Weingut Achim Durr
Pinot Noir vom Keuper
Gorgeous, deeply expressive Pinot Noir. The nose is dark and perfumed, with black cherry, mid-season cherry, crystallized fruit, a little herbaceousness and just enough feral funk to add complexity. The palate is silky but almost solid in its concentration, with beautiful sweet fruit, terrific freshness, ample mid-palate richness and superb balance. Fine, silky tannins, tiny-berry intensity and a finish that cuts sharply through the richness. Elegant, juicy, complex and clearly still opening.
Gorgeous, deeply expressive Pinot Noir. The nose is dark and perfumed, with black cherry, mid-season cherry, crystallized fruit, a little herbaceousness and just enough feral funk to add complexity. The palate is silky but almost solid in its concentration, with beautiful sweet fruit, terrific freshness, ample mid-palate richness and superb balance. Fine, silky tannins, tiny-berry intensity and a finish that cuts sharply through the richness. Elegant, juicy, complex and clearly still opening.
Nov 4th, 2026This 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.
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.
May 16th, 2025
Nose: hand crushed wild blackberries. So fresh and intense. Sexy licorice. As this opens it just smells like money. So dense. So intense. Vosne romanee like. Daaaaaamn. Psychotic.
Palate: so direct. Perfect wild blackberry licorice. Intense juice. Deeeeelish. Elegant spice.
A fucking crazy wine. Up with the greats of burgundy but it’s own style. Singular. Magical. I’m in love.
A psychedelic dream of Pinot noir. Timothy Leary.
What if Lalou bize Leroy went in an acid trip ?
So fresh. So distinctive. So out there. The cure for ennui.
Fass selections.
Nose: hand crushed wild blackberries. So fresh and intense. Sexy licorice. As this opens it just smells like money. So dense. So intense. Vosne romanee like. Daaaaaamn. Psychotic.
Palate: so direct. Perfect wild blackberry licorice. Intense juice. Deeeeelish. Elegant spice.
A fucking crazy wine. Up with the greats of burgundy but it’s own style. Singular. Magical. I’m in love.
A psychedelic dream of Pinot noir. Timothy Leary.
What if Lalou bize Leroy went in an acid trip ?
So fresh. So distinctive. So out there. The cure for ennui.
Fass selections.