Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Lovely red fruits and very gentle, lipstick like intensity, juicy and so clean, textured and velvety wispy tannins.
— a year ago

Jim Nelson

9.1

Never get enough Spatburgunders at home. If this were Burgundy, people would call it “masculine.” — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Always so good. Opulent and incisive. Deep nose. Lots of amplitude. Huge limestone. Herbal. So complex. German Chardonnay is so awesome. What a palate. Huge core of apple and pear fruit and stacked with minerals and a malo sweetness. So long and nimble. Gorgeous wine. Almost 9.5. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Super mineral. Floral. Crystalline. Crunchy and mineral. So so juicy and clean. Earthy and meaty. So good. — 3 years ago

Dan Weisshaar

9.2

Lovely pinkish tinge, piney with apple and pear fruit. Great balance and citrus precision. Fantastic over several days. — 3 years ago

with Lyle and Matthew

Tatiana Ernst

9.0

Super smooth. Lovely — 6 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Look at that Fucking color. Yes that is what Pinot is supposed to look like. Gorgeous. Unreal nose. Sour cherries, dry leaves, pinpoint precision. Takes 45 minutes to an hour before the symphony begins. But the unfurling and aromatic nuances are just gorgeous. The fruit is almost non existent on the nose the first 15-30 minutes then BAM! Palate is just amazing. Red Riesling on another level. This showing reminds me of Möbitz. It’s so ethereal and lacey. Stunning. Amazing delicate and refined red cherry fruit. More mid to early season cherries and gloriously juicy and perfectly ripe. This is so fine. Velvety and delicate Lacey tannins weave in and out of the finish. Stunning almost silly freshness. Stellar. — 6 years ago

Brian R

9.4

Ver precise. Strawberry and raspberry. — 7 years ago

Marisa Reisman

9.4

Lovely light dinner wine in the east village — 8 years ago

with Jane and Levon

Matthew Christ

9.0

Been crushing these 14s. No patience for cellaring. So tasty. — 9 years ago

with Lyle

Joan Torrents

9.0

Silky Spatburgunder with sunstance — 10 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.3

Was looking for a Pinot with a bit more structure and opened up this - man, this has evolved beautifully over the last 2y! Showing such finesse & elegance right now, the tannins so fine & smooth and the fruit shining. This is really a beauty to open up now.
Red berries with undergrowth, some tree bark, a hint of exotic spice & orange zest, maybe a whiff of dark cherry. So fresh, so juicy, so enticing!!
On the palate this sings! Impeccably balanced, with great depth & elegance.
Wow. This is quite profound and a stunner!
What a beauty! — a year ago

Matteo Killenberg

9.0

Blindflug Pinot Noir 24.03.23 — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Always such a stunning aroma. Herbal, vegetables, huge aromas and so precise. So juicy and what acidity. This is a stunning version. So juicy and so fresh. Linear and unreal clarity. What a brilliant version. — 3 years ago

Andrew McIntyre

9.2

Very similar to a chardonnay but for €16 this offers unrivaled value. Insane minerality with petrol notes and little touches of stonefruit. Immediately bought more!!! — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

A genius Klingelberger. What a nose. So floral. Flower shop levels. Little shop of insane dry Riesling. Gorgeous Mosel like fruit. Smells ripe and sweet but also bone dry. Green apples. Pear. Apricot. So vivid and detailed. Just wonderful. Lime blossom, sweet lime. Endless aromas. Fresh field level 10. But also rock quarry. Staggering young Klingelberger aromas. Palate is epic like a Norwegian Viking documentary epic. Dense, structured, deep man is this deep with just stunning purity and freshness. So vivid and so detailed. This is god level balance. So long. Never ends. The purity of this wine is just incredible. Amazing finesse and elegance and screamingly mineral and very very complex on the finish. This is a staggering young Klingelberger. 9.7. Yup. Just genius. Amazing concentration and depth. Really I can’t get over how good this is. — 5 years ago

with Matthew

Severn Goodwin

9.3

A cold, rainy day in the Berkshires today, several degrees cooler and we'd be getting snow instead. I'm not ready, still yardwork to get done this season!

A head-to-head matchup today, '15 vs. '16 E&M 'Müller' Müller-Thurgau. This '15 is our last bottle, so this is the final evolution check. 😕

No evidence of dissolved gas (CO2 or N2) in this bottle like the '16 showed, but it got a decant anyways. Gold-yellow in color, distinctly different from the '16 today.

Nose has smoked honey, almonds, tropical fruit skins, extra ripe mango and light aroma of crushed minerals.

Palate has gotten crazy complex, honey, stone fruits, pineapple core, tangerine, lemon pith and mashed tropical fruit. Evolving more with each sip, finish is picking up a nice apricot note.

Wow what a difference the extra year makes. Likely we're hiding the remainder of our '16 away for maybe a year or two, hopeful on a similar evolution. — 7 years ago

Matt Sharp

9.1

Great unfiltered wine at the price. Will get again. Good year round selection for our warm climate in NOLA — 8 years ago

Oliver Schweitzer

9.3

Elegant as in clear, light, delicate. Great mouthfeel, balanced, not too sweet. Fine fine Gewürz. — 9 years ago

Oliver Schweitzer

9.5

#verticals2015 — 10 years ago

with Cool and Henrik

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.0

Tannic, cherry, earthy. Medium fruit. Plum. — a year ago

ESF

8.9

Revisiting this gnarly wine - similar experience if not a bit more cohesive. Drinks so much better at cellar temp, such impressive weight & flavor extraction — 2 years ago

Ray Vanderhoff

9.1

Bright garnet color. Aromas of dark cherry, mushroom, tomato skin with a touch of barnyard funk. Pallet is full of ripe red fruit (cherry, cranberry , raspberry & plum) with notes of mushrooms, baking spices and minerals. A bit of smoke on the finish. Silky tannins. Medium bodied and bright. — 2 years ago

Eric

9.3

Elegant and sophisticated and just reserved enough to keep you totally occupied and interested. @Lyle Fass Fantastic! — 3 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.4

Richer, denser, with more weight yet still very fresh, very fine and with loads of character.
Cherries & cranberries galore with touch of undergrowth, mushrooms and herby spice.
On the palate this is not that light, with slightly chewy yet very juicy tannins, brilliant acidity, a tea like mouthfeel. Complex, layered, elegant. This is quite exceptional! — 4 years ago

lynne marek

9.1

I thought this was one of rhe best German pinots I tasted at a recent wine club meeting focused on German wines. — 6 years ago

Hugh O'Riordan

8.9

My first German Pinot. A little funky taste and tight. Still an interesting Pinot. Age will help. — 7 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.2

Light & elegant - with fresh, juicy acidity and quite surprising grip (big wood). Tart raspberries and red currants, a touch of spice. Beautifully balanced. — 7 years ago

Fabian Kühlhorn

8.9

Dammig grusväg i doften. Massa fat. Lingon. Torr, kartig syrlighet. — 8 years ago

with Axel, Måns and 3 others

Oliver Schweitzer

9.4

Hedonist beverage. — 9 years ago