Community Tasting Note

fhayek Does not like this wine:

Monday, October 30, 2017 - Had the 2012 Alte Reben Spätburgunder (cost 28 EUR) from Huber a while ago and that was quite some beauty.

The wine tasted now is 2013 – a vintage at least as good as 2012 – but one level lower, called simply Malterdinger Spätburgunder, price point still 18 EUR.

And I have to say that this was a much, much simpler quality. Basic pinot noir with some pinot typicity, OK-ish acids, but nothing to balance them; only two-dimensional (if not one), lacking depth. Also I got a bit of milk chocolate aroma which was not really integrated into the wider picture.

Opened up and became better with time, but even so my group was not impressed and I had to agree. Even in the German base pinot noir world, there are (much) better efforts than this, e.g. Friedrich Becker’s 2013 springs to mind which costs half of this and wipes the floor with it.

Cannot recommend.

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