Sekthaus Raumland - Pinot Noir Grande Reserve brut 2012

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "Entirely based on grapes from the Bürgel (on limestone brown clay or terra fusca soils) and fermented in 55% stainless steel and 45% barriques, the 2012 Pinot Noir Grande Réserve Brut opens with a clear, elegant, fresh and vinous bouquet of sweet cherries, lemon peel and green apples intertwined with iodine and fine brioche aromas. This is a full-bodied, complex, very intense, fresh, long and vivacious sparkling wine with great intensity and stimulating purity. This wine offers a lot of layers and flavors for 12% stated alcohol. It's still extremely youthful and doesn't show any hints of 12 years of age, but the very long and complex finish is still a bit caged in the oaky milieu it was raised in for 10 months. The tirage was in July 2013, and it was disgorged in February 2024 after 127 months sur lattes. Natural cork."

FALSTAFF: "Ein vornehm zurückhaltender Duft: fein pinotbeerig, ziseliert zitrisch und leicht »steinig«, ungemein frisch. Der Gaumen setzt in derselben puristischen, klaren Weise fort: nuancenreich und frisch, feingliedrig mit hoher Dichte und geradliniger Säure, mit einer Schicht Geschmeidigkeit hinter Mousseux und Säure, lang."