Pinot Noir
– undoubtedly my most favourite grape variety! Spätburgunder – or in my language: Teutonic Pinot Noir – well, how shall I put it …? Maybe not that undoubtful might be the most diplomatic version! Especially concerning those high-end representatives! Various
overambitious characteristics like over-oaking, toasting issues, over
extraction, jamy fruit, lots of alc. etc. in plenty - not all, of course - of those high-end Spätburgunders
provide me with head-shaking and other feelings I better won’t bring up ...! In my opinon there is far more quality to find in the entry- and mid-range-level sphere of Spätburgunder. Anyway, that's my opinon ... don't know what you guys on the net think!?
Today I’d
like to give an high-end Pinot Noir from Teutonia a chance to show me different
qualities. The representative for my endeavour: Bürgstädter Centgrafenberg
Spätbugunder R 2007 from Weingut Paul Fürst. Since the early 1980s Paul
Fürst is the Spätburgunder-Beacon from Mainviereck region in the very west of Bavaria. In recent
decades the Pinot Noirs and Frühburgunders from his most famous parcels in
Centgrafenberg (southwest facing red sandstone and clay vineyards, altitude between 150 to 250 meters) haven’t had
any problems to show paramount examples of fantastic and highly mineral driven Teutonic
Pinot Noir. Let’s check this one out …
