2018 Dalsheim BÜRGEL Spätburgunder Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken Klaus Peter Keller, Rheinhessen (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2018 Dalsheim BÜRGEL Spätburgunder Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken, Klaus Peter Keller

Keller's 2018 Bürgel Spätburgunder GG is a fascinating Burgundian Pinot with a dark and spicy, very elegant and refined yet deep, concentrated and mineral bouquet with some underwood notes. Silky textured, highly finessed and again with some horse stable notes on the palate, this is a tightly structured, very intense and sustainable Pinot with great finesse and an incredibly long, compact and tensioned finish. There is an Islay Whisky (or iodine) note on the finish. Even though the wine is still shy and closed, this is a fantastic Pinot Noir from Germany and by far the best I have tasted from KPK so far (yet I have to admit I missed the 2017). Grand Cru level for sure. Tasted in Wiesbaden in August 2020 next to Huber and with Fürst's incredibly good Hundsrück in mind. - Stephan Reinhardt, März 2021