Pinot Noir Brauneberger Klostergarten*** Weingut Markus Molitor 2017

„The 2017 Pinot Noir Brauneberger Klostergarten *** is deep and complex on the pure and flinty nose that exhibits an intense cherry aroma intertwined with refreshing flinty slate and herbal aromas. Silky, round and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied and powerful, mouth-filling, juicy and highly complex yet always refined and vivacious Pinot with a remarkable fine tannin and acid complex that lifts but also balances this pure and energetic, salty-finishing Pinot that reveals just a tiny bit of fresh oak and a brittleness. The aftertaste is serious, intense, wide and mouth-filling yet always fresh and pure. Round, fresh and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, silky-textured, intense and powerful yet finessed and even iodine Pinot of great expression and quality. The tannins are very fine and perfectly interwoven with the crystalline slate acidity. A gorgeous 2017. Tasted in May 2021.“
95/100 Punkte – Trinkreife: 2024-2040

"Scents and flavors of dark cherry, tamarind and licorice mingle with resinous and toasty notes from barrel, and those woody elements are affiliated with faint textural roughness. Fortunately, there is no drying influence from the oak, and the finish here offers succulent, sweetly ripe dark berry fruit. To the extent there is a carnal dimension to this bottling, it is of a gamy sort. The mouthwatering savor and mineral complexity of the Trarbacher Schlossberg or the ostensibly lesser "one-star" bottling are conspicuously and regrettably missing, at least for now."
90/100 Punkte