Erik Longabardi

9.5

Stop the brakes. This is just stunning. I’ve died and gone to Pinot heaven. This cuvée is bonkers good. 2022. — 7 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

This needs air big time as the nose starts off maybe 10% too herbal for me. But it also has nutmeg, voluminous spice, mid season cherry fruit and intense minerality. Really clear and vivid aromas. Wow what a palate. Exquisite balance and freshness and so much sweet and tart fruit. Unreal inner mouth aromas. Wow that sweetness is sick. Brilliant velvety and sweet tannins. This is brilliant! That herbal note is gone after 5 minutes and now this is a Mugneret-Gibourg clone but nervier. The density and concentration and the inner mouth florals (violets) are insane. This is brilliant. 9.6 now but can go higher. An hour in this is a 9.7 nose. Dizzying spice. Luscious cherry fruit. Amazing perfume. Just insane. Palate is so good. High honed but sweet like mid season perfectly ripe cherries. What a finish. Just a knockout. — 5 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Gorgeous nose. Perfumed. Floral. Silky and juicy. Lovely and juicy. So nimble and elegant. Very feminine. Crunchy and ripe tannins. Lovely purity. Really pretty. Silky.

@Delectable Wine this wine is called Achim Dürr Pinot Noir Von Buntsandstein. Thanks! — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Needs mega mega air. Be back. — a month ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Nose: sexy raspberry and blackberry fruit.

Palate: luscious blackberry spice. That blaufrankish thing. Very delicious.

Fass selections — 4 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Needs a 90 minute decant. An 8/10 on open.

Nose: some vegetal. Blackberry flower. Cherry. A. hint of miraculousness . Almost like great old bordeuax. Distinctive. Especially for a syrah. Peeking pink roses. Vegetal declines over time.

Palate: silky cherry fruit. Sooo silky.

9.4 for geek factor.

Fass selections — 8 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Really stunning nose. Gamey, meaty, Chambertin like. Very aromatic and very pretty. Gorgeous and insane vivid cherries. Really top notch clarity here. Just incredible. Gorgeous red fruits. 12.5%. Wonderful. Super juicy and pure. So fresh and just bursting with ripe acidity. Sweet fruit but edgy and so fresh. Long and tangy. Very very pure. Excellent ripe tannins. Amazing energy. Silky and a classic example of red riesling. So complete. — 3 years ago

Erik Longabardi

9.4

Wtf?! A complex SB that has texture and complexity? Read this: Genius — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

I tasted these 22’s this summer in barrel and now Achim sent me a couple samples and they are just insane. This vintage for Achim is one of the best I have tasted across the board from anybody in Germany. Stunning nose of red cherry fruit, glorious spice and citrus peel (tangelo, blood orange, mineola orange), minerals and gorgeous wet earth. The spice is just glorious and next level. Wowzers. It’s so fine and so pointed. Palate is just insane. This is an all time bottle of wine here. Unreal acids. Cleansing. So juicy and fresh with astonishing purity and depth. Nimble yet concentrated and never forced. Young and needs mega air but the bones of an elite wine are here. This is the purest Achim wine I have ever had. This will keep opening and I will be back. As this airs the fruit is even sweeter. Just tiny berry explosions. Now the nose has shifted into a higher gear. Unreal perfume. Feral as well. Heavenly. Wow the acid and sweet and sour fruit is stunning. Such sap on the finish. Epic. — 7 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Very Chambolle like. Red fruits and flowers. Savory and also gamey as well with stunning purity. Lithe and silky. Sweet and deep. Palate is elegant and nimble in a red riesling style. So juicy and sweet with great ripe tannins and lovey elegance and freshness. Gorgeous and so complete. — 3 years ago