{"product_id":"belle-pente-chardonnay-willamette-valley","title":"Belle Pente Chardonnay Willamette Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003eBelle Pente Vineyard and Winery is a small, family-owned estate in Oregon’s Willamette Valley known for its deeply traditional, terroir-driven approach to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Founded by winemaker Jill and her late husband Brian O’Donnell in the late 1990s, the winery has built a reputation for meticulous, hands-on farming and classic, non-interventionist winemaking—favoring native fermentations, minimal new oak, and extended aging to let the vineyard speak clearly. Their estate site in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA, with its marine sedimentary soils, produces wines of structure, earthiness, and finesse, often compared stylistically to old-world Burgundy rather than the riper expressions common in the New World.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir Chardonnay gets a long elevage, and it really does hint at a Burgundian style.\u003cstrong\u003e Jeb Dunnuck loved it, rating it 94 points:\u003c\/strong\u003e \"The 2021 Chardonnay Willamette Valley pours a youthful straw color and opens with savory notes of salted lemon, raw almonds, fresh apples, and hay. The palate is full and silky, with refreshing acidity and a delicately creamy texture, followed by fantastic length and hints of hazelnut on the finish. This is a gorgeous Chardonnay, drinking well now with another 8-10 years ahead. All barrel-fermented in neutral barrels (left outside all winter), the wine is bottled just before the next vintage. From a two-acre estate, they always pick part of the vineyard early to capture fresher citrus notes, and later to capture tropical notes of mango, pineapple, and papaya.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Table Wine Asheville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48082616778974,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0534\/2170\/3342\/files\/WhiteWinePic_e27799e8-5312-431d-8505-1d6dc4780d06.jpg?v=1763039425","url":"https:\/\/tablewineasheville.com\/products\/belle-pente-chardonnay-willamette-valley","provider":"Table Wine Asheville","version":"1.0","type":"link"}