"Seth Morgen Long is crafting exciting Chardonnay in the Willamette Valley. After a failed plan to work a harvest at Domaine Dujac in Burgundy, Seth ended up at Domaine de Montille. “I’m so glad I didn’t go to Dujac, because they don’t really make white wine,” he says. “At de Montille, I learned what Chardonnay was."
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Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate
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". . .The wine is beautifully expressive on the nose, offering up scents of pear, almond, a complex base of salty soil tones, apple blossoms, a hint of iodine and a suave foundation of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full bodied, crisp and beautifully balanced, with a lovely core, superb soil signature, zesty acids and a long, focused and complex finish. This is a touch more refined in personality than the very good 2018 version and is a lovely bottle of chardonnay. It is still a fairly young wine, but decanting it opens it up nicely and it is hardly a crime to be drinking it now."93John Gilman, View From the Cellar |
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"This is the second release of the “Memorie” bottling of chardonnay from Seth Long. The wine is produced from a solera that Seth started with in the 2015 vintage (with just a whisper of 2014 juice added at the outset), so it is a multi vintage blend that will get more complex with each passing year. The fruit comes from seven different vineyards and the blend is now composed of six different vintages, so it is progressing geometrically at this point. The breakdown of vintages in the blend this year runs thus: 21% 2019, 22 % 2018, 23% 2017, 10% 2016, 23% 2015 and a whisper of 2014 juice. The wine offers up a beautiful nose, wafting from the glass in a blend of apple, lemon, hazelnut, a complex base of soil elements, honeysuckle, citrus zest and a hint of oak. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core, fine soil undertow, zesty acids and a long, poised and beautifully balanced finish. I love the backend lift here! Unlike several of the youthful 2019s from Seth this year, the Memorie II is drinking just splendidly right from the outset and will require no patience before it is savored. However, it has an excellent spine of acidity and will have no difficulties also aging gracefully in bottle! Stunning juice."
John Gilman, View From the Cellar |
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"The 2019 Seven Springs Vineyard bottling of chardonnay from Seth Long is another superb effort from him in this top flight vintage. This is the youngest and most reductive of Seth’s 2019s and demands decanting time, if one is inclined to drink it early on. However, with thirty minutes in decanter, it does start to budge a bit and eventually delivers a nose of pear, apple, iodine, a very pretty base of soil, hints of almond, white flowers and a deft touch of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and tightly-knit, with an excellent core and mineral drive, vibrant acids and excellent focus and grip on the long, primary and promising finish. Today, the wine is most impressive on the backend, where it has enormous lift and energy. Once this wine blossoms, it is going to be stellar, but it will need some cellaring to open up properly."
John Gilman, View From the Cellar |
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"This is Seth Long’s oldest vine bottling, as this block of ungrafted chardonnay vines was planted by David Lett in 1968. . .The bouquet is pure and youthful, with a gently reductive personality eventually revealing scents of lemon, pear, a complex base of salty soil tones, citrus zest, fresh almond, a dollop of iodine, fruit blossoms and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and still quite primary in personality, with great depth at the core, superb soil inflection, zesty acids and a long, vibrant and extremely promising finish. This is still a puppy and needs bottle age to allow its secondary layers to emerge, but it will be flat out brilliant once it is truly ready to drink."
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