2021 Le Cadeau Pinot Noir Rocheux

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92 points

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  9/6/2023 - oldwines Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tasted at the “in town” tasting room in Dundee, OR which is a useful experience as this winery is rather complex to fully understand with its multiple winemakers and unique but varied “terroir” and history. I can’t do a lot of justice to that here but I would recommend it for a good understanding for what their wines are all about. This wine is made roughly from equal, nearly half, parts Pommard and Dijon 777 clones with a splash of Wädenswil. It was 15% whole cluster fermented and was aged in mostly previously used French oak barrels. 13.4% ABV. Classic medium ruby color. Nose of roses, vanilla, violets, and strawberry bramble. Palate has vibrant acidity and freshness with cherry, strawberry, wet stones and somewhat sappy extract but is a little short on the finish. Nice wine with room to improve with age.

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  5/17/2023 - Martin Redmond wrote: 92 Points

  Wines of the Week: Le Cadeau: Pale ruby color with aromatic pomegranate, blueberry, plum, floral, cola, clay, and baking spice aromas. On the palate, it's lean, with crisp acidity and well integrated fine-grained tannins. It shows pomegranate, blueberry red plum, earth, black tea and spice flavors with a long mineral tinged dafinish. 13.5% abv|SRP - $60|184 cases
  
  Fruit for this wine is sourced from the rockiest portion of their estate vineyard planted on soils with a high content of volcanic basalt. Raised in French Oak for 12 months. Dijon 777, Pommard, Wadenswil clones

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