Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with grilled or roasted red meats, game, and poultry.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
The eagerly anticipated first release from Maison Louis Jadot’s Oregon project does not disappoint. Long time Jadot winemaker Jacques Lardière has put all his heart and expertise into this wine, sourced from a much-loved vineyard recently acquired by the firm. Concentrated raspberry purée comes through in both aroma and flavor, with laser focus. It’s a magical combination of finesse, silkiness and strident youth, with 20 years of aging potential. Drink now through 2035. Cellar Selection.
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Wine Spectator
Light and focused, showing distinctive subtlety. A layer of crinkly tannins underlies a pulsing core of mineral-accented cherry and red berry flavors, hinting at cinnamon as the finish lingers gently. Best from 2017 through 2023.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2013 Résonance Vineyard Pinot Noir is drinking beautifully at this age, with a lovely nose of mushroom, cinnamon, potpourri, licorice and earth with loads of floral nuances and a core of black and red berries. Medium-bodied and silky, it's just about even with its fruit and tertiary flavors, finely grained, fresh and finishing long. Beautiful. Winemaker Guillaume Large says there was a big storm just before harvest in 2013. "Jacques Lardière saw the forecast coming, and having seen vintages like that in Burgundy, he knew we shouldn't wait. We picked two hours before the storm hit and were able to get all the fruit in before the rain. It didn't stop raining again for 10 days."
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Tasting Panel
Smooth and ripe with sweet cherry, black raspberry and minerals; lush and balanced.
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.”
Yamhill-Carlton, characterized by pastoral, rolling hills composed of shallow, quick-draining, ancient marine soil, is ideal for Pinot noir and other cool-climate-loving varieties. It is in the rain shadow of the Coast Range to its west, whose highest point climbs to an altitude of 3,500 feet. Yamhill-Carlton is actually surrounded by mountains on three sides: Chehalem Mountains to the north, the Dundee Hills to the east and the western Coast Range to its west, which, when it lets Pacific air through, serves to cool the region.
Vineyards grow on the ridges surrounding the two small communities of Yamhill and Carlton and cover about 1,200 acres of this 60,000 acre region, which roughly makes a horse-shoe shape on a map.