Bethel Heights, Chardonnay Casteel, 2021 SO062326 Boulay half from the 2018 harvest

half from the 2018 harvest and half from the perpetual reserve the family has been building since 2003

keeping yields a third below appellation maximums

Myrna comes from Bald Mountain

it becomes something truly profound

and toasted almond

Bethel Heights, Chardonnay Casteel, 2021 SO062326 Boulay half from the 2018 harvestOne of Oregon's most historic estates makes one of its most thrilling Chardonnays. Bethel Heights was founded in 1977 by the Casteel brothers in the Eola Amity Hills now under second generation winemaker Ben Casteel and the Casteel Chardonnay is the family's flagship: a vintage selected bottling drawn from the oldest blocks (planted in 1977) and adjacent 1994 plantings. The 2021 captures a warm year tempered by Eola's signature coastal gap winds: