All things Oregon Chardonnay

WINE TALK
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Thanks for the recommendations! @JustinP — that was well timed because a local store just got in White Walnut. @Brian_Be — I’ve found vincent royer online (VDLT who also have championship bottle on their books and have cheap shipping) and I’ll keep an eye out for violin bracken. thanks for the lists @Marcus_Goodfellow and looking forward to trying your single vineyard chardonnay. All the pointers are much appreciated everyone as is the info on Seth’s 2024 Eola @Wil_Raley

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History Repeats, an Offer

This week, Audrey Frick of Jeb Dunnuck published “An In-Depth Look at The Willamette Valley: 2024 and 2023” from tastings in the Willamette Valley earlier this year. I am pleased to share that she awarded a perfect 100-point score to 2024 Morgen Long Temperance Hill Vineyard Chardonnay.

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With this second perfect score, following Audrey’s 100-point review of 2021 Morgen Long X Omni Vineyard Chardonnay, Morgen Long becomes the first winery in Oregon history with multiple 100-point ratings.

There are a limited number of bottles remaining of 2024 Temperance Hill Vineyard Chardonnay. To accompany, I’m opening up the library on 2023 Temperance Hill Vineyard Chardonnay and 2022 Temperance Hill Vineyard Chardonnay.

All orders will be packed for fall shipment, which will begin once harvest wraps.

Tasting notes are in each wine’s listing in the store.

Please visit the press page for reviews of prior vintages.

I am grateful for your interest in my singular focus on Willamette Valley Chardonnay.

Sincerely, Seth Morgen Long

Cross-posted from the Morgen Long thread - Bravo!

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Thanks for sharing. I’m lucky/humbled to be on the Board of the Eola-Amity Hills AVA— appreciate seeing this. We’ll be issuing a news release: I think this is the third 100pt wine from the AVA in the past year alone

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I think all of the Oregon 100 point wines have come from Eola-Amity Hills.

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I was looking for a list posted here but having trouble finding it. I believe there were a couple of non EAH wines (Walla Walla Oregon side? and another?)

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Nope

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Add Ribbon Ridge.

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I don’t believe that the Patricia Green wine was from there.

Damn…late to the party again.

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Well, the more you know I guess. I guess a belated congratulations are in order!

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Do people still really care about points? I thought that went out with Parker.

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I’m sure it is still pretty exciting for the producer! And evidently people care enough that Morgen Long sold out of the remainder of the Temperance within an hour or so.

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It’s pretty exciting. I am glad scores aren’t as heavily relied upon now, and that there’s a broader variety of critics to align personal preferences with. It’s a not a perfect system, but it’s very useful. It’s also great exposure for us as a new producer.

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Let’s track the price trend for the 100 points wine and we’ll see. :grinning_face:

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Okay here are the 7 Oregon 100pt wines that I know of (thanks to @ross_jordan earlier in this thread). Three of which are Chardonnay (plus two Pinot Noir) from the Eola Amity Hills : )

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2024 Kelley Fox Carter 100 pts WS.

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You mean JD or did Ws gove 100 too?

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I cannot imagine following Dunnuck’s recommendations on any of these. I think more recently someone else does it for his site? I don’t know anything about her.

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I’m not finding this Brian. Can you provide a screenshot or other source? (I don’t have a WS account). Thanks!

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About Audrey Frick

When Audrey Frick was 12 years old, her band director at Robert F. Wagner Middle School in New York City, Mr. Pitt, held up a French horn.

“This,” Mr. Pitt announced, “is the most difficult of all instruments. But it can also be the most rewarding.”

That the French horn quickly became an obsession for Audrey captures her eagerness to take on a challenge and to learn complex subject matter—qualities that the Manhattan native brings to covering Sonoma, Oregon, Champagne, Piedmont, and Brunello for JebDunnuck.com.

Audrey earned a Bachelor of Music in French horn performance at the University of Colorado. While there working on her master’s, the cash-strapped grad student found a job as a server at the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse. There were only a few wines offered there, but she was drawn to them, and wine began to compete with music for her attention.

A pivotal experience came while dining at the Northern Italian-focused Frasca Food and Wine, where a traditional tajut—a small pour—of Friulano Bianco is offered as a greeting. With this small gesture, Audrey saw how wine and hospitality could blend to create culture, and there was no turning back.

After gaining the notice of Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey, within a couple of years Audrey was hired at his restaurant Frasca. She worked her way from the back office and polishing room to the wine team while studying to earn the Advanced Sommelier credential through the Court of Master Sommeliers.

She then moved to Frasca’s sister restaurant Tavernetta, in Denver, as a member of its opening wine team, before becoming lead sommelier. There, she worked to foster a culture of wine education for the staff, with an all-Italian wine list. In addition to the restaurant world, she developed high-end retail experience while working at the Boulder Wine Merchant.

Audrey’s passion for wine education and culture took her to Europe to help with harvests at Iuli in Monferratto in Piedmont, and at Marquis d’Angerville in Burgundy.

Her goal as a contributing editor at JebDunnuck.com is to navigate the confusing nature of Italian wine law, history and regionality to help inform the reader on what to drink, when to drink it, and what to have on the table alongside it.

As for the French horn, Audrey still has one. Though she’s not playing much these days, there is talk with her study partners of one day forming a band: The Champagne Supernovas.

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Audrey Frick gave the 100pt score to the ‘24 KF Carter

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