Skip to product information
Lingua Franca Estate Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay 2023
  • Lingua Franca Estate Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay 2023
Lingua Franca Estate Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay 2023

Lingua Franca

Lingua Franca Estate Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay 2023

$100.00

Lingua Franca is the exploration of Oregon, an open mind, focused on picking fruit optimally for freshness, tension and complexity—based on the varying conditions of the season and the terroir of individual vineyard blocks which are farmed by organic and regenerative farming principals. The land, the way it’s farmed and the quality of the light on east-facing slopes in the Willamette Valley are what shape the wines.

Lingua Franca Estate Chardonnay 2023 is multi-faceted. It possesses both richness and sinewy texture. The nose has a flintiness and an oyster like salinity that is uniquely intense in this vintage. On the palate it continues with a seashell character, yellow flowers, white smoke and green apple. It is thrilling, taught, mouthwatering and sublime.

Vintage: 2023

ABV: 13.5%
Tasting Notes

The growing season in 2023 started off with a pattern that had prevailed for the previous two years with a cold wet spring, though never with any frost. The cool spring weather led into a beautifully warm second week of May with temperatures in the mid 80s that promoted shoot growth to set up for a good flowering in June. Though we had the occasional hot day we didn’t experience the extreme heat spikes we’d seen in previous
summers. Picking began at the end of September in ideal conditions. These promise to be among our most successful
wines ever.
Vineyard Notes

Lingua Franca Estate Chardonnay is sourced entirely from the original blocks planted by Larry Stone in 2012, which yielded balanced, yet full flavored fruit and maturity in 2023.
Awards & Accolades

96 pts - “The 2023 Lingua Franca Estate Chardonnay comes from this location in the Eola-Amity Hills, set on Jory and Gelderman soils and planted back in 2012. Wet stone mark the nose alongside juicy nectarine, starfruit, and shades of pineapple. The palate is super seamless with a silky mouthfeel and incredible sense of elegance and finesse. Drink 2025-2040.”

Owen Bargreen, September 2025
Food Pairing

The fruit field sorted, hand-picked, then 80% whole cluster pressed, 20% crushed and pressed, then settled in tank for 24 hours on average, barrel fermented with wild yeast in a combination of 27% new, lightly toasted 500-liter puncheons, and 73% old French oak puncheons and barriques from diverse coopers. Full malolactic fermentation completed spontaneously in each barrel. After 11 months aging on lees, the wines were combined in tank with their lees for five months prior to bottling.

Related Wines