neutral French oak barrels to allow the rich palate weight to come to the forefront. The ferments were allowed to progress quickly to bring out secondary characters of straw and flint over top the more expected fruit characters of meyer lemon and melon. This wine was bottled in the late spring of 2016 and matured sur latte (on its yeast) until disgorging in the spring of 2019. Coming up to disgorgement, the wine built mouthfeel and depth to the point where only a minimal 2.5 g/L of sugar was added in the finishing dosage - just enough to accentuate the length of the palate. The wine was then aged more than 6 months on cork before its release to allow the wine to relax after disgorgement.