2015 FJ Regnery Klüsserather Bruderschaft Spätburgunder Auslese trocken

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  10/20/2022 - Fwmsmeets Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Nice, well balanced, fruity with some oaky notes Pinot from Mosel. Would love buy more from it at 18€ certainly competitive with many other PN

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  11/7/2020 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  Made by the Spätburgunder specialist of Mosel, harvested at Auslese ripeness level and fermented to dryness. Aged for 15 months in old oak barriques. Bottled unfiltered. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Dark, translucent and slightly hazy pomegranate red color with a subtly evolved figgy hue. Concentrated and quite classic, spicy Spätburgunder nose with rather intense aromas of peppery spice, smoke, some ripe cranberry, light stony mineral tones, a little bit of coniferous forest and a brambly hint of black raspberry. Quite robust, fresh and cool overall impression. However, the wine is noticeably juicier and more ripe on the palate with a rather concentrated overall feel, medium-to-moderately full body and intense flavors of sweet raspberries and wild strawberries, some blackcurrant marmalade, light piquant notes of peppery spice, a little bit of brambly blackberry, a hint of savory old wood spice and a touch of dried herbs. Quite good structure with the moderately high acidity and gently grippy medium tannins. The finish is juicy, long and spicy with ripe and somewhat sweet-toned aftertaste of juicy strawberries, ripe cranberries, some brambly raspberry tones, a little bit of peppery spice, light herbal notes and a hint of coniferous forest. The alcohol lends a subtle touch of warmth to the aftertaste and the tannins make the wine end on a gently grippy note.
  
  A poised, attractive and thoroughly classical Spätburgunder. However, on the palate the wine feels quite surprisingly softer and sweeter than the nose leads to expect - to a slight disappointment. This is nevertheless a very nice, balanced and well-made Pinot Noir, but I would've liked the wine to show more roughness and precision in the place of softness and approachable, sweet-toned fruit. At least the wine shows good sense of balance and intensity. Due to the obvious ripeness the wine has a somewhat Martinborough Pinot Noir feel to it. I really hope the wine will gain more finesse and focus with age, expecting the baby fat to drop away at some point - probably after another 4-6 years? This is good and enjoyable stuff, but it feels like I would enjoy the same wine from cooler vintage more.

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  10/3/2019 - Fwmsmeets Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I am a bit ambivalent when it comes to German Pinot Noir, often nice but also often somewhat bleach and lack of fruit.
  This one is certainly not overly fruity, but had a very nice tingly mineralic dmall red fruit backbone with subtle leather and wood notes.
  From a Mosel producer who already longer time works with Pinot Noir. Recommended.

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