The Fine-ness of German Pinot Noir
2008 Fürst Pinot Noir Klingenberger

If Eric Asimov of the New York Times has written that the time has come to say German Pinot Noir out loud...

...today we'd ask you to whisper it.

Because while all the Pinot Noirs of Paul Fürst are subtle, the Klingenberger is the quietest, the most understated and elegant. This is a needle-fine Pinot, a wine of simply extraordinary textural elegance; it's sappy and sweet-fruited with smoke and iron-inflected notes of soil and mineral. Yet the Klingenberger is really, above everything else, about texture, about form, about the satiny feel and the extreme suppleness of the mid-palate.

This is perhaps our favorite Pinot Noir currently being made in Germany. It's sort of that simple.

Paul Fürst has for many years been one of Germany's greatest practitioners of Pinot Noir and his Klingenberger is the quietest, the most understated and elegant in his stable.