Atomique³ Willamette Valley Chardonnay Le Basalt 2021 PURYEARSALE all crushed violets and wild

all crushed violets and wild berry fruit over a mineral core

it offers pleasure now while promising several years of development

for decades

From 40-year-old Gamay vines planted on clay-limestone soils in southern Burgundy

Atomique³ Willamette Valley Chardonnay Le Basalt 2021 PURYEARSALE all crushed violets and wildAtomique3 is a small Willamette Valley project built around a simple, geeky premise: what if you took the same Chardonnay grapes and bottled the soils side by side? Le Basalt comes from blocks planted on volcanic basaltthe dark, iron rich bedrock of the Eola Amity Hills and the high benches of the valley. The result is the more structured, mineral, and savory of the pair, with a flinty edge and a tight, linear shape. Lovers of taut, Chablisien