Winemaker Notes
Deep and intense garnet color. The nose is elegant and delicate, with a lot of black fruit, delicate spices, and a touch of fine oak. The palate is supple, full-bodied, and particularly well-balanced. The Résonance Vineyard terroir imparts its signature minerality and tannic structure, an effect known as “polished tannins.” The aromatic concentration is remarkable, with black cherry, blackberry, and blueberry aromas. The finish is very long, harmonious, and fresh.
Pairs well with grilled or roasted red meats, game and poultry.
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
Luscious and refreshing, this tangy, satisfying, and balanced wine possesses an elegant and opulent style. It's quite Burgundian, which is unsurprising considering winemaking is overseen by famed Jadot veteran Jacques Lardiere.
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James Suckling
Lots of plum essence to this pinot noir as well as dark peaches, raspberry crumble, blackberries and strawberries. Medium- to full-bodied with impressive concentration and depth, velvety tannins and tangy fruit. Chewy finish. Drink in 2020.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2015 Résonance Pinot Noir, Résonance Vineyard is bright, lively, and well-balanced. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers attractive aromas and flavors of blue fruits and savory spices. Enjoy with pan-fried salmon fillets. (Tasted: February 17, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium ruby, the 2015 Résonance Vineyard Pinot Noir is scented of baked blackberries, blueberry coulis, toasted coconut, autumn leaves and dried violets with hints of earth and a classy framing of sweet spice. It’s medium-bodied and silky with more restraint in the mouth. It has a grainy frame and juicy acidity, finishing long and floral.
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Wine Enthusiast
This is the estate vineyard bottling from Maison Jadot's Oregon project. The 2015 is sharp and peppery, with dark fruits, supple acids and hints of char and smoke. The tannins, at first a bit gritty, smooth out with some hours of breathing time.
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Wine Spectator
Broad-shouldered and rather brooding, with blackberry and crushed rock aromas and concentrated black cherry and savory spice flavors that linger toward nubby tannins. Best after 2018.
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.