Keller Estate Oro De Plata Chardonnay Mix (Summer Hold)

Tasting notes & discussion 1

This wine will ship between OCTOBER 5th and 16th. If you want protected summer shipping, click here

Typically $40/bottle from Keller Estate
Vintage 2020 and 2021 from the Petaluma Gap
Available for AZ; CA; CO; CT; FL; GA; ID; IL; IN; IA; KY; LA; ME; MD; MA; MI; MN; MO; MT; NV; NH; NJ; NM; NY; NC; ND; OH; OK; OR; PA; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; WA; WI; WY
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About Keller Estate: “Our mission is to share the passing of time through our family’s vineyard. Arturo Keller and his wife Deborah first fell in love with the site while driving a vintage car through the meandering Sonoma roads, and selected the property for its potential as a site for a world-class vineyard.”

Four Guys, One Plaque

TASTING NOTES:
2020 Keller Estate Oro De Plata Chardonnay - “Bright aromas of lemon curd, crisp green apple, and jasmine excite the senses, while notes of orchard fruit meld with creamy lees and mineral nuances on the palate. The elegant balance of fruit, acid, and rich mouthfeel leads to a long, rounded finish.” (AbV 14.22%, pH 3.47)

2021 Keller Estate Oro De Plata Chardonnay - “The 2021 Keller Estate Oro de Plata Chardonnay has aromas of lychee and just ripe pineapple, followed by floral notes of white petals. In the mouth, the wine has an apple or pear skin flavor paired with a palate-cleansing astringency which gives the wine length and dimension. There are notes of tres leches cake and waffle cone. This wine is lively in the mouth and full of fruit flavor. Without oak contact, the true essence of the Chardonnay grape varietal is delivered here.” (AbV 14.1%, pH 3.39)

VARIETALS: Chardonnay

BARRELS: Stainless steel tanks.

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Waffle cone.

The origin story I always heard: 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, brutal heat wave, an ice cream vendor runs out of paper dishes. Conveniently, the guy at the next stall over is selling a thin Persian waffle called zalabia. He rolls one into a cone, hands it over, ice cream cone is born. Nice tidy story.

Except at least four different guys — Ernest Hamwi, Abe Doumar, the Menches brothers — all separately claimed to have invented it, at the same fair, the same summer, sometimes at stalls that were reportedly right next to each other. There’s no single hero here, just a pile of guys in 1904 St. Louis all pretty sure history owes them a plaque. I love that the invention of one of the most universally beloved foods on Earth immediately devolved into a decades-long turf war fought entirely in old men’s memoirs.

ICYMI, you have two choices:

Worried Summer heat might get to your wine before your wine gets to you? Order from this sale, the page you’re on right now, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year (October)!

Want Protected Summer Shipping and don’t think heat will be a problem? Order from the sale linked here! We’ll still try to get them to you with as little travel time as we can.

Some places get absurdly hot during the Summer, and in particularly unpleasant circumstances, it can damage a wine. Most people get theirs no problem, but there are a couple each Summer that fall victim to the sun no matter how fast we get them to you. If you’ve experienced that before or are afraid it’ll happen to you, we’ll hold your order for you until October, if you order from the Summer Hold sale. We are reasonably sure things will be cooler then.

Who's buying this?

How are you buying your bottles?

If I invented something amazing, how would I want the credit to go?

All mine, name on the plaque, thanks

All mine, name on the plaque, thanks
Fine to share credit if it's deserved

Fine to share credit if it's deserved
I'd rather it stay a nice tidy story

I'd rather it stay a nice tidy story
Honestly I'd forget to tell anyone

Honestly I'd forget to tell anyone
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