2020 Enderle & Moll Pinot Noir Muschelkalk

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 94 points

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  10/23/2023 - WineScars Likes this wine: 97 Points

  the nose is delicate tea overtures, like a breeze through a pine forest, cinnamon, cocoa powder. the palate is as if red cherry was made into resin, eucalyptus, cocoa powder, mushroom umami, and moss. deep and sappy. powerful but medium bodied with medium acid. perfectly balanced. really incredible wine. reminds me of a lythe Mazis-Chambertin.
  
  the first bottle of this I drank had substantial volatile acidity but this bottle is completely clean.

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  9/12/2022 - levicn wrote: 90 Points

  醒酒半小时，很淡的宝石红色，闻香有植物，苔藓和湿石头的气息，蔓越莓，樱桃的红果香气，玫瑰花香，些许烟熏和肉桂的味道，还有些白石灰的气息，入口酸度高，单宁紧涩，颗粒很细腻，酒液甜美，水果糖一样香甜，酒体轻盈，香气飘逸，红樱桃伴随着果梗的香气，玫瑰和月季的花香，后段香料辛辣，带着植物微苦，淡淡的烟熏味贯穿始终，余味是细腻红果味和花香，随着醒酒时间的增加还能感受到一些桂皮的收尾，单宁的涩感也会变得更明显。甜美而不甜腻，保持了很好的酸度和结构，年份比较新，没有太多变化，总体来说比较简单直接，清新可人的风格，非常宜饮。

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  7/6/2022 - sid_loves_wine Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine is just killer, being incredibly elegant, complex, and crazy well-priced around $65. The only other vintage I've tried is the 2018, which I had about a year ago. Although I slightly preferred the 2018 (if I had to choose) I'll rate this 2020 the same on my scale- it wasn't really a worse wine, just a tad different. I'd call the '18 a little "deeper", more complete and more intense, more classically burgundian if you care about that, but also more austere and challenging than the '20, which feels more vivid and immediate, with clearer fruit and maybe a more "elegant" profile overall without sacrificing complexity.
  
  Gentle but very deep and persistent nose with all kinds of harmonious, wonderful Pinot beauty. High-toned notes of slightly musky damp forest floor and bright salty charcuterie are quickly followed by an unending aroma of super pure red cherries, sappy, ripe, but leaving plenty of room for that forest vibe. There's a very, very gentle sense of woodsmoke or some other kind of nutty, meaty umami sitting in the background. The fruit is at center stage, but it's so cool and pure, minerally and perfect. Maybe the nose lacks some of the awesome cedary intensity of the 2018, but this vintage is less "stemmy" outright, making the nose just a little friendlier. What a nose on this, showing totally present, pure fruit and an array of earth, minerals, umami.
  
  As with the 2018, the palate is lacking some of that intense nose detail, but it's so damn good. Acidity is fairly high with bright red cherry and other assorted red berries (cranberry, strawberry), at times a little tart, but mostly super well-integrated. Tannins are perfect, being powdery and ultrafine while still giving enough body for aging (although it won't be as long-lived as the 2018 which was more dense and coarse.) All that foresty, minerally goodness returns on the cool finish. I wasn't really able to detect any oak notes on the nose or palate- it's all about the fruit and terroir.
  
  Might be underrating this a bit, but I maintain that the Liaison cuvee is even better QPR, at least when I found it for $35. Now that it's nearing $50, not as sure. What a great wine.

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