Pinot Noir, Centgrafenberg, Grosses Gewächs, 2023

Super elegant, not heavy or forced, this GG builds with silky, effusive spicy red fruits and fine mineral grip. Intense and persistent yet the whole feels a touch lighter and neater than the Bürgstadter Berg, which as a Premier Cru reveals its succulence of fruit earlier. Centgrafenberg has always served as the ‘home’ vineyard of the estate and the steep vineyard terraces here mean that the grapes rarely struggle to achieve good ripeness. Fermented with whole clusters and aged in French barrique.