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2021 Jolete Pinot Noir Le Verre Cuvee Willamette Valley 750 ml
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One of Willamette Valley’s Best-Kept Secrets
Joleté first got our attention a few years back: Fresh off tasting triple-digit showpiece Burgundies and single-vineyard Dundee gems at the Willamette Valley’s International Pinot Noir Celebration, we ordered a glass at Bistro Maison in McMinnville. The way it impressed us made it THE must-have Pinot of that trip.
Once we looked into Joleté, the quality shouldn’t have surprised us. It’s the under-the-radar brand of the team behind Le Cadeau, which has racked up a bevy of 90+ scores from Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator. It’s proprietor Tom Mortimer’s go-to, restaurant-only wine that has been poured by the glass for many years in places like Tucci in Lake Oswego, Parc Restaurant in Philadelphia, and the Oregon Grille in Baltimore. Thanks to our longstanding relationship with Le Cadeau and Tom, he graciously agreed to peel off just enough cases for our Unfiltered Club, and not a bottle more!
Le Verre Cuvée is a bit of an NDA wine these days for Tom, custom-made and blended with his input. It’s 100% Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, sourced from six top-tier—but confidential—hillside vineyards. The breakdown is approximately 45% Ribbon Ridge, 45% Yamhill-Carlton, and 10% from Le Cadeau Estate, on Parrett Mountain in the Chehalem Mountains AVA. Le Cadeau Estate is probably the rockiest site we have ever seen in Oregon, especially in the “Rocheux” parcel, where the vines look like they’ve burst from piles of fractured basalt.
This is a stunner that shows off everything we love about the Willamette Valley!