Choix du Coeur
After the harvest is over, and our Pinot noir is resting gently in the barrel for over a year, our winemaking team will regularly taste and evaluate how that vintage is coming along from both Résonance and Découverte vineyards. Eventually, small differences arise from barrel to barrel, and it becomes impossible to not pick favorites. The Choix du Cœur wines are the result – meaning “Heart’s Choice,” these extraordinary bottles come from a scant five barrels from each vineyard that stood out from the rest until our winemakers had to just follow their hearts, and create this limited cuvée.
2018 Choix du Coeur Découverte Vineyard Pinot Noir
Jacques Lardière and Guillaume Large, our winemakers, have selected together the five best barrels of our Découverte Vineyard in the Dundee Hills AVA : our Heart’s Choice. These five barrels (2 new, 2 of one year old and 1 of two year old) came from the Block Four, old Pommard planted in 1996, and they have been aged in French oak barrels (Cadus) for 19 months. Bottled in May 2020.
2018 Choix du Coeur Résonance Vineyard Pinot Noir
Jacques Lardière and Guillaume Large, our winemakers, have selected together the five best barrels of our Résonance Vineyard, Yamhill Carlton AVA : our Heart’s Choice. These five barrels (2 new, 2 of one year old and 1 of two year old) came from the Block 5, old Pommard planted in 1981 and un-graffted, and they have been aged in French oak barrels (Cadus) for 19 months. Bottled in May 2020.
