2015 Knipser Kirschgarten Spätburgunder Großes Gewächs

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  7/12/2022 - honest bob wrote: 93 Points

  From 75cl, perfect cork, decanted 1 hour WHICH WAS NOT ENOUGH. Strong cherry scent and ripe (slightly cloying) fruit on opening, the last drop was the best. This morphed so radically over the two hours we followed this bottle it's almost impossible to give an accurate summary TN. There's a tight core of cherry/raspberry jam fruit, which is indeed as unattractive and heavy as that sounds for the first 60-120 after opening. I searched for balancing acid, let alone "resonance" or "architecture" until... BAM! at 110 minutes after opening this finally started opening its peacock's tail of gorgeous beef consommée/myriad red fruits/soy sauce aromatics (reminiscent of my fondest memories of Cono Sur's Ocio) and a big morello cherry/cranberry/SWEET black cherry combo on the mid-palate. Zowie, this is great PN, perhaps a dreamy Charmes Chambertin caught in the bud, with a bit of NSG Bad Boy black fruit, licquorice and tar? 93(+)P
  
  My third Knipser SB GG, and looking back at my previous TNs, I see I have made the same two mistakes for the third time: 1) they would all have profited from 10+ years after the vintage to open up, but alas I lost patience at +7 years. 2) They all needed at least 2 hours in the decanter to even start showing their true potential. Knipser's GGs are fabulous, world-class Grand Cru PNs, among the headiest and most pleasurable I have ever tasted. They're also extraordinary bargains at ca. 40–45 EUR German retail, so: shhhhh!!

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  1/2/2022 - tmagsmaken wrote: 90 Points

  Kirschgarten means cherry garden and there is certainly plenty of that in the nose. Nice touches of cinnamon and some more earthy and herbal notes. The acidity structures the wine without being omnipresent. Very creamy and therfore rather medium than light-bodied. Gives the impression to be ready. Certainly enjoyable and while not cheap, better than many pinot alternatives at this price point.

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  12/25/2021 - R J Lewis wrote:

  Never disappoints. Lovely bright cherry fruit with earth/leaf/smoke, but this is increasing in how harmonious it comes across on the palate. Very difficult to tire drinking this wine. Need to put my last 2 bottles under lock and key to see what it does in future, but this will be hard.

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  12/31/2020 - R J Lewis wrote:

  As per previous note. Lovely balance of fresh fruit, acidity and richness from the dep fruit and oak spices.

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  10/23/2020 - R J Lewis wrote:

  PNP.
  Intense and rich. Plenty of oak here but integrated and matched with deep cherry, plum, coffee, milk chocolate, cinnamon and leaf.
  Bracing acidity, but full palate. Core of plush ripeness and even milk chocolate notes. But complex with cinnamon, cardamom, incense, wet leaf. Long long finish. Superb.

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