Keller Spätburgunder Bürgel GG 2019

98 points Caro Maurer, MW (Decanter): "If any comparison were to be made, it would be with Musigny, whose similar limestone soil results in a comparable style: an iron fist of a wine in a velvet glove. Cool, crystalline pure cherry fruit mingles with appealing stalkiness culminating in notes of autumn leaves. The tannins are firm and prominent yet also ripe and fine grained, while its structure is dense and almost impenetrable. A long-distance runner. Drinking Window: 2021-2040. (8/29/21)"

96 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "The hint of funk on the nose is rapidly replaced by fresh and subtle black and sour-cherry aromas with a delicate touch of toasty oak. Super-elegant and polished palate with a beautiful balance of fine tannin, lively acidity and moderate body. Long, fine-grained finish. Drinkable now, but best from 2023. (8/24/21)"

94 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2019 Bürgel pinot noir is a beautiful bottle in the making, coming in at 12.5 percent octane in this warm summer and offering up lovely complexity on both the nose and palate. Readers may recall that the Bürgel vineyard in Dalsheim is planted to German pinot noir clones, rather than cuttings that originated in Burgundy, but these vines now are fifty years of age and are producing a truly beautiful wine each year. The 2019 offers up a complex and nicely transparent bouquet of red and black cherries, woodsmoke, a touch of spiced meats, a gorgeous base of limestone minerality, lovely cinnamon spice tones from the stems and a gentle touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, ripe and youthful, with a superb core of fruit, tangy acids, fine-grained tannins and excellent focus and grip on the long, complex and very nicely balanced finish. Like all of Klaus-Peter’s pinot noir bottlings, the 2019 Bürgel will need some bottle age to properly blossom, but it is going to be superb once it is ready to drink. 2029-2075. (Jan/Feb 2022)"