2018

Pinot Noir "Unique"

6 OWC
AOC

Weingut Donatsch

Beschreibung

2018 Pinot Noir "Unique" AOC Graubünden, Weingut Donatsch   

Der im komplett neuen Barrique ausgebaute Wein besitzt eine feinwürzige Nase mit kalkigen Einschüben. In der Jugend noch vom Barrique beeinflusst, doch stets gut integriert. Ein Burgunder, der Kraft und Finesse vereint und durch eine frische Frucht glänzt. Man spürt beim ersten Schluck, dass hier die allerbeste Qualität, nur das feinste Traubenmaterial in den Wein wandert. Ein Wein, der herrlich das perfekte Terroir Graubündens präsentiert.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
Tasted from two different samples, one drawn before the filtration and one afterward, the unfiltered 2018 Pinot Noir "Unique" displays a dark color and opened with a deep, pure, fresh and intense, tart and concentrated, slightly toasty bouquet of black cherries and black berries intertwined with notes of dark chocolate, tobacco, cedar wood box, crushed slate and bloody hints of crushed iron and herbs. Generous on the intense yet elegant palate, this is a fleshy and concentrated Pinot with tart cherry and black berry flavors on the refined and promising, impressively tensioned finish. This full-bodied wine can currently give only hints about its talents, but the sustainable mineral grip and lingering salinity are highly promising. From the filtered tank that was ready to be bottled in early 2020 and already sulfured, the 2018 "Unique" opens very clear, pure, fresh and refined on the elegant yet also still reductive nose and shows a discreet expression of dark fruits, graphite, bloody meat, schist and chocolate. The palate is perfectly silky, round and fleshy, seamlessly textured, with intense and concentrated fruit and a crystalline and nervously mineral backbone structuring the full body. The tannins are perfectly extracted from both skins and 100% new oak barrels. This is a juicy yet pure and finessed, delicately fresh and crunchy Pinot that I'd cellar for at least 3 or 4 years but store enough bottles to drink in 20 or even 30 years. Tasted in January and February 2020. 

James Suckling: 
This really shows what Switzerland can do with pinot noir! Smoky and rooty nose with delicate cassis and spice notes, this is concentrated and well structured, the fine tannins and lively acidity keeping it sharply defined on the medium-bodied palate. Long, refined finish. Drink or hold.