2013 Donatsch Pinot Noir Unique

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  3/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 92 Points

  Tiefgründig, dunkelfruchtig, steinige Noten, das Holz noch immer wahrnehmbar, ein Hauch von Oxidation schwingt mit, laktische Töne, reife Frucht, aromatisch weit entwickelt. Im Gaumen druckvoll, sehr opulent, der Wein hat deutlich Fleisch am Knochen, die Struktur ist sehr gut, die Tannine sind fein mit der Frucht verwoben. Im Abgang sehr lang, würzig, reiffruchtig, mit Blutorangen im Rückaroma. Auf dem Punkt, bis 2027 geniessen.

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  5/19/2023 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  13x Pinot Greatness: Tasted side by side with the Donatsch Privee 2013. After a few dormant years, the regular Unique 2013 (94pts) is again open for business. It’s layered, precise, elegant but still a bit young. The Privee (96pts) showed fantastic with more of everything, so much aromatic density, superb precision and a perfect balance. In the context of this larger tasting, one couldn’t spend enough time with it to experience it in its totality and in ever detail. I suppose that once mature this could become a perfect wine.
  
  TN: The nose shows beautifully mature and layered with soil, herbs, dark red berries, some red berries, toasty notes and stems. On the palate very layered and clearly younger. Superb, round, satin-like tannins. Very light and airy but with good aromatic density. A wonderfully harmonious wine. The same aromas as on the nose with again this luxurious slightly burnt sugar notes as the highlight.
  
  Decanting: A few hours of slow-ox, not decanted. No decanting necessary.

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  4/30/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  During a Pinot blind tasting dinner. Complex nose with blue fruit, earthy and spicy, complex. The palate is still young and tannins still need to melt a bit.

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  4/23/2023 - Cailles wrote: 97 Points

  No notes taken. Wow! At the age of 10, this wine is really entering a first, fantastic peak drinking window. Compared to a few years ago, this is now open for business. Expressive, very, very layered with superb precision. All the oak has been integrated and this now shines with a perfect Burgundian elegance, a weightless feel, high aromatic intensity and tension. This 2013 is among the best Swiss Pinot Noir I’ve ever had and should develop further over the next 2 decades.
  
  Decanting: No decanting needed.

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  1/22/2023 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points

  No notes taken. Tasted double blind. It has been a while since I’ve tasted this last from a regular 0.75 bottle. A magnum last year showed completely locked and I didn’t open one of these because I feared the normal bottles to be in shutdown mode too but this bottle was opening and singing! A broad array of dark red and red berries, herbs, earthy tones, spices, minerality – everything was there, especially on the palate (the nose was a bit more muted). The structural frame is impeccable. This should without doubt continue to improve for another decade or two.

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