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Friedrich Becker "Schweigen" Pinot Noir Rose VDP 2022
Rose Wine
German dry rose from Pfalz
Falstaff 92 points
關於此酒 :
德國 Pfalz 區乾玫瑰酒，100% Pinot Noir 手選葡萄來自一級田 Steinwingert，10-50年老樹藤，深桃紅酒色，香草、野莓、紅櫻桃、李子、血橙、橙皮、微妙烤焗酒香，單寧清新，口感豐富、圓潤，充滿張力，果甜及果酸平衡細緻。
About this wine :
100% Pinot Noir, 8 months in wooden barrel. Grown on the Alsatian side on weathered sandstone soil. The grapes come from our VDP.1.Lage Steinwingert vineyard. The age of the vines ranges from 10 to 50 years. Harvested by hand and carefully selected. Only pure juice extraction, no pressing of the grapes. The controlled fermentation and further aging took place in used barrique barrels. After 8 months of fine lees aging and gentle filtration, the wine was bottled in June 2023.
Falstaff - "Herbal and spicy notes on the nose, with wild berries, red cherry and also plum, blood orange, orange peel and subtle toasty aromas. The palate is tautly structured, with tight-knit extract, ripe, fleshy tannins, discretely rich and yet has good tension, a precise vein of acidity and an underlying chalky minerality, all very well integrated."
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.
