Weingut Rings - Spätburgunder 2021 (750ml)
Price: $52.99
| Producer | Weingut Rings |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Pfalz |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 70264 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Weingut Rings Description
When we started to make wine in the year 2000, our parent’s daily life was about fruit and grape production. However, our approach was the very reverse. Steffen began to turn the farm in a 100%-winery. He planted Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in the sandy, warm soils of Freinsheim and gained first recognition for his wines. Step by step, he managed to purchase or lease premium parcels in the classified sites of the northern Mittelhaardt, known for limestone and Terra Rossa soils. Low yields, 100% hand harvest and an organic approach were and still are key principles. When younger brother Andi came in, after his training at Wagner-Stempel in Rheinhessen, they jointly put a strong emphasis on Riesling. Spontaneously fermented, long time on lees and partly aged in traditional, big wooden barrels, the Rieslings put the winery on the map in Germany. In 2015, we became a full member of the VDP, the prestigious Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter. Our biggest love is Pinot Noir, or as we say in Germany: Spätburgunder. We adore the great wines of Burgundy, while not copying them. We grow our Spätburgunder grapes in the cool micro-climate close to the Palatinate Forest on limestone soil. Spontaneously fermented, aged in French oak and unfiltered, we follow our own style: Spätburgunder with elegance, finesse and minerality that are a fingerprint of their Pfalz origin.
Wine Advocate: 89 Points
The 2021 Spätburgunder is finely reductive but highly aromatic in its dark berry (cassis) and cherry aromas that intermingle with orange, toast and herbal/vegetal notes. Basket-pressed, macerated for about 14 days and aged in predominantly new barrels for 16 months, this is a medium-bodied, very elegant and fruity Pinot with silky-textured, very fine tannins. The wine is firm and tight but also sweet and juicy and very well made, given the complicated and rainy vintage that caused extensive selections, in particular for Pinot.
Vinous: 88 Points
The 2021 Spätburgunder is the estate Pinot Noir, harvested from younger vines across sites in Kallstadt, Ungstein and Leistadt and some older vines, especially those with German genetics. Elderberry aromatics with slight smokiness are the opening accents. The palate is fresh but with rounded, translucent, slightly lifted fruit, bright with freshness and fine, gentle tannins. The impression is of darker berry and forest fruit juiciness, without any fat and some toasty oak. The estate wines often see oak as the Rings brothers prefer second-use oak for their single-site wines.
