Perhaps the Best Under $30 Pinot Noir in the World. From Enderle & Moll in Germany. I'm Not Kidding. Must Read.

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Drinking This Is an Emotional Experience
If You Have Not Tried Enderle & Moll . . . Your Pinot Noir Expertise Is Incomplete - You NEED to Try This

I just got back from Germany right before Labor Day and each time I write and offer wines it
transports me back to the trip so vividly. This email represents one of the most important emails I will ever write at Fass Selections. I'm not exaggerating. When I tasted the 2015 Pinot Noirs out of barrel with Sven Enderle and Florian Moll (Florian, regrettably, had to leave early) all I could do was laugh. I was laughing like a madman and my tasting notes were as profane as one can get when in the company of a good friend who also happens to be an utterly brilliant winemaker. You know what I mean. Only great Pinot brings out the potty mouth. When Pinot Noir is this great, all one can do is resort to laughter and vile bathroom humor. Or at least me. The first wine we tasted I thought was either Bundstandstein or Muschelkalk. No it was actually the Basis which I have not sold. I was shocked. I was like "Sven, dude, there is no way this wine can be this good?? I'm a good taster and I thought it was one of the big boys??!? What have you got here in these barrels?" We continued to taste and I could not believe what I was tasting. It was a triumph in the convergence of all that one loves or can love in wine. A winemaker hitting his peak converging with a once in a generation vintage all at a very very fair price. It is not fool's gold.

The 2015s from Enderle and Moll are amongst the finest set of Pinot Noirs I've ever had the privilege of tasting. They are just magic.

And with that I have today the 2015 Enderle & Moll Pinot Noir "Liason," for as little as $25.99 on a 4-pack. If you've never had Enderle and Moll buy this wine. It is perhaps the greatest Pinot Noir for the money one can buy currently in the world. I've sold '11, '12, '13, '14 and now '15 and each one is a triumph, but the '15 is the top of Everest as far as Liason is concerned. It is easily the quality of the single vineyard Muschelkalk/Bundtstandtstein in any other year. It's a crazy wine. In a few years it will be even crazier.

Below is my "rushed note" which I will translate in more evocative terms.

"Huge nose. Cherry, bowl of cherries, ripe as anything can ever be ripe without being overripe, palate is dense, intense and juicy with serious velvety, sexy oh so sweet tannins and earth. Amazing vivid fruit. So intense. This is genius." 

That note maybe captures a small part of the wine which is very important of course. Length, fruit, quality of fruit, quality of tannin, freshness which there was an impressive amount of, earthy nuances and the such. But it does not capture the emotional impact that these Pinot Noirs have. It's truly an emotional experience this wine. It is almost hard to comprehend how this can be so filigreed, elegant, beautiful, and of such high quality for so little money. The fact that there is something like this that exists in the world is a wonder in itself. I'm not talking just wine. The 2015 Liason is a take your  breath away wine and life experience. I did not expect these wines to impact me like this. Sven is a genius of the highest degree has his collection of 2015s are his magnum opus. This is limited. I have some reserved but they never know how much wine they have until they actually bottle it in November.

Up next I have a small amount of a Fass Selections cult favorite, the 2015 Enderle and Moll Spatburgunder Rose for $19.99 a bottle on a 3-pack. This wine is very popular and this is by far the best vintage and it will be tightly allocated. I have much less than the Liason. That is also why I am offering it in 3-packs. The wine is crazy. It is on my list of Top 10 Roses In the World According to Me, and is just so distinctive. It retains a serious vinous almost like it's a red/rose cross. At times it comes across as red at other times Rose, kind of like the Tavel Rose from Anglore. But more close to rose but it tows the line for sure. It is a profound bottle of rose. Huge berry and cherry fruit on the nose. So vivid. Huge and intense palate with gorgeous tannins. Yes this rose has tannins! So juicy. Almost like a red wine. So sick.   Huge inner mouth aromas. Ridiculously long finish. It does not get more distinctive and delicious for rose. I can see this being as sought after and rare as the Cotat Roses one day.


For those of you who do not yet know Enderle & Moll, they are the cult pinot noir stars of Germany. The wines are allocated on the lists at the top Michelin starred restaurants in Germany.  One charges $1,000 for one of their single vineyard wines.  Another has them on a special list only made available to top customers.  They make a pitifully small amount of wine (under 2 HA).  The well respected Jancis Robinson loves them.  They make 3 more expensive bottlings but I only sell them to a list of the people who bought the first vintages as they sell out twice over in an hour.  These guys are the real deal.  They will be Germany's calling card in the debates over the top producers of Germany in the world over the next decades.  These wines are going to continue to get more expensive as more people find out about them.

2015 Enderle & Moll Pinot Noir "Liason" - $27.99 ($103.96 4-pack) (LIMITED)

2015 Enderle & Moll Spatburgunder Rose - $21.99 ($59.97 3-pack) (VERY LIMITED)