Weine, Schweiz:

90+/100 Punkt Robert Parker, Feb 2020
Bottled with a moderate 12.8% alcohol, the 2016 Rosso del Ticino Riserva Arcotondo has impressively intense yet pure, elegant and refreshing bouquet of wild cherries, blackthorns and coolish vegetal notes. The wine is concentrated but lush and elegant on the palate, with remarkable finesse and freshness. This is a charming and fleshy blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc that will benefit from further bottle aging, but it is already excellent and has remarkable vitality. Tasted in October 2019.

93+/100 Punkte Robert Parker, Feb 2019
Due to spring frost, there is 50% less quantity compared to a normal year of Tom Litwan's 2016 Oberflachs Auf der Mauer, a beautifully expressive Pinot Noir with a pure, very fine yet intense cherry bouquet with great freshness and spicy flavors. Silky, coolish and very elegant on the palate, this is a straight, tight, vibrantly fresh and spicy but very delicate red with a dense and tensioned finish and remarkable length. Very good concentration and structure here. Tasted in Zurich, November 2018.

91+/100 Punkte Robert Parker, Feb 2018
Peter Wegelin's single-vineyard 2016 Malanser Blauburgunder Scadena is from very calcareous slate soils from a clos that is located below the Bothmar castle. The wine was aged for 12 months in 80% new barriques and another 12 months in used tonneaux. The bouquet is deep, intensely ripe and fruity as well as toasty but very elegant. The palate is full-bodied, dense and tightly structured, with fine but grippy tannins and good acidity. This clear-cut 2016 needs lots of aeration (or time), but its vitality and tension is promising. Release date: autumn this year. Tasted January 2019.

17/20 Punkte Schweiz. Weinzeitung März 2020

17/20 Punkte Schweiz. Weinzeitung März 2020

19/20 Punkte Schweiz. Weinzeitung Dezember 2019

88/100 Punkte Robert Parker September 2017
The 2015 Osterfingen Oberhallau Blauburgunder Zwaa offers a clear, fresh, fruit-intense and spicy bouquet of ripe, thick-skinned cherries along with some toasty notes. The full-bodied wine is silky textured, elegant and reveals rich, intense fruit along with a lot of power. The tannins are fine and ripe, the finish very aromatic and concentrated. An impressive but powerful Pinot Noir from Schaffhausen that is sourced from two different plots, one on heavy clay soils, the other on gravels.

17/20 Punkte Vinum Januar/Februar 2018

88/100 Punkte Robert Parker September 2017
The 2015 Osterfingen Oberhallau Blauburgunder Zwaa offers a clear, fresh, fruit-intense and spicy bouquet of ripe, thick-skinned cherries along with some toasty notes. The full-bodied wine is silky textured, elegant and reveals rich, intense fruit along with a lot of power. The tannins are fine and ripe, the finish very aromatic and concentrated. An impressive but powerful Pinot Noir from Schaffhausen that is sourced from two different plots, one on heavy clay soils, the other on gravels.

17/20 Punkte Vinum Januar/Februar 2018

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker, Feb 2019
The 2016 Thalheim Chalofe starts reductive on the bright, cherry-scented nose. Meaty and fruity on the silky-elegant textured palate and provided with fine but tightly woven tannins, this is a concentrated and tensioned Pinot with purity, transparency and freshness. Very long and tight on the finish, this is still a baby that will need a couple of years to open up. Tasted in Zurich, November 2018.

93/100 Punkte Robert Parker, Feb 2020
From 11- to 50-year-old vines on chalky marl soils and aged in used barriques for one year, the 2017 Thalheim Chalofe is clear, deep, fresh and spicy on the wild and reductive nose with its bright cherry aromas. Lush and intense on the silky-textured palate, this is an elegant, balanced, very charming yet refreshing and tightly woven Pinot with grip and tension. It has very good length and purity. Slightly filtered. Tasted in October 2019.

93/100 Punkte Robert Parker, Feb 2020
From 11- to 50-year-old vines on chalky marl soils and aged in used barriques for one year, the 2017 Thalheim Chalofe is clear, deep, fresh and spicy on the wild and reductive nose with its bright cherry aromas. Lush and intense on the silky-textured palate, this is an elegant, balanced, very charming yet refreshing and tightly woven Pinot with grip and tension. It has very good length and purity. Slightly filtered. Tasted in October 2019.

94/100 Punkte Falstaff Feb-Mär 2018

93/100 Punkte Robert Parker, 29th Sep 2017
The 2015 Thalheim Chalofe has a deep, pure, fresh and coolish bouquet of ripe cherry. On the palate this is a full-bodied, rich and persistent but also pure Pinot Noir with power, intensity and endless juiciness. It is well balanced and provided with remarkable finesse, salinity and tension. This is a gorgeous Pinot Noir from the Aargau. Tasted in Zurich, August 2017.

18/20 Punkte Schweizerische Weinzeitung Dezember 2017

91/100 Punkte Falstaff April 2019
Elegantes Bouquet mit Noten von Agrumen, darunter Grapefruit und Mandarine. Ausserdem reife Mango und Ananas, sowie Mirabelle. Am Gaumen straffe, elegante Säure, dezente Fruchtaromatik und salzig wirkender, langer, mineralischer Abgang.