Winemaker Notes
This is an incredibly drinkable, lovely Pinot with sweet fruit and exceptional minerality. Year after year, Becker's basic Pinot is a a light to medium bodied wine with rich, delicious flavor.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2015 Friedrich Becker Family Pinot Noir brings attention to the Pfalz region of Germany. TASTING NOTES: This wine is expressive with aromas and flavors of rustic spices, dried herbs, forest floor, and earth. Pair it with grilled lamb chops. (Tasted: October 18, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
A dark version, with fresh acidity in the background giving this vivaciousness and focus. Pure notes of dark cherry, spice and rose hip make this inviting, along with a lingering minerally accent on the finish.
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.