- One of the Best Red Wines in Germany
- Their Top Pinot Bottling
- Nose: High Toned
- Spice, Limestone, so Mineral, Fresh Herbs
- Top Notch Complexity
- Day 2 - Top Notch 1er Cru Volnay Nose
- Palate: Sour Cherry, Mid-Season Cherry, Pomegranate
- Cherry Flower, A Hint of Ripe Dark Cherry
- Insane Concentration, Depth and Power
- Focused Tiny Berry Fruit
- Terrific Palate Vivacity - Almost Alive on the Palate
2017 Thörle Spätburgunder Gutswein
- Amazing and Delicious Fruit
- Crazy Intense Dark Cherry and Raspberry Nose
- But Has That Thorle Minerality and Acidity
- You Know You'll Need an Affordable Red You Want to Drink Some Day...
- 91 Points for $19.99 on a Case
- Neck Breaking QPR
- One of the Big 4 Stunning Value German "Bourgogne Rouge"
In Germany, after learning about, tasting and selling Pinot Noir now for 7+ years, the top echelon is starting to shake out and Thorle is definitely in the top 10 and pushing to be as high up in that group as they can. They are loved by the critics and are in increasing demand in the German market. The world is starting to pay attention to German Pinot Noir - these guys are going to be very important.
The Wines
Thörle's most iconic bottling is the brilliant Hölle Pinot Noir. It's their top Grand Cru site and for me the most complete, complex and ageworthy wine in their lineup. It's pure class in a glass and since 2014 always been a must buy. In 2015 it took a step forward and separated itself from the excellent Probstey Grand Cru. Probstey is incredible and I have some clients that prefer it but that's the same way some people prefer Rousseau's CSJ over the Chambertin Clos de Beze for example. Or La Tache over Romanee Conti. For me, CDB from Rousseau and Romanee Conti are better wines than CSJ and La Tache but I'm not going to get into a battle over why one wine is better than the other. They are both out of this world but objectively speaking with all things being even the better terroir usually wins out. The Hölle is a briliant site with heavy limestone that makes incisive and deep Pinots with a cool climat feel to it. The Thörle brothers not only make world class Pinot Noir from it but they also make world class Riesling from it.
The Hölle Pinot is not only a brilliant wine it improves every year. 15 is better than 14. 16 is better than 15 and today we come across the 2017 Thörle Hölle Spätburgunder for $59.99 a bottle on a 4-pack. Another Fass 4-3-1 as you gotta drink one young. I'm not gonna lie and day there isn't
The nose is unforgettable and so haunting. The fruit is so precise, so well defined andwith plenty of it that is cut with amazing limestone freshness. Each year the wine adds something and in 2017, at this young stage, the wine has stepped it up in the aroma game. That's the top reason to open one young. It's so so so great. Just a ridiculous wine. Heaven in a nose. Just so high toned. It's like a sphere. Spice, limestone, so mineral, some fresh herbs, so, so, so, complex.
Palate. Sour cherry to medium cherry, pomegranate, cherry flower and a hint of ripe dark cherry, but only a hint. It's always changing it's hard to pin down. Amazing fruit definition. Clarity is just amazing. Mint, tree bark, transcendent. Deep and juicy but also not nearly as open as the nose. It's transcendent. It's long. It's complex. It's got intense and substantial structure. Insane concentration, depth and power. What great palate presence and vivacity - it's almost like it's alive on the palate. Sappy and mouth coating fruit and tannin and so complex. Amazing, mineral infused tannins. This is such a great wine. It's young and in 5-6 years will be epic but this is remarkable stuff. The tiny berry sweet fruit intensity is something else. Amazing texture. Almost a hint of creaminess. This is just a sphere of Pinot. Just so focused and linear. Amazing finish. Remarkable. So so so long. The echoes of fruit on the finish are endless.
On Day 2 you have such an ethereal nose. Smells like high end 1er Cru Volnay. Gorgeous cherries, woodland berries, spice, forest floor and mineral. The palate is deep and structured with sappy cherries and serious structure. Really noble tannins and wonderful purity. Long, ripe high quality tannins. Really really long. Just an insane wine. Brilliant. Really needs 5 years but what a wine.
For the second wine, I have the stunningly delicious and brilliant 2017 Thörle Spätburgunder Gutswein for $21.99 a bottle on a 4-Pack and $19.99 on a 12 bottle case. This got 91 points by Stuart Piggot. Neck breaking QPR. This is a silly stupid deal for a wine that is this delicious, charming, a full blown super expressive Pinot with fruit and lovely limestone sap, and a nice elegant structure. It doesn't exist. I think out of all 3 of the under $20 German Pinots I sell this is the most textured, structured and mineral while having the always transcendent and pure Pinot fruit that is next to impossible to get at under $20. A value does not always have to be a $20 bottle of wine. Value comes at all price points. But today's wine is $20 and one of the best values I sell.
The nose is so intense and has loads of dark cherries and wild raspberries. Some woodland berry aspects as well as a strong limestone footprint. Somewhere between charming and fascinating.
The palate has huge, ridiculously delicious and textured sweet fruit, a hint of mint, lovely freshness due to on point acidity that is so clear and precise and a very long mineral finish with hints of salted woodland berry. Just terrific. Wonderful ripe tannins that are so elegant. This is a stunning wine for the money. It does not get better for $20 and this is a case purchase for sure. It is perfect for wine geeks and normies alike. Below is the Piggot 91 PT Review.
"Very attractive black cherries with hints of wet earth and smoke. For a basic pinot noir this has a serious tannin structure and a bold finish. A great food wine! Bottled unfiltered. Drink or hold." 91 points Stuart Piggot
2017 Thorle Holle Spatburgunder "GG" - $61.99
($239.96 4-pack) (*Including Tariff of $7.00)
2017 Thorle Spatburgnder Gutswein - $23.99
($87.96 4-Pack, $239.88 12-Pack {$19.99})
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