2019 Pinot Noir Passion

The Passion is Donatsch's Premier Cru equivalent. Also made from Burgundy clones, it sees 30% new oak. Martin Donatsch feels 2019 was a particularly elegant vintage for their reds, displaying classic red fruit and fine tannins, something that shines in this wine. The 2019 Passion Pinot Noir displays wonderful red fruit purity and peppery spice on the nose, with notes of cloves, earth and dried roses. Both nose and palate show superb concentration and structure, with a chiselled linearity and mineral complexity. With air, further layers of smoke and pot-pourri emerge, ever changing and pronounced with great aromatic purity and detail. On the palate too the precision and minerality are astounding, while still luxuriating in its resolved sumptuous tannins. (And the alcohol is just 13.5%.)