2019 Walter Scott Chardonnay Cuvee Lucille Eola-Amity Hills (750ml)

We have been planning to bottle a wine called Lucille since the first time we heard Lucy’s heartbeat during an ultrasound. From the moment Lucy became mobile, she has walked vineyards, kicked dirt, and sampled grapes alongside us. Freedom Hill Vineyard has always been a special place for her, with tall, hanging trellis blocks of old, twisted Chardonnay vines that she would dart underneath, while chasing the dogs and tasting the fruit as she wove through the maze of vines. She would exclaim ‘Dad, I like the red grapes, but I really like the white ones!’.Ken has had the fortune to work with Freedom Hill Vineyard since his first harvest in 1995 and we began working with the fruit as Walter Scott in 2012. Originally we were sourcing just a single acre of Chardonnay along with our Pinot noir blocks, but in 2017 we were offered an acre of old vine Chardonnay also planted in 1995. Since the beginning we knew this block was special and have worked closely with Dustin Duschee and his family to