Winemaker Notes
Over the years, Devil's Corner has identified certain blocks in their Hazard Vineyard that have an extra level of concentration or complexity in the fruit for the Resolution Pinot Noir. Typically a blend of six core Pinot Noir clones half of which impart generous, fleshy characters and the balance is lighter in style. Aromas of blackberry, sour cherry and hints of cedar are followed by a deep fruit-driven middle palate. Overall crisp texture and fine-grained tannins.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Resolution Pinot Noir has a rambunctious nose of cherries, strawberries and raspberries—all of it littered with exotic spice. In the mouth, the wine is layered and silky, full of red berries and saturated in flavor. A juicy, delicious wine.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Directly south of the city of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula wine region, the cool-climate island of Tasmania has earned an honorable reputation as the country’s finest producer of Sparkling Wine. Naturally the region also excels in top quality still wines from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling, all distinguished because of a high natural acidity. Most of the Tasmania vineyards cluster around the eastern side of the island from north to south.