The 2016 Chardonnay from the Drouhin family’s new Roserock estate is a lovely young wine in the making, with a fine structural chassis destined to carry it effortlessly well into the future. It is a pretty ripe wine at 13.9 percent alcohol, but fresh and pure, offering up a classy bouquet of pear, white peach, fresh almond, citrus peel, lovely soil tones and a very discreet framing of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied and quite youthful in profile, with outstanding soil signature, a good core of fruit, bright acids and excellent focus and grip on the pure and primary finish. This is a wine that really deserves some bottle age to start to show some of its secondary layers of complexity. It will age long and gracefully.

Domaine Drouhin Oregon's new Eola-Amity wine continues to impress. Supple, seductive and rippled with kiwi, apple, citrus and melon flavors, it's nicely ripe and well melded. The barrel influence is modest, which perfectly suits fruit this good.

The 2016 Roserock Chardonnay has a fresh nose of Bosc pear and Granny Smith apples with touches of baby's breath flowers, wet pebbles and baker’s yeast. Light to medium-bodied with a touch of creaminess in the mouth, it segues into notes of fresh hay, red apple skin and lemon, with great juicy acidity and lovely phenolic texture on the finish. 2,866 cases produced. - EB