2007 Donatsch Pinot Noir Unique

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  4/3/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 91 Points

  Donatsch Unique Pinot Noir Complete Vertical (Dolder Grand, Zurich): Tasted at the Matter of Taste Zurich Complete Donatsch Unique Pinot Noir Vertical (2000-2019, all from Magnum) Masterclass. Martin Donatsch pointed out this was a difficult and cold year yielding a less concentrated wine.
  
  Tasting note:
  A more fleshy, meaty bouquet than other vintages. Pretty ripe raspberry fruit juxtaposed by cool minerarlity. Palate felt very young, still lacking balance but on the flipside with there’s plenty of life left.

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  4/3/2022 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  All 20 Vintages of Donatsch Pinot Noir Unique: Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to taste all vintages ever produced of this top Swiss Pinot Noir. All from magnum. A few obeservations: A) The structural frames are exceptional. Superb tannin quality, high, and perfectly-integrated acidity, lots of finesse and a weightless feel in all vintages. B) These wines are made to age. Only the 2002 was over-the-hill, most other showed young(-ish) from magnum and will have a long life ahead. Only the first vintage (2000) showed tertiary/peakish. C) The wines start drinking quite well from the age of 12-15 years. The younger ones from the 2010 vintage onwards were more about the potential with many even a bit closed. D) There's a jump in complexity with the 2004 vintage. Most (open) wines show beautifully complex, very well delinated, pure and Burgundian in style with a well-measured touch of sexiness.
  
  TN: Herbacious, vegetal aromas mixed with red berries and minerality. Not my favorite profile but quite intense and complex. With time that vegetal aromas were pushed to the back. On the palate much better with red fruit, ash, stems, toasty notes, minerality, but no vegetal aromas. But still a bit cooler expression with also some blue fruits mixed in. Nicely melted tannins, high freshness, nice creaminess. Quite round and balanced, quite complex and highly precise. Easily worth 94 pts.

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  3/3/2012 - tsim wrote: 93 Points

  wunderbar voll, finessenreich, toller koerper und viel schmelz

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