2018 Shea Wine Cellars Chardonnay

From: Willamette Valley, Oregon Varietal: Chardonnay Shea Wine Cellars is the winemaking effort of grape growers Dick & Deirdre Shea. After ten years of selling all their grape production they decided to create their own expression of Shea Vineyard terroir.They now use 20% of Shea Vineyard’s production for their own effort and sell the remaining grapes to some of the finest Pinot noir producers in Oregon, California and Washington.It is the intention of Shea Wine Cellars to continue to make small quantities of world class Pinot noir and Chardonnay. The Facts Shea vineyard sits on sedimentary soil over fractured sandstone. Vine spacing is 5×7 yielding 1,245 plants per acre. Shea was one of the early vineyards in this area of Yamhill Country and on this soil type. Today, the vineyard is surrounded by some of the premiere wineries making Pinot noir in the “New World.” Sustainable Farming Being stewards of the land we farm is an important responsibility to us. With that in mind, we far