Weingut Gernot and Heike Heinrich Pinot Freyheit 2023 Washington and crushed violet

and crushed violet

iron-tinged minerality

here it forms the bedrock beneath sandy-clay topsoils

with a plush mid-palate and tannins that are refined and quietly grippy

Weingut Gernot and Heike Heinrich Pinot Freyheit 2023 Washington and crushed violetThe Land This is the playful counterpart to Heinrich's serious Leithaberg reds, and it comes from the same Burgenland base on the eastern shore of Lake Neusiedl. The Pannonian climate here is warm and continental, tempered by the vast shallow lake, and the soils around Gols run to gravel and sand over clay. Those warmer, free draining sites give Pinot Noir a riper, rounder, more open character than the tense limestone slopes, which is exactly what