- Delicious, and Very Interesting in a Unique Way
- Fantastic Out of the Gate
- Nose: Deep, Ripe, Pinot Noir Perfume
- Layered, Deep and Precise
- Cherries, Licorice, Spice, Minerals
- Smells Like Very Good 1er Cru Burgundy
- Stunning Clarity
- Terrific Aromatic Depth and Complexity
- Palate: Deep with Just Stunning Sweetness
- Tiny Mid Season Cherry Fruit Intensity
- Like Chambolle Meets Gevrey
- Gorgeous Burgundian Texture
- Harkens back to Much more Expensive Versions by Hansjorg Rebholz
- Will Age for 10-12 years/ Likely Needs Five
- Most Structured Young Klundt Pinot Yet
- A Wine of Incredible Elegance and Class
- Will Turn out Epic
- I Gave This a 9.5, Which Is Ridiculous for $29.99
Some Perspective on Pricing
- Rebholz's "Im Sonnenschein" Would Cost Over $100 3 Tier
- Ziereisen and Enderle & Moll's Top Wines Cost $50-$70 (Through Me)
- This Wine Is Only $29.99
A Very Important Offer: Quadruple Value Play
1) German Pinot Noir is Substantially Underpriced Relative to Burgundy of the Same Quality.
2) Sven Klundt has only been known, even in Germany, for 6 years so his wines are relatively cheap even there.
3) This Wine is made from Kastanienbusch, one of the Great Vineyards in Germany.
4) I buy Direct, cut out 2 layers of Middlemen and save $15 per bottle.
I'm not sure what else I can say about this wine. The VDP regulates minimum prices that you can charge for wines based on their category. So this would be at least $50 if Sven were in the VDP as Kastanienbusch is a top site and this would be a Grosses Gewachs. Of course Sven isn't and the word hasn't gotten out on this wine yet as it's only been at this quality level in 2017 and 2018. So it's quite inexpensive.
The wine is absolutely of grand cru quality, as one would expect given the vineyard. It has the structure to age beautifully.
The Wine
Today the 2018 Sven Klundt Pinot Noir Kastanienbusch can be had for $29.99 a bottle a 4-pack. This is Grand Cru Pinot Noir from one of Germany's most famous vineyards.
This is the most upfront/out of the bottle version of this wine ever.
The nose will blow you away instantly. It's just a ridiculous silly perfume of Pinot. Stunning fruit on the
nose. Just layered, deep and precise. Mid to late season cherries, licorice, spice, minerals. Wow! Smells like 1er Cru Burgundy. It's just a pungent perfume. Stunning and so so sick. Stunning clarity to the nose. Just sick. Even the most jaded wine drinker will rejoice at the aromatic depth and complexity here. Only Pinot can do this. Magic. Just magic. After air it gets so much better. Just bananas great. Deep red and black cherry and just perfect ripeness. Heavenly spices and unreal depth and refinement. That's what makes this special. The refinement. This nose is a 9.6. Easy. So nimble and spicey. It's so layered. Unreal black and red cherry. Just sick! Since 2014 he has improved so much with his Pinot.
nose. Just layered, deep and precise. Mid to late season cherries, licorice, spice, minerals. Wow! Smells like 1er Cru Burgundy. It's just a pungent perfume. Stunning and so so sick. Stunning clarity to the nose. Just sick. Even the most jaded wine drinker will rejoice at the aromatic depth and complexity here. Only Pinot can do this. Magic. Just magic. After air it gets so much better. Just bananas great. Deep red and black cherry and just perfect ripeness. Heavenly spices and unreal depth and refinement. That's what makes this special. The refinement. This nose is a 9.6. Easy. So nimble and spicey. It's so layered. Unreal black and red cherry. Just sick! Since 2014 he has improved so much with his Pinot.
The palate is deep with just stunning sweetness and the most velvety ripe tannins and such almost 4 dimensional texture. Juicy and clean with amazingly vibrant, lush and tangy fruit. All mid to late season cherries. Big ripe tannins and significant structure. . Wow, so lush and suave on the palate with such freshness and purity. Also the appropriate amount of leanness. Rich but nimble and so focused. Stunning. Amazing mouthfeel and sweetness. Such sap and nerve. It's so aristocratic. There is tiny mid season cherry fruit intensity that is off the charts. Like only the best cherries from the largest bowl of cherries you can imagine. The fruit is so polished and so refined yet also crackles and crunches. So elegant but also deep and structured. Clean and fresh and so so balanced. This is stupid great.
Long energetic and very linear finish. This will improve with air but on the p and p it's insane. Unreal texture. This is so good! After some air this becomes texturally insane. Creamy yet fresh. Profound.
On Day 2 it just got better. Complex aromas and glorious spice. Gorgeous refined and defined cherry fruit. Haunting. This blows away the 17. What a palate. The fruit is so so stunning, decadent and pure. Amazing depth, inner mouth aromas and texture. Amazing mid palate and the juiciest and ripest tannins ever. Stupid good. This is like Chambolle meets Gevrey and it also harkens back to various much more expensive versions by Hansjorg Rebholz. The Chambolle part is the aching beauty and finesse of it and the Gevrey is the flavor profile which is meaty and gamey just like good Gevrey can be. This tells me that Kastanienbusch creates Gevrey like wines as both producers (Klundt and Rebholz) make Kastanienbusch Pinot Noirs and both have a specific gamey/meaty quality. But the difference is you gotta wait 10 years to drink Rebholz. The structure is heavenly and this will age on the fruit and balance alone as the tannins are so ripe, defined and perfectly integrated with the fruit this will drink exceptionally well in its youth, then shut down for 3-4 years and then re-emerge like a runaway freight train.
2018 Sven Klundt Pinot Noir Kastanienbusch - $31.99
($119.96 4-pack)
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