2011 Le Cadeau Pinot Noir Rocheux Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  5/4/2021 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points

  I've always been a fan of the 2011 Oregon vintage even though the critics panned it for it less ripeness. For my palate the "off vintages" can often offset some of domestic PNs worst tendencies and instead result in a truer expression of PNs best qualities sans over ripeness and elevated Alcs. I relish "off vintages" in Oregon and 2011 has been a good friend. This is especially true here. I believe the Le Cadeau Reserve saw more new oak on the front end. Waiting 10yrs has paid off with the oak fully resolved and the terroir shining through. Opened 3 hrs prior to dinner, found everything open & pleasing so simply slow oxed in Reidel Burgs and btl the rest of the way. Served in the high 50s very low 60s temp. Label states a modest 13.1% alc. Terrific aromatics of roses and evolving underbrush. Sips are resolved with plenty of lift and a relatively weightless array of bing cherry, sois bois, mineral, spice and earth. Took on more & more tertiary harmonics with time in glass. Color started out semi translucent ruby and later showing more bricking. Loved it! Then winemaker for this cuvee had worked with Ted Lemon previously and it shows.

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  10/17/2016 - Motz wrote: 91 Points

  Quite concentrated and ripe for the vintage. Leaning to the modern style.

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  11/8/2014 - cuffthis wrote: flawed

  This bottle seemed to suffer from bottle shock. Very cloudy in appearance, the acidity was way high and out of balance, almost biting in its level.
  
  Tasted at a special Le Cadeau Older Vintages dinner outside Wilmington, DE that I co-hosted at a friends house. Tom & Deb Mortimer, the owners of Le Cadeau, joined us to taste these treasures that all the attendees brought from their personal cellars.

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