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Friedrich Becker "Becker Family" Pinot Noir VDP 2020
Red Wine
German dry red from Pfalz
Jancis Robinson 16.5/20 points for vintage 2013
關於此酒 :
德國Pfalz 區乾紅，100% Pinot Noir 葡萄，輕等濃度，淡紅寶石色，香甜水果、野生草莓、森林、香草、略帶煙草酒香，口感豐富，充滿香甜水果，多汁、清新、優雅、細膩，結構良好，物超所值選擇，品質令人難以置信，適合任何時候飲用。
About this wine :
It’s a lovely, very drinkable Pinot with sweet fruit & exceptional depth. Pleasant, clear ruby red appearance with aromas of wild berries, tobacco, spices & forest floor. The palate is juicy & elegant with good length & structure. Year after year, Becker "Becker Family" Pinot Noir offers incredible quality at such good-valued-for-money price.
關於 WEINGUT FRIEDRICH BECKER 酒莊 :
德國 FRIEDRICH BECKER 狐狸酒莊位於 Pfalz 酒區，自2000年起成為德國VDP會員 (只有德國最優秀酒莊才能加入的協會)，連續8年獲得 Gault Millau 德國No. 1 Pinot Noir 名銜，各地酒評高度評價，酒評人 Robert Parker 表示「Becker 多年以來已是德國最享負盛名的釀酒商之一」，深受 Burgundy 布艮地愛好者追捧。
About WEINGUT FRIEDRICH BECKER :
For many years now, the Becker estate located in Schweigen, very far south of the Pfalz on the border of Alsace, has been one of the top Pinot Noir producers in Germany. The best Becker Pinot Noirs compare favorably with the best Burgundy has to offer.
In 1973 when Fritz Sr. took over the estate from his father, he stopped selling grapes to the local co-op and started bottling and selling his own wines. He was also one of the first that independently, but in parallel with Dr. Heger, Fürst and Meyer-Näkel, started using barriques for his Pinots. In the beginning he was very frustrated trying to successfully in his words “transferring the gift of nature into fine wine”, as his colleagues in France had been doing for many years.
In 2005 Fritz Jr. took over the winemaking at the estate and his father continued to oversee the outside vineyard work. In 2007, the Beckers started to work with lower must weights more in the range from 92-98 Öchsle rather than previously with 100 Öchsle or more. They learned that physiologically ripe fruit needs acid more than additional sugar.
Almost 70% of their vineyards are located in Alsace. The fruit for their Grosses Gewächs Pinot Noirs comes from two great sites: the Kammerberg, a steep single vineyard near Wissembourg was recovered by Fritz Sr. in 1966. The old vines with mostly German clones and some French grow on deep marl lime soils that produce powerful but also refined, mineral driven Pinot Noirs (it is all about the dirt here!); the other Grand Cru is the St. Paul cultivated in the 14th century by the Cistercians of Wissembourg. The site had since become overgrown but the Beckers uprooted trees and bushes in early 2000 and planted a mix of Pinot clones from Dijon and the German Marienfelder clone. The first vintage was harvested in 2004 and even then the Pinots were very fruit driven (the Dijon clones) but with lots of finesse and refinement.
St. Paul Pinots are released two years and the Kammerberg three years after the vintage. The Beckers also produce a Riesling Grosses Gewächs from the Sonnenberg with “poor” limestone soils that brings a surprisingly light and elegant wine. In addition a series of very good Pinot Blancs (a lot of limestone here!), a superb Gewürztraminer and an interesting red, “Guillaume” (a cuvee of Cabernet, Merlot, Dornfelder and Pinot Meunier).
From the 28 ha the Beckers produce over 12,000 cases annually. Plantings are 60% Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, 22% Riesling, and the remaining 18% includes Silvaner, Gewürztraminer and Muskateller.
