2013 Njord Pinot Noir Précoce

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  1/20/2021 - Bourgognefreak Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Holding up completely since my note from 2016 and I have re-tasted this more times with equally impressive results. Of course more mature now bit still with a nice grip and freshness. Sorry that I have one bottle left.

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  6/3/2017 - SineQuaNon Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Wow! For Denmark this is spectacular and hans down the best Danish wine I have ever tasted! Sporting pronounced and on-point Pinot Noir notes with a feel of real depth, I cannot believe this is Danish! The quality of the crunchy, zingy cherry-notes are unbelievable - given that this is the debut vintage and let me repeat: It is from Denmark! Additionally, this is NOT for the oak adverse! There are a lot of oak related notes, charred, tar, smoke. Some found the oak imbalanced. I didn't though! I really hope to get a chance to try the 2014 and 2016 when it is released, these are much better growing seasons than 2013 (that still was above average). Kudos to Sune for making this wine!!

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  8/30/2016 - Bourgognefreak Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This is the best Danish wine I have tasted. First time tasted blind and thought it was either Burgundy 2009 or a German burgunder.
  Since then I have tasted it more times and it stands up against rather good Burgundy 2013 wines.
  Without a lot of acidity it still provides delightful drinking and is really impressive.
  800 bottles made.

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  6/16/2016 - IB71 wrote: 89 Points

  (tasted semi-blind)
  The wine is pale ruby in colour. It has medium intensity developing aromas of fresh red fruit (redcurrant, rhubarb, strawberry) with additional notes of herbaceousness plus hints of florality (rose) and oak/cloves. The wine is dry with medium(+) acidity, medium(-) level of tannin, medium alcohol, medium body and medium intensity flavours reflecting the nose, albeit with oak-notes being more pronounced on the palate. Light, silky mouthfeel and medium(+) – slightly bitter - finish.
  It’s a good/very good quality wine combining typicity of the variety and a certain flavour concentration with pleasant acidic balance and an almost burgundian silky-light mouthfeel. On the downside, oak flavours are somewhat exaggerated (even slightly crude), and slight hints of unpleasant phenolics appear on the finish. (87-88/100)
  
  EDIT: re-tasting the wine 24 hours later has resulted in a higher rating. The finish is more harmonious and the oak now seems better integrated, although still a bit too obvious for the wine to really knock my socks off.

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