2012 Friedrich Becker Sankt Paul Spätburgunder Großes Gewächs

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  12/29/2023 - afot Likes this wine:

  Best wine of a pretty large Pfalz pinot flight. Super balanced and complex. Velvety notes of red fruits, tannic grip and sour note. Integrated oak. Will improve over the next dexade.

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  9/7/2023 - onboisduvin Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Lovely aroma and watering acidity. Right drinking window.

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  10/7/2022 - Song103 wrote: 89 Points

  Slow ox for 4 hours and followed for another 3. This is like an AMG sedan. A robust extracted powerhouse with firm tannin, dark fruit and strong spices, but lacking in floral characteristics. A bottle of precise German engineering, that is lacking in finesse. PnP may have been a better option. :) 89

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  4/20/2022 - apple1813 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  2012 Friedrich Becker Sankt Paul Spätburgunder was expressive, evolving and mineral-driven. The developing Pfalz Pinot Noir was clear and medium ruby in colour with traces of sediments. Freshly uncorked, it revealed expressive aromas of ripe dark cherry, bramble, rose and juniper. Underneath were menthol, sweet vanilla, pepper and liquorice spices. Over three hours of in-bottle aeration, the obvious oak artefact dissipated, and complexities of tilted soil and smoked game emerged.
  
  The mouthfeel was dry and medium-bodied, with a medium level of finely grained tannin and a medium-high level of balancing acidity. There were unparalleled concentration and a sense of salinity on the mid-palate. Refined flavours of hawthorn and raspberry transitioned to tobacco and earth in a long gently spiced finish. That was a genuine, classy Pinot Noir that could rival the great growths of Burgundy. The alcohol level was at 13.5%. The empty bottle weighed 850 grams. The wine was certified as Grosse Lage by VDP.
  
  There is a funny sticker on the wine label, because it is a wine crafted by a German winemaker, from fruits grown on French (Alsatian) soil. The authority bans any mentions of specific vineyard sites in French territory, claiming that it would confuse the customers. Alas, bureaucrats are never praised for their pragmatism and adaptability.
  
  The plot Sankt Paul is named after a monastery's former outpost. The vines are cultivated on a south-facing limestone rock, with a thin layer of clay topsoil. The grapes are completely destemmed, and fermented in open-top oak vats for two to three weeks. The wine is raised in small oak barrels for eighteen months, bottled unfiltered and unfined. 3951 bottles are filled in the 2012 vintage.

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  8/29/2020 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points

  A private lunch (Restaurant Schloss Berg ***, Perl/Nennig, Germany): Rich style, wonderful marriage of ripe fruit and spicy oak, fresh and mature, forest floor, deep and precise, great minerally energy, firm and ripe tannic structure, excellent length. Early maturity, ten to fifteen years ahead.

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