Le Cadeau Vineyard Rocheux Pinot Noir 2015

Pinot Noir from Willamette Valley, Oregon

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Product Details

Varietal

Pinot Noir

Region

Willamette Valley, Oregon

Producer

Le Cadeau Vineyard

Vintage

2015

Size

750ML

ABV

14.1%

Features

Boutique

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Winemaker Notes

The Rocheux cuvee is sourced from the rockiest portion of our estate – the warmer Western slope of the vineyard, an area high in content of volcanic basalt found throughout the soil.

The 2015 Rocheux features red berry and candied rose scents, with a smoky mineral accent. It is energetic and displays a mineral-driven persistence on the finish.

Professional Ratings

92 Wine Spectator
Refined and expressive, with an elegant complexity, offering floral raspberry aromas and persistent strawberry, green tea and spiced cinnamon flavors. Drink now through 2025.
92 Wine Enthusiast
The name refers to the rocks in this section of the estate vineyard, and they can be felt as well as tasted in the wine. The mouthfeel is slightly astringent, with hints of metal and stone, and the alcohol is muted, allowing the more subtle suggestions of citrus and beet and truffle and wild strawberry to emerge. All in all it's the most complex and intriguing of the winery's offerings, and merits your full attention.
Editors' Choice
92 James Suckling
There is actually quite a lot of peppermint on the nose here as well as vanilla, cedar and strawberries and spices. The palate is full and muscular with round tannins, a fine thread of acidity and a fruit-forward, chewy finish. Needs time. Drink in 2020.
90 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Pale to medium ruby colored, the 2015 Pinot Noir Rocheux has an appealing warm cranberry and cherry pie-laced nose with touches of cinnamon stick, violets and dark chocolate. Medium-bodied, it has a plush frame of soft tannins and just enough acid to support the generous spicy fruit, finishing with good length.

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2016

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2013

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Le Cadeau Vineyard

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Founders Deb and Tom Mortimer began looking for Willamette Valley property in 1996. A year later they found an uncultivated parcel on the south slope of Parrett Mountain, just a few miles east of Newberg, Oregon, in the Chehalem Mountains AVA. Ten acres were cleared in 1997 and eleven acres in 1998. An incredible view south to Salem and the Eola hills emerged. In 1999, six acres of Pinot noir were planted. The initial plantings included roughly 1.75 acres each of Pommard and Dijon clones 667 and 777. A ¾-acre mixed-clone block of Mariafeld (a Swiss Pinot noir clone), Pommard, and Dijon clones 777, 113, and 115 was also planted. Subsequent plantings of Pommard and assorted heritage clones from California increased the size of the vineyard to its current sixteen acres. From the beginning, the character of Le Cadeau Vineyard was apparent. The aromatics were fresh and intense. The fruit flavors were pure and deep. There were hints of Asian spices mingled with an earthiness not often found in young Pinot noir wines. Those core characteristics remain today, regardless of the vintage or the winemaking. Truly extraordinary winemakers from Oregon and beyond have collaborated with Le Cadeau and made excellent wines, but increasingly the adage rings true: Great Pinot noir is made in the vineyard. New clones and rootstocks have been added while farming practices have been pushed to ever-higher standards. As we move into our second decade of winegrowing in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, we’re confident that our best wines are yet to come. Le Cadeau Pinot noir is all about this very special and unique vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains. We showcase various attributes of the vineyard–clones, soils, and aspect–by bottling small production cuveés from different sections of the vineyard.

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Willamette Valley Pinot Noir

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Home of some of the planet’s most amazingly elegant and expressive Pinot noir, the Willamette Valley is a pastoral, mixed landscape of green, bucolic rolling hills, dramatic forestlands and small, independent, friendly wine growers. As a leader in environmental stewardship, the valley has some of the nation’s most protective land use policies, with two-thirds of its vineyards farmed sustainably and over half, organically. While the valley claims a cool, continental climate, and is heavily influenced by the cold, moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, its warm and dry summers allow for the steady, even ripening of Pinot noir.

The potential of Willamette Valley Pinot noir continues to attract the investment of serious growers and winemakers both locally and from abroad, as naturally the finished wines bring accolades from professionals and enthusiasts. With a range of styles from delicate dried cherry, raspberry and hibiscus to stronger notes of truffle, mocha, plum and spice, a fine Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a perfect expression of both character and grace.

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