Flaneur Willamette Valley Chardonnay 2023 TAGS and Bruendlmayer is the wine

and Bruendlmayer is the wine to change that

bottles like this rarely resurface

the estate assembles its 'Alma' Brut from dozens of separately fermented parcels

fermented in concrete and steel tanks with native yeasts and aged for 2 years in American and French oak of different ages before 3 more years of bottle aging

The nose opens with fresh citrus peel

Flaneur Willamette Valley Chardonnay 2023 TAGS and Bruendlmayer is the wineFlneur is the Willamette Valley project of Marty Doerschlag, who bought the old Carlton grain elevator from neighbor Ken Wright in 2013 and turned it into one of the more thoughtful new addresses in Oregon Chardonnay and Pinot. Winemaker Grant Coulter formerly of Beaux Frres has run the cellar since 2016. The estate vineyards (La Belle Promenade in the Chehalem Mountains, Flanerie in Ribbon Ridge) are farmed organically and biodynamically, dry farmed