Atomique³ Willamette Valley Chardonnay Le Basalt 2021 PET-NAT In its right place

In its right place

Sweet Gwendoline undergoes four distillations

blended with a splash of still Bouzy red for its delicate salmon color

citrus blossom

no “botanical overload

Atomique³ Willamette Valley Chardonnay Le Basalt 2021 PET-NAT In its right placeAtomique3 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