Winemaker Notes
The wine reveals a bright and pronounced garnet color, and a complex nose of black cherry, blueberry, raspberry, mind, violet flower, and noble essences of wood. On the palate, the wine shows a beautiful structure, a powerful energy, a perfect harmony worthy of the greatest. The delicate aftertaste, on mineral notes, promises a great longevity.
Pairs well with grilled or roasted red meats, game and poultry.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
The Resonance Vineyard is a treasure, with the own-rooted Pommard clone Pinot Noir planted in 1981, along with later plantings of Wädenswil and Dijon clone 777, all certified organic. The fruit is destemmed and gently extracted before long aging to produce this wine with pronounced aromas of black cherry and exotic spice with a hint of smoke from the Cadus barrels. Powerful and structured, this should last for years to come.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
When I visited Résonance, the 2021 Résonance Vineyard Pinot Noir hadn't yet been blended, so winemaker Guillaume Large and I tasted through several different barrels representing single clones, blocks and winemaking techniques like whole-cluster inclusion. Each of the barrels offered unique, pure expressions, although some of the components seemed to shine brighter than the rest. It's been a decade since Jadot purchased the vineyard, and I expect they will continue to work to identify the most promising blocks across the property. A preliminary blend of the components illustrates the promise of the vineyard and the vintage. It has aromas of cranberr sauce and red cherries with streaks of iron and flint, cracked pepper, charcuterie and tobacco leaves. The light-bodied palate is delicately styled yet offers notable concentration for its weight. Finely chalky, very refreshing, with layered, perfumed berry fruit, it has a long, nuanced finish. Around 1,700 to 1,800 cases will be produced.
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Wine Enthusiast
The vineyard for which the winery was named dates back to the early 1980s and was often the featured reserve in Sineann's Pinot portfolio. Now owned by Maison Louis Jadot, it's turned a style corner, and the wines are dark, earthy, tannic and brooding. Stiff and spicy beetroot, cranberry and black cherry flavors hold down the center, and there is concentrated power coiled there, which may need considerable time to unwind. Drink this after 2025.
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Wine Spectator
Jammed with tension, this vibrant red offers well-defined cherry, raspberry and rose petal accents that are laced with hints of mineral, building structure toward refined tannins.
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.