2018 Auslese trocken "Pinot X", Mosel, Germany

Tart, slightly spicy and dried vegetal to tobacco scent of dark berries and a little cherries with coffee notes, earthy and mineral notes, tobacco, bacon and alcohol. Firmly knitted, ripe, again relatively dark fruit, partly preserved, roasted spicy oak with bitter chocolate notes and some coffee, some acid bite, present, ripe, but also slightly astringent tannins, persistent and very powerful, noticeable alcohol, mineral notes in the background, Brandy cherries, very good, somewhat rustic finish with wood, preserved fruit and alcohol. For friends of this powerful style.

Best to drink: Bis 2022+. What our ratings mean