Morgen Long Chardonnay Eola-Amity Hills Willamette Valley 2020

93 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "Seth Long’s Eola-Amity Hills bottling of chardonnay is composed from a fifty-fifty blend of fruit from the X Omni Vineyard and the Seven Springs Vineyard. The wine was barrel fermented in older casks and after malolactic was completed (which took much longer for the X Omni portion of the cuvée), the two lots were blended and aged in new, Damy five hundred liter puncheon for eight and a half months prior to bottling. The wine comes in at a svelte 12.5 percent octane this year and delivers a beautiful aromatic constellation of pear, apple, almond, a lovely base of white soil tones, dried flowers, a hint of fresh nutmeg and a refined foundation of buttery oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully structured, with a fine core of fruit, a superb girdle of acidity, precise focus and grip and a long, complex and vibrant finish. There were only fifty-two cases produced of this beautiful chardonnay! 2022-2040+ (Mar/Apr 2022)"