Oomrang estate spotlight
Wine Access presents Oomrang Estate from the Puget Sound house of Edmund and Christine Stoecklein, the same estate behind this Sylvaner.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2023 Oomrang Estate Sylvaner Puget Sound across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $64.71 and the average is $64.71. Our slash is $65.00.
2023 Oomrang Estate Sylvaner Puget Sound, USA
Rare estate Sylvaner from cool Puget Sound, citrus blossom and mineral snap, a 2023 you can actually use at the table.
The 2023 Oomrang Sylvaner brings straw-green snap, citrus blossom, pear, fresh-cut grass, and a clean mineral line, now $65.
A Washington white nobody sees coming
This is not another anonymous crisp white. It is estate-grown Sylvaner from a small Puget Sound producer built around rare German varieties. Stainless steel keeps the discovery sharp. Crab cakes, roast chicken, and weeknight seafood all get an upgrade.
The house
Oomrang is a family estate for German whites that almost no one else in Washington bottles.
The wine
100% Sylvaner, six months stainless steel, 12% ABV. Citrus, pear, herbs, mineral.
The grape
Sylvaner is still rare on this coast. Here it drinks crisp and savory rather than sweet.
The drinker
Serve 45 to 50 F. Crab cakes with lemon aioli or tarragon chicken.
Citrus blossom, pear, then the mineral snap
Straw-green in the glass. Citrus blossom, pear, fresh-cut grass, a clean mineral line that makes seafood feel instantly better.
A cool year that favors herbal, mineral whites. Six months in stainless steel keeps 2023 Sylvaner sharp.
Citrus blossom, pear, fresh-cut grass, a stony mineral note.
Crisp, light, 12% ABV, six months stainless steel.
Clean and mineral. Serve 45 to 50 F. No decant.
Stainless steel keeps the discovery sharp
The winemaking choice is restraint: six months in stainless steel so fruit, herbs, and mineral stay visible. Oak would hide the grape. Oomrang does not hide the grape.
Sylvaner is a German variety that can taste like citrus, herbs, and stone when it is farmed cool and kept off oak. That is the brief here.
Pull it from the fridge ten minutes before pouring. Serve 45 to 50 F.
From a basement experiment to a rare-variety estate
Oomrang's story is the kind of small-producer discovery that makes a wine like this fun.
The Stoeckleins planted Sylvaner because they wanted German whites that could take Puget Sound's cool air and still finish dry.
The estate remains tiny. That is why you almost never see this grape from Washington.
The 2023 is the bottle to keep cold all season: mineral, herbal, and built for crab.
Crab cakes, then tarragon chicken
Sylvaner's citrus and herbal edge want sweet shellfish or a lemon-herb roast.
Two plates. One crab cake with lemon aioli. One tarragon chicken with asparagus and leeks.
Serve 45 to 50 F with no decant. Pull it from the fridge 10 minutes before pouring.
Crab Cakes with Lemon Aioli
Sweet shellfish, light crunch, lemony richness. The coastal lane this wine wants.
Why it works: Citrus, pear, and mineral snap cut the aioli and echo the crab's briny sweetness.
View Recipe for crab cakes with lemon aioli (opens in a new tab)
Tarragon Chicken with Asparagus, Lemon, and Leeks
Roasted chicken gives the wine something savory. Tarragon, lemon, and spring vegetables keep it lifted.
Why it works: Sylvaner's herbal edge mirrors tarragon and leeks. The crisp finish refreshes the roast.
View Recipe for tarragon chicken with asparagus (opens in a new tab)Keep this rare white cold all season
Estate Sylvaner, stainless steel, citrus and mineral. Sixty-five dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is the discovery white you buy as a case, not a single bottle.
