Pinot Noir - Thomas Studach - 2021

150 cl

Robert Parker: 92 points

Alcohol content: 12.9% vol.

Grape varieties: 100% Pinot Noir

Vinification:

Around half of the grapes are fermented whole, the rest are destemmed. Matured for up to 12 months in new barriques.

Tasting note:

The 2021 Malanser Pinot Noir from Studach offers a deep, pure and fresh, spicy-slatey bouquet of red fruits and crystalline rocks. Silky, fresh and elegant on the palate, with ripe and juicy fruit, structured by fine tannins and lively, crystalline acidity, this is a medium to full-bodied, straightforward and refreshing mineral Pinot from Malans, with a seductive but still youthful finish.

Thomas Studach:

Thomas Studach has been producing his extremely rare wines since 1988. He produces a maximum of 12,000 bottles on just 3 hectares. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Completer. Yields are kept very low by pruning, and only the best grapes are used. Studach is a great advocate of working in the vineyard, clean work pays off. His wines are often labelled 'world class'. He produces wines of immense depth, complexity and longevity.

The great potential of the wines is immediately apparent at the first tasting. Either you drink the wines young in the fruit phase, or you let the wines mature for 5 to 8 years or more and your patience will be rewarded with great wine art, which need fear no comparison with the great Burgundies. Patience is rewarded with the great cinema of Swiss winemaking.