Sonoma County - Petaluma Gap - Keller Estate ‘Oro De Plata’ Chardonnay

Over 30 years ago, the Keller family began producing organically farmed Estate wine to capture the distinct soil, topography, and climate our property. This terroir-driven philosophy enables us to guide the process from vine to bottle, creating beautifully
balanced and expressive wines with a true sense of place.

This Keller Estate Chardonnay has aromas of lychee and just ripe pineapple, followed by floral notes of white petals. In the mouth, the wine has an apple or pear skin flavour paired with a palate-cleansing astringency which gives the wine length and dimension. There are notes of leches cake and waffle cone. This wine is lively in the mouth and full of fruit flavour. Without oak contact, the true essence of the Chardonnay grape varietal is delivered here.

Oro de Plata, comprised of 100% Old Wente Clone, was carefully hand-harvested over several cold autumn nights. The fruit was gently pressed and transferred to stainless steel tanks for slow fermentation under low temperatures. After four weeks, fermentation was complete, and the wine was left in the tanks to age on the lees for three months, never undergoing malolactic fermentation. After aging, the Oro de Plata Chardonnay was filtered, then bottled using a Nomacorc 100 closure, with a specific low oxygen ingress rate.