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Fall 2023 Chardonnay Club

We’re getting asked more and more often for Chardonnay, and as the favorite grape of Winemaker Jim Maresh it’s about time we start a wine club for Chardonnay. Introducing the Maresh Red Barn Chardonnay Wine Club, offering Arterberry Maresh and Tan Fruit Chardonnays.

These Chardonnays are among the most acclaimed wines in the country offering rich dynamic fruit while maintaining tension and freshness. Extremely versatile wines at the table – a cold bottle of Chardonnay is a great idea and handy to have.

Wines

one bottle each of:

Arterberry Maresh Maresh Vineyard Chardonnay 2018 $69

Arterberry Maresh Maresh Vineyard Chardonnay 2019 $69

Petite Tan Fruit $19

Tan Fruit Cuvée Chardonnay 2021 $42.50

Tan Fruit Tank Fruit Chardonnay 2019 $69

Tn Fruit White Walnut Chardonnay 2021 $80

total $353.50 With 10% discount, $318
Shipping is additional $35

Arterberry Maresh Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard 2018 $69

Wine Advocate 96 Points

The 2018 Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard manages power and elegance, with gunﬂint notes that ﬂush out to pure roasted almonds, saline, white ﬂowers and apple fruit on the nose. The palate oﬀers intense, savory ﬂavor layers in an elegant, satin-like frame, with dynamic acidity and a long, ethereal ﬁnish. This has the ﬂesh and structure to age very well in bottle.

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Arterberry Maresh Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard 2019 $69

Wine Advocate 96+points

The 2019 Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard was matured for 22 months—16 months in one-year-old Damy barrels and six months in stainless steel. It’s deeply scented of roasted almonds, honey and beeswax with perfumed quince fruits and hints of flint and mushroom. Satiny in texture, pure and youthfully tangy, it has tremendous energy and textural presence, and it will continue to develop well in bottle over the next decade.

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Arterberry Maresh Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard 2018 $69

Wine Advocate 96 Points

Petite Tan Fruit $19

Club Exclusive

Made in the style of petit chablis, stainless steel fermented and bone dry with alcohol at 12%, this is a simple and refreshing chardonnay.

Tan Fruit Chardonnay Cuvée 2021 $42.50

Wine Advocate 97 points

The 2021 Chardonnay Cuvée Tan Fruit comes from Dijon vines in the Maresh Vineyard, planted on a south-facing slope in 1991, plus a number of other sources around Willamette Valley. Bottled a few months earlier than the other Tan Fruit Chardonnays, its savory aromas explode from the glass: a core of peachy fruit is streaked with touches of candle smoke, matchstick, pie crust and floral tones. Medium-bodied, seamless and satiny, it flows effortlessly through the mouth with both depth of flavor and freshness. It has a pleasing touch of grip to anchor the long finish and feels like it has more to give as it unwinds in bottle over the next several years. Around 1,000 cases were made.

Tan Fruit Chardonnay Tank 2019 $69

Wine Advocate 99 points

The Chardonnay Tank Fruit comes from the same Oak Grove fruit as that vineyard designate, but was aged a bit longer, with 12 months in oak and another 12 months in stainless steel. It is pure, ultra perfumed, intense and layered, with alluring white peaches and lilac interwoven with cashews and honeycomb on the nose. The palate derives incredible energy from the push-pull of those deeper tones with salty, energetic acidity, and it finishes with extraordinary length.

Tan Fruit Chardonnay White Walnut 2021 $80

Wine Advocate 99 points

White Walnut is a relatively new vineyard comprising eight acres planted around 2015 in the Dundee Hills. “The genetics that produced this is rare,” winemaker Jim Maresh explains, noting that the diverse clonal material in this vineyard includes 10 different heritage selections. The 2021 Chardonnay White Walnut Vineyard was fermented in oak and finished in stainless steel—the opposite of the Tank Fruit cuvée, which is also made from White Walnut fruit but fermented in stainless steel and finished in oak.

Exoticism is the word I come back to again and again with this wine, which is extraordinarily expressive, singular and completely addicting. It offers very pure aromas of lemon meringue, candied peach, crème brûlée and candle smoke, with intense, honeyed undertones. The palate is satiny and sensuous, like a spatula smoothing the frosting on a cake. It has a concentrated, peachy core framed by streaks of flint, and its focused acidity drives all that exotic flavor into a hauntingly long finish. I’ve never tasted another Chardonnay quite like this!.