2011 Moric Blaufränkisch Alte Reben Lutzmannsburg

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  9/16/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 93 Points

  Some lighter red berry fruit and cherry confiture, but also more dark berries of brambleberry. Layer of light, powdery sweet spice, fine earthy base of sous-bois. Later also vegetal and herbal notes and adding black coffee after 1h or so. Fresh acidity with some weight to the body. Another Blaufränkisch aging impressively.

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  5/14/2023 - boillatm Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A nice dinner with friends: We didn't do justice to this bottle as we served it after two exceptional wine and didn't open it long enough before serving.
  It was very closed at first but evolved nicely in the glass. Great value at 70 CHF a bottle.
  
  I have one more bottle and will wait 5+ years before touching it. I will also try to serve it as first wine

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  7/9/2022 - Lehto Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I'm keeping this at 93 for now, but man am I glad I have another bottle of this because I think this could turn in to a 94-95 monster...
  
  Both the nose and palate was a lot darker than I had remembered. So much dark cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant, plum and chokeberry! Only a touch of raspberry and violets sneaking through but then comes the smoke, leather, spices, cedar and hung meat. Tannins are still taking a stronghold on your cheeks, tongue and gums, and the acidity is superior and amazing - insane for an 11-year-old Blaufränkisch...

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  4/20/2022 - originalverkorkt Likes this wine: 95 Points

  The Lutzmannsburg Alte Reben is a Blaufränkisch selection from the oldest and best vineyards. The Lutzmannsburg plateau was formed from a primeval volcano, on which different layers were deposited over time. Today one can find sediments of the Pannonian sea in the form of calcareous sandstone, loam, sand and clay as well as deposits of volcanic nature. The age of the vines is between 85 and 110 years. Part was fermented as whole grapes with rape. After spontaneous introduction, fermentation lasted about three and a half weeks in open wooden vats. After a very careful pressing directly into 500- and 600-liter barrels, the wine lay on full lees for almost a year, where spontaneous malolactic fermentation took place. The first drawing off took place after about a year, after which the Blaufränkisch aged for another twelve months in 500-liter barrels. There were no finings, no filtration and only small additions of sulfites.
  
  Deep garnet red with a violet core.
  
  The aroma of this wine is already beguiling, hovering somewhere between aged Morgon, Cornas and Gevrey. It smells of very fresh black fruits like elderberries, plums, black cherries, blackberries and mulberries as well as a bit of blood orange. It is joined by notes of well-hung meat, some pepper, nuts, leather, mint and licorice with hints of lambic, rose petals and cedar. This comes across as very dense, tightly woven and complex, yet expressive and absolutely fresh.
  
  A fascinating interplay of intensity, power, finesse and freshness opens on the palate, where the crisp black fruit of black cherries, blackberries, blueberries and some cassis and elderberry is washed over by a wave of herbs and rocks. The 2011 Lutzmannsburg comes across as balanced, supple and at the same time still firmly wrought in tannin and pleasantly angular, full of energy and vibrancy. The wine and its fruit possess fantastic ripeness on the one hand, but on the other, an acidity vein that will carry it a long way. Almost as if, after eleven years of ripeness, this is just the beginning.

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  3/18/2022 - Papies wrote: 93 Points

  A wine dinner at Stuva in Ischgl (Stuva, Ischgl): The wines one comes across in lovely wine dinners.
  The table next to us at the excellent and Michelin Star worthy Stuva, Ischgl countered our offer of Appius 2014 with this. Local knowledge in a way.
  Very cool vintage feel to it and frankly we could not place it as we have very limited exposure to Blaufränkisch. We felt it was a bit of a Syrah young and from a cool climate area. Well mannered and elegant wine , young , very much on the fruit but in no way overdone or manhandled. Elegant for sure and impressive 92-93

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