Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with poultry or red meat, as well with heavier seafood and roasted vegetables.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This is the second release this year from Maison Louis Jadot's Oregon project—both wines are labeled Résonance, but this is the Willamette Valley cuvée, not the Résonance vineyard bottling. Some estate fruit is included, and it is a subtle and detailed wine, with pretty mulberry and pie-cherry fruit. Thirteen months in 20% new French oak adds light mocha highlights, and it is as smooth and refined as one might expect from master winemaker Jacques Lardière.
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James Suckling
Aromas of cherries, plums and dried flowers. Nice combination of fine acidity complemented by soft tannins. Fruity and pretty.
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Wine Spectator
Supple, velvety and expressive, layering the cherry and blackberry fruit with hints of tobacco, tar and dried flowers. Finishes with precision and length, creating a warm balance. Drink now through 2022. 1,300 cases made.
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Tasting Panel
A Louis Jadot project in Oregon-their first outside France- with wines made by the renowned Jaques Lardiere.This ripe and balanced Pinot shows deep cherry and spice, rich and long on the finish.
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.