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Volume 21, The Pinot Edition

October 2024

Digital image of pinot noir grapes layered

October 2024

Dear Readers,

For all the abundance of native varieties and successful crossings found throughout German-speaking lands, growers and wine drinkers come back to one beloved import again and again and again.

Clevner, Klebroth, Blauburgunder, Spätburgunder — Pinot Noir. They are the same grape, known by regional names that give local identity to a variety that now calls everywhere home.

In Volume 21, we devote ourselves to all things Pinot. 

We start with no less an authority than Anne Krebiehl MW. She offers an essential, constructively critical assessment of where the promise of German Pinot has been realized, and where not.  

Next comes Camilla Gjerde’s exploration of the carbon-neutral farming at Mythopia that gives rise to three of Switzerland’s most extraordinary Pinots. The inimitable Sebastian Bordhäuser romps through the freewheeling realm of Pinot Landwein. Paula herself reports on the Mosel’s first Pinot Noir GG — a telling turn for ancient Ruwer Riesling estate Maximin Grünhaus.

 Beauty is all in the balance. So you’ll also find Matthias Neske on Muschelkalk as a wine-making vessel (taking terroir to another level in Franken), along with Håvard Flatland dissecting the elements of greatness in Austria’s Heiligenstein, Ani Duzdabanyan on Alpine Sylvaner, and more.

Our gorgeous cover illustration for this volume is by Meg Maker. Her personal response to the Pinot prompt captures our electric excitement for the many layers of this complex grape. We hope it does for you, too. 

Eure

Paula and Valerie

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Old-fashioned Alsace glasses filled with Pinot Noir wine
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A Pinot Noir Awakens in Alsace

ByBenjamin Roelfs December 19, 2024December 19, 2024

What does Alsace’s new red cru signal for Pinot Noir?

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Franken Casks the First Stone

ByMatthias Neske December 9, 2024December 5, 2024

Silvaner aged in shell limestone casks: quintessential expression of terroir, steinwein 2.0, or a flight of foolishness?

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Seven at One Sip: a Heiligenstein Journey

ByHåvard Flatland December 4, 2024December 5, 2024

Is there a way to understand a vineyard? Wines from certain sites evoke the urge to uncover more about the place and the reason the…...

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The Secrets of Great Sekt
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The Secrets of Great Sekt

ByPaula Redes Sidore October 21, 2024October 21, 2024

Gerhild Burkhard, founder of the International Sparkling Festival, reveals everything you've always wanted to know about sekt (*but were afraid to ask). 

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Germany

German Pinot’s Pride and Prejudice

ByAnne Krebiehl October 7, 2024October 7, 2024

Can German Pinot Noir finally catch on or is forever fashionably spät(burgunder)?

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