2022 Barmes-Buecher Hengst Pinot Noir
The Wine Advocate
RP 96
Reviewed by: Stephan Reinhardt
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2025 - 2060 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Maxime Barmes's 2022 Hengst Pinot Noir is a fabulous red wine from Alsace and the first classified as grand cru. Based on entirely destemmed berries, it macerated for 15 to 18 days, was pressed when still fermenting and then aged in used Burgundian pieces. The wine has a dark color and opens with a deep and complex nose of dark cherries and black and blue berries, with a shimmer of red fruits. It is concentrated and rich as well as fresh and zesty on the palate that shows fine but intense fruit with delicate, silky-textured tannins. This young, it tastes almost sweet due to the perfectly ripe and intense fruit, yet it is also fascinatingly fresh and even has lemon flavors that set a lovely counterpoint to the sea of dark-berry juice. The finish is elegant, long, stimulatingly saline and spicy. This grand cru firstling comes from a 35-are plot in a vigorous terroir that was planted by Maxime's and Sophie's grandfather in 1964 with massal selections from Burgundy and a density of 6,200 vines per hectare. The result today is a unique Pinot Noir with class and (Alsatian) style. Bottled in March, tasted at the domaine in April 2024.
Published: Feb 07, 2025