Atomique³ Willamette Valley Chardonnay Le Basalt 2021 PET-NAT using six-row Indian barley smoked

using six-row Indian barley smoked with imported Scottish peat to approximately 25 ppm

citrus blossom

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

If Montmains is the steely sibling

Atomique³ Willamette Valley Chardonnay Le Basalt 2021 PET-NAT using six-row Indian barley smokedAtomique3 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