Winemaker Notes
Deep ruby red. On the nose aroma of wild berries, tobacco, black tea and roasted hazelnut. On the palate dense powerful and juicy with very good length and
excellent structure. Great aging potential.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A ripe pinot noir with plenty of hot stones, dried spices, cedar, cassis and brambleberries. Super balance of structured tannins and edgy but endearing acidity. Muscular and burly at its fruit-driven core. A long, powerful red.
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Wine Enthusiast
It only takes a whiff to appreciate the intense ripeness and power of black cherries and plums in this deeply concentrated, complex red. Sourced from 50-year-old vines planted on lime-marl soils on the Alsatian border, it's a rich but vibrantly balanced, profoundly earthen Pinot Noir framed in fine, gripping tannins. Tasted in January 2021, it's still an electric, youthful wine that will only improve through 2035.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Kammerberg Spätburgunder GG is ripe and intense on the nose, with deep and complex but super ripe and concentrated fruit. It is ripe and sweet, with spicy tannins that I find slightly drying right now. This 2015 is a full-bodied, intense, juicy and silky textured Kammerberg with a lot of power and ripeness. Impressive finish. From almost 50-year-old vines.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
This sunny and relatively dry region served for many years as a German tourist mecca and was associated with low cost, cheerful wines. But since the 1980s, it has gained a reputation as one of Germany’s more innovative regions, which has led to increased international demand.