WTN: Good Palatinate Pinot Noir (sic!)

• Weingut Siegrist Pinot Noir (sic!) Trocken 2006 - Germany, Pfalz (9/5/2009)
  19,20€; 13% abv; 5,3g/l acidity. Siegrist, says the blurb on our monopoly's web-site, was one of the pioneers of oak use in the Pfalz. This spends 16 months in used oak from Alliers. With so much on the blurb about oak, I was expecting something unpleasant, but actually the oak isn't really very evident at all. It starts out with a very, very sweet scent of strawberries. It is pure Pinosity but of a rather ripe kind. There is also a slight balsamic/seaweed touch so one can see it has seen oak, but otherwise there is nothing obviously oaky about the wine (gladly!).
  
  
  
  Medium-light body, sweet and ripe fruit, decent structure to cope with the fruit but it does come across a product of a warm year. Clean finish with some of the cherry tartness I like to see in PN that was sadly missing otherwise. Nice stuff, though not as interesting as the Aostan Pinot!

Posted from CellarTracker

Good report, Otto!

I eagerly await your forthcoming reports on the Pinots of Iceland, Brittany, and the Aland Islands (sorry, I don't know how to do the cute little 0 above the a).

I eagerly await your forthcoming reports on the Pinots of Iceland, Brittany, and the Aland Islands

You left out Kent!

Although I think Otto has reported on some Scandinavian wines. Or was that someone else.

I think I was too hasty in my praise. Now that we have had this open for about 2 hours, it has started to smell of the beers - like Harviestoun's Ola Dubh range - that are aged in whisky casks. The pinosity has largely disappeared.

But Hoke, why the joking about Pinot in Northern areas? Pfalz, being the south-western wine region of Germany, isn't all that far north.

and the Aland Islands (sorry, I don't know how to do the cute little 0 above the a).

Now, Hoke, that's really a piece of cake: just hit the key labeled with an "Å"...
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Thanks for the tip, Anders.

So, when can we share a nice bottle of fine Kobba Libre?