Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with lightly seasoned red meats, chicken, turkey, lamb, and root vegetables.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2014 Résonance Pinot Noir, Découverte Vineyard is loaded with lovely and bright fruit that stays lively on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine brings aromas and flavors of candied apple, red berries, and mineral notes. Enjoy it with fresh salmon hand-rolls. (Tasted: February 17, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
Floral raspberry and loamy mineral aromas open to complex and precise cherry and orange zest flavors that finish with refined but steely tannins. Drink now through 2022.
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.”
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.