From a unique, old parcel in the VDP.Grosse Lage and cultivated on stony, skeleton-rich gravel and loamy soils with porphyry rock in the subsoil, the 2021 Heerkretz Pinot Noir GG offers a pure and refreshing bouquet of red and just-ripe black fruits and red cherries intertwined with toasty, vegetal and finely saline mineral notes. Silky and saline on the palate, this is a pure yet intense, even juicy and fleshy, very elegant and refined Pinot with remarkably fine tannins and precise, finely structured fruit. On the fresh, aromatic and saline finish, initially there are toasty as well as chocolate notes, but they become fruitier and juicier (and less toasty) with aeration; it's a really clear, fresh, juicy and defined finish. Aged for 18 months in used French barriques. 12.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted in January 2024.

Daniel Wagner's red Grosses Gew?chs from his home- and yard-site in Siefersheim, the 2020 Heerkretz Pinot Noir GG shows dense, dark and toasty aromas of perfectly ripe and concentrated sour cherries intertwined with chocolate, graphite and cigar scents as well as mineral freshness and purity. Fresh and elegant on the silky-textured palate, this is a full-bodied, lush, refined and very elegant Pinot with fine tannins intermingled with delicate salinity and mineral grip. Still very young, this is a tense and promising red from a terroir that seems also suited to Pinot Noir as to Riesling. 13% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted in August and December 2022.