2019 Rheinhessen Pinot Noir 

Blend: 100% Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)

Tasting Notes: Explosive sour-cherry, floral and bitter-chocolate nose. Concentrated and fleshy, but with fine tannins and lively acidity that give this so much energy at the long finish.

Vinification & Ageing Process: The fully mature grapes are hand-picked at the ideal moment of ripeness during the harvest season. After they are sorted, destemmed and crushed in wine cellar. The must is fermented spontaneously on the skins for 3-4 weeks. The cap is punched down manually three times each day (pigeage). After fermentation, the wine is pressed with low pressure, settled and transferred to French 225l oak barrels. Following the completion of malolactic fermentation, the wine stays in the barrels for 20 months. The wines are bottled unfiltered, without racking or fining.

Alcohol: 13%

Formats: 750ml, 6 bottles per case

Private Client $32.01/btl Investment of $192.06 per case

Licensee: $28.55/btl Investment of $171.30 per case

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The Thörle wine estate, whose history goes back to the 16th century, took a major turn in 1985. Following his father Jakob's footsteps, Rudolf Thörle shifted the focus to traditional grape varieties, including Riesling and other Burgundian varieties. Since then, the family has invested in blocks of vines in the Grand Cru and Premier Cru of the Saulheim region. Now under the leadership of Christophe and Johannes Thorle, the quality of their wines is achieved through attention to detail in every aspect of production: horse manure and grape marc instead of artificial fertilizers, permanent greening of the plots, reduced yields, and selective hand harvesting.