{"product_id":"bethel-heights-willamette-valley-wine-auction-chardonnay-willamette-valley-2024","title":"Bethel Heights Willamette Valley Wine Auction Chardonnay Willamette Valley 2024","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBethel Heights has been farming the same volcanic hillside in the Eola-Amity Hills since 1977, when twin brothers Ted and Terry Casteel and their families planted the first vines on 50 acres of south-facing slopes northwest of Salem. Nearly five decades later, some of those original plantings (own-rooted Chardonnay from Wente and Dijon clones) are among the last surviving own-rooted vinifera in the entire Eola-Amity Hills AVA. Ben Casteel, Terry's son, took over as winemaker in 2006 and has continued his father's philosophy: let the Jory volcanic soil and the Eola-Amity's signature marine winds do the talking. The estate grows Chardonnay here not as an afterthought but as a genuine statement of terroir, and this bottling, made exclusively for the Willamette Valley Wine Auction in a numbered, signed edition, is that statement at its most concentrated and intentional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRecent Bethel Heights Chardonnay has drawn scores as high as 97 from Decanter, and the 2024 follows a run of critically acclaimed releases. Expect the estate's characteristic balance of restraint and richness: stone fruit, white flower, and a mineral salinity that is the unmistakable signature of Jory soil Chardonnay, knit together by the kind of structure that comes only from old vines and careful hands. This is one of Oregon's most compelling white wines, made in a quantity so small the number is printed right on the label.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"First Bottle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53484684542249,"sku":"2000472","price":239.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/2706\/8457\/files\/BethelHeightsWillametteValleyWineAuctionChardonnayWillametteValley2024_2000472_FB_Rack.jpg?v=1789504578","url":"https:\/\/firstbottlewines.com\/products\/bethel-heights-willamette-valley-wine-auction-chardonnay-willamette-valley-2024","provider":"First Bottle Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}