Happening Now Tasting 8: Weingut Stadt Klingenberg Buntsandstein Spätburgunder 2011, Franken

Today I am thirsty for easy Pinot Noir! For a change, some German stuff will do nicely, I guess! Since 2010, young Benedikt Baltes is in charge of the Pinot (and of course the others) producing process at Weingut Stadt Klingenberg in Churfranken (a Franconian subregion which is predominantly famous for its redsters). The Spätburgunder Buntsandstein, with reference its type of soil – mottled sandstone, is his entry level Pinot Noir. So, let's check out how his 2011 is doing right now ...

Teutonic Tinto Part 4: Weingut Paul Fürst Spätburgunder R Bürgstadter Centgrafenberg 2007, Franken

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 …

Teutonic Tintos mit zwei Infiltranten

Meine Güte, wenn ich mir die letzten Posts so anschaue, schreibe ich doch sehr viel über Pinot Noir! Erschreckend und eigentlich ganz schön fade würde ich meinen! Was soll man machen, wenn man sich auf diese Rebsorte nun mal so stark „eingetrunken“ hat? Naja, wahrscheinlich ist es am besten gleich noch etwas nachzulegen! Immerhin gibt es heute Pinot Noir aus einer Ecke der Welt, die ich all zu gerne ein wenig vernachlässige: Deutschland! Ja ja, die Teutonic Tintos haben es schwer bei mir Erwähnung zu finden. Daher kam es gelegen, dass ich vor wenigen Tagen die Möglichkeit hatte einige nicht mehr ganz so junge Spätburgunder aus deutschen Landen verkosten zu können. Daneben haben sich auch zwei Infiltranten unter die teutonische Menge gemischt, die für etwas, na sagen wir mal – Abwechslung, gesorgt haben.

Das Quälen mit allzu langen Texten liegt mir fern. Zumindest versuche ich es. Daher werde ich heute, wie schon öfters – und natürlich ohne erfolgreich zu sein, versuchen nur das Notwendigste aus meinen Notizen zu destillieren. Mal schaun' ob das klappen mag:

Teutonic Tinto Part 3: Weingut Holger Koch Pinot Noir 2007, Baden

It has been a while since I had my last Teutonic Tinto. This time I will give one of my favorite Teutonic Pinot Noir producers a chance. I have chosen the mid-range Pinot Noir from 2007 which was made from French clones and cultivated in the Herrenstück vineyard in Kaiserstuhl subregion of Baden.

Teutonic Tinto Part 1: Weingut Enderle & Moll Pinot Noir 2010, Landwein Oberrhein (Baden)

Thanks to the Enlightenment by Google Analytics the viewing (and maybe even reading) figures from abroad are constantly increasing on my blog. However the domestic ones seem to stagnate a bit. As a result I came up with an idea! 

Ohh, before I forget! Thanks everybody for reading my blog! I know it can be pretty challenging to read these weird posts without any proper orthography, comprehensibility and definitely without a lot of useful input! Well, I guess you got accustomed to my deficient blather anyway! So thanks very much again!!!

So, where did I interrupt myself? Ahh, okay … That’s why I’ve decided to dare a little experiment, which might bore most of you guys in Germany. The experiment’s name is: Teutonic Tintos! In these reoccurring posts I’d like to introduce a couple of German Reds, mostly Pinot Noirs, to my international audience. That is probably the only categorization I am intending right now. I suppose you will find Pinots and a few others from entry-level to expensive high-end products, from well known big-shots to relatively unknown dark horses and so on! So let’s start this series with an entry level Pinot Noir from an “almost” not so well known producer. Well, okay even Janice Robinson got this winery on her radar. So, well … whatever, probably not that unknown ;-)

It is the Enderle & Moll Pinot Noir Basis 2010 from Baden!