Buntsandstein Pinot Noir

Wish I has more time with this. After an hour it was at 10%. But I can’t imagine it at 100%.

Savory, delicate, herbal bit with umami qualities and bright red cherry fruit too.

Beautiful! Cherry, strawberry, so elegant, loved it

Nice but somewhat lacking fruit stuffing compared w the Valli.

Just sick. Floral, citrus, cherrie. So vivid. Juicy and so clean. Long and pure. So elegant. Insane length. Just brilliant!

If you have not tried German Pinot yet, aka Spatburgunder, this is a very, very good entry point, though not the easiest to find. Their Liaison might be an easier find and a worthwhile search as well.

Tasted over a few days: Fruit for days, earthy tones, some spice and lots of florals. The nose is med+, while the body is med, acidity is med/med+, abv is at the edge of med/med+ at 13.5, tannin are med and very finely grained, supple.
Day 1 was more fruit, day 2 the complexity deepened, day 3 was a few days later (first 2 were via Coravin) it was about the same as day 2.

Probably the best Spat for me to date, a few more of these from time to time would be nice.

Wow. What a nose. Spice, moss, red fruits, gorgeous purity, cranberry bog, floral and ethereal. So soft and juicy. Sensuous. Gorgeous tannins. So velvety. Awesome.

Words will fail me. Nose changed 100 times and the texture so delicate yet so opulent yet so intense. Just a mesmerizing bottle of wine and the finest German Pinot I’ve had in my life.

Goddamn I love this wine. Huge aromatics, spent the first 5-10 minutes just breathing it in without even sipping. Mouth puckering acid, spicy cinnamon, black cherries, black and red currants, licorice, pepper. The spirit of the primeval forest wrapped in an elegant package. Clearly Germany was a temperate refuge in a hot year I tend to avoid elsewhere.

My oh my oh my. Let me first try to describe this as objectively as I can before I start babbling in tongues about why it's awesome. So, okay, we'll start with the color, which is somewhere between a rosé and a pale red. That's as good a portent as any for what you get when you taste it, which is this ethereal, gossamer, lacy thing that would probably flutter to the earth even slower than a feather if it were a solid object. It has a sense of freshness and light without being overtly fruity, i.e. it features the freshness and essential perfume of the fruit without the sweetness or fat. It has a minerally element too, subtle (though everything about this is subtle) but clearly reminiscent of gravelly rock pulverized to an ultrafine powder (everything about this is ultrafine). The word "finesse" is a cliché, ditto for "ethereal," but ultimately that's what's so awesome about this. I have had a lot of disappointing German pinot noir, even from highly regarded producers, and they never turn out to be what you think German pinot noir ought to be (i.e., as clear and pure and transparent as riesling, with all that cool-climate lightness). Somehow some of them turn out to be big fat Sonoma pinot lookalikes, which I will never understand. This is not like that. I am really at a loss to think of anything from anywhere to compare this to that so effortlessly pulls off such a vivid personality out of material so fine it only barely seems to have a corporeal existence, and not a flaw or seam to be seen in the way it is all put together. I can think of a Jura pinot that was in the ballpark (the '08 Chais des Vieux Bourg) and the weight and physical presence bring to mind something like Coteaux Champenois or the Dirty & Rowdy reds, but as far as I am concerned this is sui generis. There are aspects that bring to mind all sorts of things but it really needs its own frame of reference. It is profound but not in the same way that grand cru Burgundy is profound; it's a brilliant soloist, not a symphony, almost minimalist in its simplicity and tranquility, best paired with your favorite easy chair and some quiet moments.