Walter Scott - Chardonnay Justice Vineyard 2022 (750ml)
Price: $84.00
| Producer | Walter Scott |
| Country | USA |
| Region | Oregon |
| Subregion | Willamette Valley |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 8100 |
| Size | 750ml |
Decanter: 96 Points
Showing an electric austerity, the Justice Vineyard sits exposed on a ridgeline in the Eola-Amity appellation, buffetted by the winds through the Van Duzer Corridor. Reductive and flinty aromatics with flashes of green mangoes, smashed chalk and grilled lemon. The palate is stony with a mineral spine that dictates terms to white nectarine flesh, fresh ginger root and a whack of salty sea air. (Drink between 2024-2040)
dJeb Dunnuck: 95 Points
The 2022 Chardonnay Justice Vineyard displays a bright yellow hue in the glass and has more lifted reduction on the nose with savory notes of gunflint bright citrus radish white pepper and apple skin. It?s linear persistent and long on the palate with a chalky texture and a long finish. Give it another year or two to flesh out when its fruit will be bolstered a touch. Drink 2025-2035. 165 cases were produced.
Vinous: 94+ Points
The 2022 Chardonnay Justice Vineyard is intense nearly smoky in the best possible way with a burst of dusty florals savory herbs and dried apricots. It?s salty and concentrated but silken in texture?almost weighty in feel. Masses of ripe orchard fruits and salty minerals add tremendous depth. It leaves the palate stained in primary concentration tapering off structured and long with a saline tinge and hints of Asian pear that slowly fade. This is a beast of a wine. - By Eric Guido on May 2024 Ken Pahlow and Erica Landon of Walter Scott will do whatever it takes to deliver the highest-quality wine and the best representation of any given vintage. Their 2022s are wildly successful despite the year's many challenges. Pahlow went into great detail to explain what he believed to be the best way to deal with mildew issues from the cool and rainy spring burned buds from the frost an abundant crop due to the hot summer and finally the dry and hot conditions leading up to harvest. While many growers and winemakers were happy with the large crop set that resulted from the later flowering and secondary buds at Walter Scott the goal was to treat the vines like any other vintage. Therefore the team decided to remove the extra shoots and secondary buds and employ a single-cluster-per-shoot methodology. Even with this standard the quantity of fruit remained unexpectedly high? around 2.6 metric tons per acre. As a result the 2022s maintain the depth and complexity fans love and while the wines may have a slightly more immediate feel they are age-worthy. Alcohol levels are all in check. Though the 2022s did see a little more new wood (only because Pahlow ordered new barrels to keep up with production) it?s hardly noticeable in the final wines. I?ve always thought of Chardonnay before Pinot for Walter Scott but I must say their reds continue to impress in
