The very expressive bouquet is fuelled by primary fruit, not oak or spice, although it’s quite certain the spices will bloom with time. Still deeply coloured, purple dominating crimson. The wine shows vibrancy and crunch, with clear precise cherry and red berry fruit, silky tannins, salty mineral tones and a streak of Old World acidity.Ģ013 Bernhard Huber Alte Reben Pinot Noir MAGNUM $207 Bernhard Huber Malterdinger Pinot Noir is the expression of the family’s beautiful home village and its impeccably situated vineyards. James Halliday October 2020Ģ017 Bernhard Huber Malterdinger Pinot Noir $64īernhard Huber made this Germany’s number one Pinot Noir estate, and his son Julian is taking it forward in great strides. No fears for the future, the length and balance won’t change.
It’s a wine still in the first phase of development, the fruit and tannins both firm.
The colour is excellent, bright, clear and youthful. Gary Walsh, The Wine Front April 2019Ģ013 Bernhard Huber Malterdinger Pinot Noir MAGNUM $124 Rich in oak and flavour, lime and toasted nuts, spicy and firm, intense acidity, toasty oak and grip on a nuts and lime finish of good length. White fruit, struck match, spicy oak, hazelnut, dried herb and flower perfume. Then he found them again and sent them through, so we thought we’d put them here among other brilliant bits and pieces.Ģ015 Bernhard Huber Alte Reben Chardonnay $96 James had a look at a set of back-vintage Huber wines some time ago and loved them so much he lost his notes. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir love these conditions, with assertive acidity and salty minerality to drive the ripe fruit deep and long.
The possibilities of these beautiful Baden sites and their limestone underpinnings are endless. With Bernhard’s long-serving assistant Yquem Viehhauser at his side, Julian’s taking the wines to greater heights. “As you ascend the steps of the quality ladder of Huber,” Halliday wrote, “the quality of each wine seems to be incapable of being overtaken, but it is.”īernhard Huber died of illness in June 2014, and it’s his son Julian who now holds the reins. That admiration went right across the range. James Halliday has long been a huge fan of the late Bernhard Huber, whose wines prompted the Australian wine oracle to pen a piece back in the day entitled “German Pinot Noir – why you need it in your life”.
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