Community Tasting Notes 5

• PSPatrick wrote: 92 points

  February 2, 2024 - Decanted for 2.5 hours in the morning, poured over dinner. Medium garnet colour. Mixed berries, cherry, cherry pit, raspberry, forest notes, and intense Pinot spice, with good acidity and great persistence. The oak is integrated better now compared to three years ago. Medium-bodied, medium complex, with good concentration, good structure, and outstanding length. Even better balance and integration on day two. Developing well. Should be even smoother in a year or two and continue to drink well for at least ten years. A great Pinot!

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• angelcyn Likes this wine:

  January 2, 2022 - Lovely dark colour no fading, strong nose more blackberry than strawberry, but a strawberry mouth, , nice balanced acidity, undoubtedly one of the best PNs to come out of Germany and this has years ahead of it.

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• NickA Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 7, 2021 - Recommended by the somm to accompany a salad with crispy duck and an Asian dressing, this Pinot Noir had plenty of stuffing and an unmissable waft of new oak, but with compensating smoky stoniness to keep it crisp and refreshing as well as a subtle but compelling grippiness. Very good, and likely to improve as the oak integrates further.

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• carstenf wrote: 90 points

  June 16, 2021 - Really welldone Pinot from Baden. Holger Koch is clearly one bottle to buy again. The 3-star was ready to drink now and surpriced the others this night. Came after a La Tache from 07 , and that are not easy...

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• PSPatrick wrote: 91 points

  March 20, 2021 - Decanted for two hours. Medium ruby colour. Forest berries, red cherry, cherry pit, some raspberry, forest notes, and light Pinot spice, with good, lively acidity, grippy yet very well integrated tannin (partly fermented with stems?), and superb length. Medium-bodied. Good tension and energy! A little woody, with bitter cocoa and light bitter oak at this point, but the quality is obvious.
  
  The wine drank consistently well over a period of three days; on day one the tannin and oak were quite present, by day two the tannin was a little more resolved but the bitter oak still present, and on day three the tannin and oak were barely noticeable and the wine was driven by crunchy red cherry fruit and marked acidity. I would hold for at least another six or seven years and start drinking from 2025+. 91+ for now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Holger Koch
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation ***
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Germany
• Region Baden
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• Appellation n/a
• UPC Code 4260238742172

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• In Cellars 55 (59%)
• Consumed 38 (41%)

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