founded by the late Christian Wolffer in Sagaponack and now run by his children Marc and Joey alongside longtime winemaker and partner Roman Roth
Made for cocktails or for sipping on its own
This patient approach develops complexity through time rather than oak
and aged some twenty months on the lees before a bone-dry disgorgement
2 meters of brown clay over the famous Cote des Blancs chalk
Schone Tal Cellars, Yamhill County Sohne, 2018 reasonable cellar 2024 founded by the late ChristianSchone Tal is a family pico winery in McMinnville, Oregon (German for beautiful valley) crafting tiny lots of unfined, unfiltered Pinot Noir with minimal intervention. Sohne, short for ihre treuen Sohne (their faithful sons), is their Pinot from the Hirschy Vineyard in the Yamhill Carlton AVA, one of the Willamette Valley's marine sedimentary gems. Hands off winemaking and neutral oak let the site speak. The 2018 is a vibrant, mineral and spice tinged