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Weingut Bercher
The family run Weingut Bercher has owned the family emblem since 1457. In the last 2 decades the family has enlarged the estate whilst carefully maintaining the highest winemaking quality standards.
With 42 acres of vines, it is the 2nd largest private vineyard in the Kaiserstuhl in Baden and is also a member of the V.D.P. Tradition and family commitment to environmentally friendly cultivation are just a few basics of this winery that is being run by the 9th and 10th generation. The family mansion was built by Franz Michael Bercher, 250 years ago in 1756.
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
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Spicy black juicy brambly fruit, this Spätburgunder wine has more in common with the succulent wonders of Central Otago. It’s certainly fuller bodied that the Heger wine, and more structured, almost balancing out the significant amounts of new oak. Drinking now but should keep and even improve.
David Berry Green
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