Constant Crush Willamette Valley Chardonnay 2024

The 2024 Constant Crush Chardonnay is a beautifully textured, mineral-driven expression of Willamette Valley Chardonnay. Rich and layered, it offers a compelling combination of citrus and orchard fruit with nutty, lees-driven complexity and a distinctive saline quality. Bright acidity provides balance and energy while a long, savory finish leaves a lasting impression.

Sourced from exceptional cool-climate vineyards across Oregon’s Willamette Valley, this Chardonnay showcases the region’s potential for producing wines with both concentration and freshness. The grapes were whole-cluster pressed through a long, slow press cycle to extract maximum texture and phenolic character before settling overnight and transferring to barrels for native-yeast fermentation. Approximately 35% of the wine fermented in new Jura forest puncheons, providing additional lees contact and complexity. The wine completed full malolactic fermentation in barrel and spent 20 months aging on its lees, developing its deep mineral character, nutty richness and long salty finish.

Constant Crush is the wine and consulting project of Bree Stock MW and Chad Stock, the creative minds behind Limited Addition Wines. With more than two decades of international wine experience, Master of Wine Bree Stock brings extensive industry knowledge while Chad contributes his expertise in winemaking and alternative grape varieties. Through Constant Crush, the pair explore exceptional vineyard sites and traditional regional varieties, crafting thoughtful, minimal-intervention wines that showcase the diversity and potential of Oregon.