2019 Pinot Noir Réserve, Pfalz, Germany

Slightly dried tomato and clove-spicy aroma of black and red berries with malty notes, a little wood and wilted flowers. Partly preserved, slightly warm fruit, crumbly-sandy tannin, dark spicy and slightly bready hints, fine-sandy, a hint of drying tannin, some persistence and power, a hint of tar in the background, plus spicy vegetables and hazelnuts, then also salt, good to very good, slightly melting finish with ethereal notes and a little bitterish wood tones as well as with air also some acidity. Clearly superior to the first sample.

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