96 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "Astonishingly fresh nose of blood orange, sour cherry and wild herbs with a touch of flint. At once concentrated and filigree, this is a very elegant pinot noir, particularly when you consider this was a warm drought year. Impressive delicacy at the very long finish. Drinkable now, but best from 2024. (8/9/22)"
93 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2020 Bürgel pinot noir is another impressively refined and elegant bottle, which speaks to the fine touch that the Kellers have with this variety, as it is not easy in a hot summer like 2020 to retain this type of refinement. The wine again tips the scales at 12.5 percent octane and offers up a beautifully complex bouquet of red and black cherries, dark chocolate, smoked meats, roses, a complex base of limestone minerality, delicate spice tones and just a hint of cedar. On the palate the wine is bright, medium-full and complex, with lovely intensity of flavor and transparency, good acids, fine-grained tannins and a long, beautifully balanced finish. The general perception in Germany is that pinot noir from German clones can never attain greatness, but this is most emphatically not true of the Bürgel bottling from Felix and Klaus-Peter Keller! 2028-2065. (Sep/Oct 2022)"
93 points David Schildknecht (Vinous): "This came out of cask in February 2022 and was bottled unfiltered from tank in July of that year. It's due for release in spring 2023. It smells fantastic. High-toned cherry almond is accompanied by floral effusions sweetly suggestive of freesia and a strong suggestion of animal savor that seems equal parts veal and scallop. All of this cashes out on the glossy palate into bright, crunchy red berry juiciness, inner-mouth perfume and mouthwatering carnality. Smoke and toasted coconut hints are the only direct indications of oak influence, and they’re perfectly complementary. Nor, clearly, can wood be any significant drag on the finish because it’s impeccably pure-fruited, animatingly tangy and downright refreshing, as well as possessive of saline-sweet evocations of raw bivalves and crustacean that are quite uncanny. “Bürgel was always entirely from German clones,” explains Keller. But beginning with this edition, nearly half of the wine’s volume reflects Burgundian sélection massale. And not from young vines. Rather, the new material was top-grafted onto the old. “Spätburgunder on Spätburgunder,” as Keller puts it. Drink: 2022-2042. (Mar 2023)"
93 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2020 Bürgel pinot noir is another impressively refined and elegant bottle, which speaks to the fine touch that the Kellers have with this variety, as it is not easy in a hot summer like 2020 to retain this type of refinement. The wine again tips the scales at 12.5 percent octane and offers up a beautifully complex bouquet of red and black cherries, dark chocolate, smoked meats, roses, a complex base of limestone minerality, delicate spice tones and just a hint of cedar. On the palate the wine is bright, medium-full and complex, with lovely intensity of flavor and transparency, good acids, fine-grained tannins and a long, beautifully balanced finish. The general perception in Germany is that pinot noir from German clones can never attain greatness, but this is most emphatically not true of the Bürgel bottling from Felix and Klaus-Peter Keller! 2028-2065. (Sep/Oct 2022)"
93 points David Schildknecht (Vinous): "This came out of cask in February 2022 and was bottled unfiltered from tank in July of that year. It's due for release in spring 2023. It smells fantastic. High-toned cherry almond is accompanied by floral effusions sweetly suggestive of freesia and a strong suggestion of animal savor that seems equal parts veal and scallop. All of this cashes out on the glossy palate into bright, crunchy red berry juiciness, inner-mouth perfume and mouthwatering carnality. Smoke and toasted coconut hints are the only direct indications of oak influence, and they’re perfectly complementary. Nor, clearly, can wood be any significant drag on the finish because it’s impeccably pure-fruited, animatingly tangy and downright refreshing, as well as possessive of saline-sweet evocations of raw bivalves and crustacean that are quite uncanny. “Bürgel was always entirely from German clones,” explains Keller. But beginning with this edition, nearly half of the wine’s volume reflects Burgundian sélection massale. And not from young vines. Rather, the new material was top-grafted onto the old. “Spätburgunder on Spätburgunder,” as Keller puts it. Drink: 2022-2042. (Mar 2023)"
| Product SKU | 354265 |
| Producer | Keller |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Rheinhessen |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Designation | Grosses Gewachs |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | Red |
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