Pinot Noir, Hundsruck, Grosses Gewächs, 2022
The Hundsrück exhibits a beautiful fragrancy with an extra violet and lavender dimension atop crackling, fresh blue fruits and a spicy, stony kick. The 2022 has a firm, quite elemental feel that carries through on the long finish. The feather in the cap of the Fürst estate, the Hundsrück has been recognised as an individual terroir since at least the 16th century. An intensely rocky, cool site, the wines often require more time to reveal themselves, rewarding those with patience. Fermented with 100% whole cluster and aged in French barrique.
critic reviews
The 2022 Spatburgunder Hundsruck GG is coolish and intense on the spicy, fresh and peppery, beautifully concentrated nose that comes as a perfume and merges the characters of the Centgrafenberg and the Schlossberg. Earthy, herbal and coolish on the nose, with rose petal and black tea aromas, this is a silky, fresh, refined and energetic, pure, tight and textured as well as finessed Pinot with crunchy and spicy tannins and vital but fine and palate-tickling acidity and salinity. The wine is long, intense and complex, full of thrill and tension and hedonistic cherry fruit. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in April 2024.