Statera Cellars is Oregon’s groundbreaking Chardonnay producer. Back when Willamette meant Pinot Noir – and nothing else – Meredith Bell and Luke Wylde founded Statera as Oregon’s first all-Chardonnay producer. 

Why bother? With everyone clamoring for Oregon Pinot, wouldn’t it make more sense to just give the people what they want?  

Not to Luke and Meredith, because they loved the region and knew that the Pacific Northwest could create wild and wonderful expressions of Chardonnay all their own. So not only did they ignore the region’s most famous grape, they also all but ignored its most famous touchstone, Burgundy. Instead of modeling their wines on the famous Chardonnays of the Cote des Blancs, they set out to express their local terroir with reference to wines of Jura, Slovenia, and other outlying regions. 

The two are the perfect team for this project. Meredith is a scientist, making sure that everything they do is dialed in, correct and honest. Luke is a philosopher, always pushing to take the risks necessary to make wines that are on the cutting edge of what Oregon can do, showing us different and wonderful faces of a grape we think we know so well. 

Statera Cellars Chardonnay Multa V NV -  $45.99
Have you ever seen a multi-vintage Oregon Chardonnay before?  No, us either. This perpetual cuvee is a blend of 2016-2021 (but skipping 2020) and gives us an expression of the Van Duzer Corridor’s terroir that transcends vintage. Delicious, complex.

Statera Cellars Chardonnay Cutis 2021 - $31.99
Orange wine you can bring to your non-orange loving friends: accessible pretty even while it has the light tannic structure to and orange profile to go with heartier meals or to keep your Gravner-loving amigos happy.

Statera Cellars Chardonnay Unicus 2021 - $29.99
Here’s what happens when you don’t worry about the rules: blend skin contact Chardonnay with direct press Chardonnay in equal parts, let it mature and integrate with long lees aging, and make a rich and textured Chardonnay with a bit of orange-wine aroma and a lot of Eola-Amity terroir.