Domaine Albert Boxler Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Dudenstein 2023 CS20230516 This elegant Willamette Valley Chardonnay

This elegant Willamette Valley Chardonnay is aged 11 months in French oak with subtle barrel influence

overlooked corner up near Chablis that's actually dedicated to Pinot Noir

It's fuller-bodied and structured but taut and energetic

concrete eggs and older casks

and a pronounced saline minerality

Domaine Albert Boxler Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Dudenstein 2023 CS20230516 This elegant Willamette Valley ChardonnaySommerberg sits just out the back door of the Boxler winery, a granite wall pitched at roughly 45 degrees that the family works by hand because nothing else is possible. Dudenstein is the parcel where that granite gives way to limestone and sandstone, planted with vines that went into the ground in 1946 and 1953. The extra geological complexity shows up as depth: this is the fullest, most layered of Boxler's Sommerberg bottlings, concentrated but