Winemaker Notes
Also just bottled, this smells amazing, tres Corton; the palate is more tannic and gravelly; it also leans in a “pine-needle” direction and yields to a smoky, stony detailed finish. The site is limestone layered with alluvial stones from the old Rhine, and this is the first wine to see any new wood.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
From the Schulen parcel in the Efringen –lberg, the 2021 Pinot Noir S opens with a pure, bright, intense and fresh, iodine-inflected and fruity bouquet of sour cherries and floral aromas. Fresh and lean on the palate, this is a tight, fresh and limestone-driven, palate-cleansing and refreshing Pinot with refreshing salinity and phenolic grip. It's a very promising wine that needs to be aged for another 3 or 4 years.
Rating: 92+
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.”
