Morgen Long Willamette Valley Chardonnay White Label 2024

Name: Morgen Long Willamette Valley Chardonnay White Label 2024
Brand: Beaune Imports [BEI]
SKU: SF-4-BEI--082526-17
Price: 54.99 USD
Availability: InStock

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The entry point to Oregon's most single-minded Chardonnay producer, and the wine that shows the full sweep of what he works with: eleven Willamette Valley vineyards planted between 1984 and 2020, led by Blue Heron Farm at 38%, with Shea and Koosah alongside. Seth Long has made nothing but Chardonnay since 2014 — no Pinot Noir safety net — after sharpening his ideas at Domaine de Montille in Meursault, and the White Label is where that Burgundian training shows up in its most accessible register. Native fermentation, a year in French oak (a third new, the rest once-used and third-fill tight grain, with some stainless drums in the mix), then a second winter on the lees in a cold steel cellar. The difficult but drawn-out 2024 season — freeze, cool spring, harvest running from September 10 to October 10 — left unusually high natural acidity. Remarkable quality for the price, and ready to open now.

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More about Morgen Long

The Willamette Valley Chardonnay conversation has gained startling momentum over the last seven or eight years, and for good reason: the Chardonnays coming out of this region, one of North America's most exciting and dynamic, have found a voice and become seriously compelling. Better genetic material, better farming practices, better understanding, and, frankly, better recognition have spurred a Chardonnay golden age in Oregon.

Although every single Chardonnay winemaker in the Valley is making some of the best wine of their life right now, the list of producers driving that explosive "When did these get so good?" conversation is a relatively small one. Mine would include just a few, in fact (and you've read about a couple of them here). But from Portland wine bars to Salem crushpads, there's at least one name that just about the entire Oregon wine industry agrees on: Seth Morgen Long.
Seth is a former sommelier who began working harvests in the Willamette Valley in 2009 and 2010. But it was a gig in Meursault, at Domaine de Montille, that cemented his passion for Chardonnay. "In Meursault," Seth says, "I discovered the blueprint for my life’s great work in the Willamette Valley."

He is unique in the Willamette Valley in his devotion to 100% Chardonnay production—a model that would have seemed ridiculous in Pinot country even ten years ago. But Oregon's pioneering spirit has proven more than once to be the perfect incubator for obsession, and when it meets tenacity and talent, as is the case with Seth's spectacular Chardonnays, wine lovers win.

The style is unmistakable, a study in reduction harnessed by bright, searing acid. Seth encourages turbidity in his musts and avoids sulfite additions at the press, allowing 3-24 hours of browning. Minimal sulfite additions are then introduced to inhibit oxidation. The must and solids then go into a mix of 228- to 500-liter barrels and puncheons for maturation. After malolactic is complete (Seth avoids bâttonage) and the wines have spent one year in barrel, they are transferred to stainless steel for further aging, and only bottled at 18 months. It is the encouragement of reduction combined with a focused hum of acidity and the gift of time before bottling that give his wines their signature balance.

Willamette Valley wine devotees will recognize Seth's favored sites. "I look for vineyards which are thin places, where the temporal and eternal seem to wear thin, and where the layers of farming, the interaction between human and vine, are most focused on revealing the spirit of place," he says.