2020 Weinbach Altenbourg Pinot Noir, Alsace

In a blind tasting you could easily mistake this for a top 1er Cru wine from Beaune in Burgundy! Effusive cherry fruit that’s hard to resist. Stunning balance of concentrated fruit, very fine tannins and restrained richness. Then comes the totally silky finish with underplayed power that pulls you back for more of this Alsace pinot elixir.

95 points Stuart Pigott jamessuckling.com

Biodynamic. Echoing the note below, Eddy Faller explains that his Altenbourg Pinot Noir exhibits a more velvety structure than the Schlossberg-raised wine. To highlight each wine’s origins, the winemaking is almost identical, with a ten-day cold soak, followed by up to two weeks on skins, and long aging in predominantly old oak. Again, half the fruit was destemmed. The vines are planted at 10,000 vines per hectare using massale selections from the Clos des Epeneaux in Pommard and the ’21 was crafted from weather-affected yields of below 10 hl/ha.