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
2022 Barmes-Buecher Hengst Riesling
The Wine Advocate
RP 96
Reviewed by: Stephan Reinhardt
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2030 - 2060
Botted in March 2024 after one year fermenting in a 3,600-liter oak foudre, the 2022 Hengst Riesling is pure yet intense and very mineral on the nose that reveals stony and spicy/herbal aromas at this early stage. Round, refined and elegant on the palate, this is a very intense and complex, firmly structured and persistently salty Riesling with six grams per liter of unfermented sugar that will integrate even better with years in the bottle. This is a full-bodied, vigorous yet refined and elegant Hengst Riesling with a long and multi-layered finish. 14.5% stated alcohol. Tasted at the domaine in April 2024.
Published: Feb 07, 2025