Krya Vayots Dzor Poqr 2022 CRV and the 2023 leans into

and the 2023 leans into that with white peach and acacia framing the classic oyster-shell core

leafy and savory

Seth Morgen Long started making wine in 2014 with a singular vision: site-sensitive Chardonnay from the Willamette Valley's finest vineyards

distinctly southern-cone white: ripe stone fruit

and the wines turn from plush to cool-toned and crystalline

Krya Vayots Dzor Poqr 2022 CRV and the 2023 leans intoTatevik Gabrielyan grew up in Vernashen, left Armenia at eighteen to study winemaking in Switzerland, met her partner Jean Paul Berger there, and came home to make wine on her grandfather's abandoned vineyards. The winery is an old cheese factory built on 70 year old vines, and it's named Krya, Armenian for turtle: wisdom, patience, longevity. Poqr means "small," and it's a red field blend of Areni alongside grapes most of us have never heard of,