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Pinot Noir, Léon Beyer 2022
Young, fragrant and well-structured pinot from a classic house, this will develop more savoury complexity with time in bottle.
Price:
£18.50
Bottle
Price:
£222.00
Case of 12
In Stock
Code: AL17381
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Light to medium-bodied
- Pinot Noir
- 75cl
- Now to 2027
- 12.5% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, natural
Maison Léon Beyer
The picturesque town of Eguisheim has been at the heart of wine production in Alsace for over a thousand years and for over 400 of those years, the Beyer family has been making wine there. Maison Léon Beyer was founded in 1867 and is one of the Grandes Maisons d’Alsace, part négociant but also important land owner.
For many years the driving force behind this house was the late Léon Beyer. Without question he was one of those figures who helped raise the quality of Alsace wines, championing his cause through the world’s greatest restaurants. In charge today is his son Marc, a qualified oenologist and gastronome.
Maison Beyer produces around a million bottles a year from all Alsace’s grape varieties. Bought-in grapes are used to make all the entry level wines and may sometimes be included in the reserve but in general all the better wines come from Beyer’s 20-odd hectares of vineyard which include important holdings in Eguisheim’s two grands crus, Eichberg and Pfersigberg. For some time, Beyer, like Hugel, tended not to market their wines as grand cru, but today that is changing.
The Beyer style is highly individual and readily recognisable. Grapes are picked fully ripe, and fermented at high temperatures often in large oak foudres. The Beyers' epicurean passions have helped mould the style so that the wines are perfect with food. An essential requirement here is that wines are fermented to dryness, even in the case of pinot gris and gewurztraminer. The top wines are marketed ...