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Weinbach Alsace La Colline du Château Pinot Noir 2022

$309.00
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Weinbach Alsace La Colline du Château Pinot Noir 2022
Producer Domaine Weinbach
Region, Country Alsace, France
Bottle Size 750ml
Product Code 25364-750

This wine is named after this Schlossberg lieu-dit’s cadastral name, Au Château. The building referenced in the name is the iconic Château de Kaysersberg, pictured at the top of this offer, whose ruins preside over the town and lie a stone’s throw from the western boundary of the Schlossberg Grand Cru.

With precious few bottles, we have yet to taste this release. However, Eddy Faller explains that the granitic soils give this bottling a more linear and ‘smoky’ mineral style compared to the rounder, more supple limestone-grown Altenbourg. Cropped from steeply terraced, pre-clonal era 1960s vines, it was fermented with 20% bunches and aged for two years in Burgundian barrels (20% new).

Weinbach Alsace La Colline du Château Pinot Noir 2022

Reviews

“The 2022 Pinot Noir La Colline du Château was harvested on the granite of Grand Cru Schlossberg. The ferment contained 60% of whole bunches and this spent 24 months in oak. There is just a touch of distant woodsmoke on the nose, gentle and smooth, almost with a touch of meatiness, but all very subtle. Superbly fine tannins define the slender, slightly juicy and beautifully dense palate, expressing dark fruit and making the mouth water. This is taut and expresses the granite beautifully, with fruit bubbling up between those lovely tannins. The 2022 has freshness and contour—it just needs a little bottle age.”
92 points, Anne Krebiehl MW, Vinous
“A very elegant pinot noir with complex aromas of summer flowers and sour cherries wrapped around a core of fine tannins. Beautiful balance on the medium-bodied palate and a very long finish with licorice and rooty flavors. So silky thanks to the fineness of the tannins. 50% whole cluster, then two years in barrels with 20% new oak. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Drink or hold.”
96 points, Stuart Pigott, jamessuckling.com

Reviews

“The 2022 Pinot Noir La Colline du Château was harvested on the granite of Grand Cru Schlossberg. The ferment contained 60% of whole bunches and this spent 24 months in oak. There is just a touch of distant woodsmoke on the nose, gentle and smooth, almost with a touch of meatiness, but all very subtle. Superbly fine tannins define the slender, slightly juicy and beautifully dense palate, expressing dark fruit and making the mouth water. This is taut and expresses the granite beautifully, with fruit bubbling up between those lovely tannins. The 2022 has freshness and contour—it just needs a little bottle age.”
92 points, Anne Krebiehl MW, Vinous
“A very elegant pinot noir with complex aromas of summer flowers and sour cherries wrapped around a core of fine tannins. Beautiful balance on the medium-bodied palate and a very long finish with licorice and rooty flavors. So silky thanks to the fineness of the tannins. 50% whole cluster, then two years in barrels with 20% new oak. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Drink or hold.”
96 points, Stuart Pigott, jamessuckling.com

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