Jaspis Zipsin Pinot Noir

Love this wine. Exuberant nose of mineral and a bowl of only the best late season darker cherries. Some earth and spice but this needs air to get to the level. Palate is so juicy and clean with top flight finesse and wonderfully silky and delicate tannins. So pure and sappy. Floats on the palate and has all the finesse. Superb concentration and tiny berry fruit explosiveness but just dripping with limestone minerality. Gorgeous wine but let’s see where air takes it. With air this has gotten tangy and super complex. Amazing lightness of touch and freshness. Now a 9.6.

This is an awesome vintage for this wine. Magical nose. Just stunning. Deep red cherry fruit. A lipstick like and kirsch intensity. You can tell it was warm. But also it’s cool climate warmth though. Spice, some sweet wood, all integrated and harmonious. Just a beautiful young Jaspis. Rich, fleshy and concentrated but impeccably balanced and so delicate and fresh. This has rich wine character but also all the trappings of what makes Ziereisen Pinot so good. It’s elegant, the fruit is so pretty and intense, there’s lithe and serious structure with the finest and sweetest tannins one can imagine. This is when Godard started making color films. Same Godard but in color! This is same old Ziereisen but in 2018! As it airs a stunning floral aroma develops. The nose is magic.