Pinot Noir - Gantenbein - 2018

75 cl

Robert Parker: 95 points

Alcohol content: 13.5% vol.

Grape varieties: 100% Pinot Noir

Tasting note:

The Pinot Noir 2018 has a deep and homogeneous ruby red colour and offers a pure, fresh and intense, yet elegant and complex bouquet of perfectly ripe red fruits intermingled with toasted and salty or flinty notes. On the palate, it is silky, lush and sweet, but also very refined and elegant, a generous, warm, fleshy and concentrated, sweet and charming Pinot with great ageing potential. This is an exceptional Pinot from an exceptional vintage. It is dense and exciting, with fine and ripe but grippy tannins perfectly interwoven with crystalline salinity.

Gantenbein Winery:

On the edge of the wine village of Fläsch in the Grisons Rhine Valley stands a striking ensemble in the vineyards: the Gantenbein winery. Martha and Daniel Gantenbein have been making wine here since 1982. They knew that the vine was the decisive factor. So they planted Burgundy clones in their vineyards. They learnt: The grape must not lose anything on its way from the vine to the bottle. So they organised the business accordingly: Grapes and juice flow according to gravity, without pumping or filtering.

Five hectares - and thus the majority - belong to Pinot Noir. One hectare belongs to Chardonnay. And finally, Riesling is grown on twenty hectares.