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. LF.
"First up, I have, as there is no other way to put it, something ridiculously special. One of the rarest of the rare. Walter he only sells it to Michelin starred restaurants and never to retail or to people who visit the winery. He made 300 bottles of the Christoph Walter 2011 Pinot 274 . . . . But, wait, what is this wine? It is my Franken dream. It is 40% Spatburgunder and 60% Fruhburgunder. Mind. Blown. Also the Pinot 274 clone is the best clone Walter works with. I knew this wine had to exist but only Christoph had the cojones to make it. Make no mistake this wine is drinking superbly at the moment. Fruhburgunder is a Pinot Noir variant that ripens 3 weeks earlier than regular Pinot Noir and is something I swoon for if I can find it. Insane aged Burgundian nose. Sous-bois up the wazoo. Leafy, earthy, mushrooms, truffles, dusty, wet poodle. One of those noses you smell and two things happen. 1), You cannot stop smelling because of the purity and vividness of the aromas and 2), You can't stop smelling because there is no way this is from Germany. It smells most like the 1978 Billard-Gonnet Pommard Rugiens Phillippe Billard opened for me a few years back. It is all there. I swear it smells like great aged Grand Cru Red Burgundy. Stunning stunning nose. Extraordinary purity and depth. Amazing tannins. Huge, dense, ripe and sweet fruit and killer inner mouth aromas. Stunning secondary flavors of truffle, leather and sweet fruited earth. Big tannins. Amazing. Sweet, sweet fruit. Thunderous. This is as hedonistic as one can get while also being massively structured, dense and fresh. You will not believe this wine. I could not believe this wine and it was trapped in my mind all trio. Longest finish of any wine I had in August of my last trip. I had a lot of wine." Lyle Fass, Rockssandfruit.Blogspot.com, May 2018 |