By Resonance Wines
Resonance Vineyard Pinot Noir

Background
This is Maison Louis Jadot's first project in Oregon. This estate-grown single vineyard Pinot Noir is the signature expression of our Resonance Vineyard.

Vineyard Details
Resonance Vineyard is the heart of our project, boasting the oldest soil in the Yamhill-Carlton area of Oregon's Willamette Valley, which has unique minerality. Planted in 1981 on south-facing slopes in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA with three original clonal selections - Pommard, Dijon 777, and Wadenswil - all own-rooted (ungrafted) and phylloxera-free, it offers a pure expression of place. The vineyard sits on a convex portion of a low, west-east oriented ridge emerging out of the Coast Range and lies at an altitude of 80 to 150 meters above sea level. Soils are primarily Willakenzie (old sedimentary deposits) and Yamhill (ancient submarine basaltic soil). The vineyard benefits from dry farming, ensuring a qualitative yield that highlights this exceptional site's true character. Our Resonance Vineyard Pinot Noir reveals the immense character and "somewhereness" of this historic property.

Production
Our Pinot Noir grapes are handpicked just steps from the winery and hand-sorted upon arrival. During elevage, we control the juice with a light touch honed over 170 years of winemaking in Burgundy, boosting each vintage to achieve its most natural elegance and complexity.
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Wine: Resonance 2014 Resonance Vineyard Pinot Noir (Yamhill-Carlton)
Score/Rating: 94 - Cellar Selection
Suggested Drinking Window: Drink from 2022 to 2030
Review Date: 06/01/2017
Reviewed By: Paul Gregutt
Tasting Notes: This exceptional vineyard, more than 35-years-old, brings a wealth of subtle details to a wine that has both grace and power. There's truffle, earth, mocha, plum, spice, coffee and on and on it goes, all well integrated already. Experience would suggest that wines from this vineyard, previously made for Sineann, are exceptionally ageworthy. Drink now if you must, or cellar and drink from 2022 to 2030.

Wine: Resonance, Resonance Vineyard Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, 2014
Score/Rating: 94
Suggested Drinking Window: 2017 - 2027
Reviewed By: William Kelley
Tasting Notes: A complex bouquet of pot pourri, black cherry, orange rind, cocoa and spice is followed by a full-bodied, savoury wine framed by fine but firm tannins with good depth and balancing acidity. Jadot have really hit the ground running in Oregon.

Wine: RESONANCE Pinot Noir, Resonance Vineyard 2014
Score/Rating: 93
Suggested Drinking Window: 2017 - 2028
Review Date: 04/2017
Reviewed By: OB
Tasting Notes: The 2014 Resonance Vineyard Pinot Noir is a gorgeous showing from this estate. This beautiful wine offers an engaging bouquet of wet stones, peat moss, forest floor, black truffle oil, wild blackberry and cigar box. The aromatics are simply intoxicating. On the [palate] there are delicious flavors of black tea, wild blackberry preserves, black tea, black truffle and suggestions of cranberries which all come together seamlessly. Deep, seductive and earthy, this compelling Pinot Noir will have an excellent future ahead.

Wine: Resonance 2014 Pinot Noir Resonance Vineyard
Score/Rating: 92
Review Date: 09/2017
Reviewed By: Josh Raynolds
Tasting Notes: (aged in 50% new oak) Brilliant red. Deep-pitched red fruit preserve, cola, spicecake and floral pastille aromas are lifted and sharpened by a smoky mineral note. Intense, palate-staining raspberry and bitter cherry flavors show a spine of juicy acidity and slowly tighten up and become sweeter with aeration. Combines power and finesse with a deft hand and finishes impressively long, displaying excellent focus and a suave floral quality.

Wine: Resonance 2014 Pinot Noir - Resonance Vineyard  
Score/Rating: 92
Review Date: 01/15/2017
Tasting Notes: There is ample earth and briar characters to the relatively somber but fresh dark berry fruit, forest floor and discreet spice scents. I very much like the sleek, even satiny mouth feel of the mid-palate as well as the lovely verve displayed by the middle weight flavors that deliver fine complexity on the bitter cherry-inflected finale. This moderately firm effort is presently somewhat youthfully austere but I suspect that will dissipate with a few years of bottle age. I would also expect the complexity to increase as well and overall, this is worth checking out provided that you intend to cellar it.

Wine: Resonance Pinot Noir Yamhill-Carlton District Resonance Vineyard 2014
Score/Rating: 91
Review Date: 09/30/2017
Reviewed By: Tim Fish
Tasting Notes: Refined and savory, with delicate raspberry and wild flower aromas and trim but complex pomegranate and green tea flavors. [...]

Wine: 2014 Resonance Resonance Vineyard Pinot Noir
Score/Rating: 90
Review Date: 04/23/2020
Reviewed By: Erin Brooks
Tasting Notes: Medium ruby, the 2014 Resonance Vineyard Pinot Noir opens with notions of tar, dried lavender, wild blackberries, dried herbs and leaves plus nuances of red berries and potpourri. The palate is medium-bodied and silky with a good core of earth-laced fruits, a firm, grainy frame and juicy freshness to lift the finish.

Wine: Resonance Pinot Noir 2014 Yamhill-Carlton
Score/Rating: 16.5/20
Review Date: 05/23/2017
Reviewed By: Jancis Robinson
Tasting Notes: More richness than in the 2013 but still nothing like Burgundy! More substance than the 2013. A tad beetrooty. (JR)