2021 Rodeo Hills Pear Vineyard Chardonnay Read Review

I have to mention the weather. I can’t believe it was cold and rainy earlier this week to be greeted with wonderfully hot summer sun today. Oregon summers always keep you on your toes! Are you ready for the newsletter on Saturday morning? I sure hope you are signed up and anxious for this one! If you still need to sign up, the link is in the bio, and the newsletter goes out at 6:10 am Saturday! I enjoyed exploring the vineyard and in construction tasting room for Rodeo Hills. It is a family venture with Jared/Erica Etzel + Eugene Labunsky. I can’t wait to see the tasting room when it is done, and here is what I thought of the 2021 Rodeo Hills Pear Vineyard Chardonnay. Read Saturday’s newsletter for all of the other details of my visit! As we dive into the 2021 vintage, what better way than to explore what a glass of wine looks like after a few days? Looking at the wine in the glass, the natural light golden hue gives away its young age, and with a little sniffy sniff, that youthful spirit is something we shouldn’t take for granted. Every bit of life from day 1 is still present with the classic characteristics we enjoy from Chardonnay, but not overpowering with tons of oak. This Chardonnay is aged in 500L neutral barrels, and when I say neutral, we are talking 15-year-old barrels. There is no buttery sensation and no traces of stainless on this wine. On the mid-palate and at room temperature, you can experience the true essence of this wine, letting it rest on your mid-palate where you experience a racy, wild sensation occurring on the high and lower regions of the mid-palate combined with outlandish high levels of acidity on day three. That racy and zippiness sensation lingers forever on the mid-palate. 🍷