Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

spice, mineral, cardamom, concentrated, sappy and super stone fruits, concentrated, pure, amazing combo and spice and stone fruits. amazing inner mouth aromas. — 2 years ago

Eric

9.3

Elegant and sophisticated and just reserved enough to keep you totally occupied and interested. @Lyle Fass Fantastic! — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Best Swiss Pinot I’ve ever had courtesy of Hanspeter Ziereisen. Freaking unreal nose. Dark violets, alpine scents galore, the best and most pure, vivid black cherries I’ve ever smelled. Wow. Just stunning. Smells rich but alpine rich! This is only just beginning as air is always the friend of anything HPZ makes. Wow that palate. Incredible freshness and density allied with just the most amazing finesse. This is as grand as any burgundy grand cru. Man, I could smell this forever. Amazing structure and the sweetest most velvety tannins. Amazing fruit concentration. What a finish. What complexity. Just stunning. Super young but super incredible. 18 is the best vintage of Riehen I’ve ever tasted. As it airs the fruit comes more Into focus on the palate and the nose. What clarity. Just a tiny hit of opulence and then unreal freshness, leanness and sweet fruit. Unreal juxtaposition. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Just a stunning but young Jaspis Syrah which is one of the greatest Syrahs in the world. Stunningly aromatic nose that echoes the Ziereisen Pinots yet it’s Syrah. Meat, fresh and bloody, some pleasant bittersweet cocoa like oak. Insane aromas. Head spinning. Berry. Flowers. Tree bark. Earth. Just so so aromatic. And right out of the bottle. Yet the palate is a bit tighter but no less amazing. Amazing fruit and so silky. Amazingly juicy but also delicate and just has a palate presence that demands your focus. Amazing fruit on the backend that is almost Burgundian. My goodness this is so so long. Hermitage level. Endless finish. It’s so fresh and the limestone just screams on the finish. Just an amazing wine. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Stunning. My note got eaten. — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Stunning. Wow. Complex nose. Insane structure and density. After 15 minutes so floral. Long and explosive. At dinner. Not formal notes. — 5 years ago

Olivino Wines

9.4

Beautiful aromas, hazelnuts, pineapple, green apple, bone dry, complex, layers of flavors! — 8 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

What a value. Lovey nose of minerals and stone fruits. Palate is rich and ripe yet this is framed beautiful by amazing acidity but the texture is still rich. This is awesome. Nice finish as well but the mid and attack are the star. So juicy and light yet rich. — 8 years ago

Marc Castillo

9.2

Bright on the front end with a dry and clean finish! Would order it again — 8 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.0

Aromas are there at arms length - wild orange and baked peach cobbler. Accents of cinnamon, orange zest and bourbon spiked vanilla ice cream. Fun mix in lower amplitudes. — 2 years ago

Ely Cohn

8.9

Faint, slightly oxidized pears and apple with an aortic vessel of acid powering through. Nondescript tastes of white flowers and yellow orchard fruits. — 2 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.7

Just opened this. One can tell this will be a journey. I would only open this if you have at least 2-3 hours to Taste it. It’s all over the place on open. Basically tastes like if Ziereisen made wine in the mountains.

Nose is dense but has that alpine thing you get from like savoie. Very pretty. Almost intoxicating. Like a field of flowering cherry trees on top of a mountain.

Palate is very bright. Sweet cherry fruit.

A 9.5 easy on open. I’m guessing this will be better as it airs and integrates.

As this opens holy fuck. Nose is alpine with some gevrey spice. Palate is rubber made from grape vines (I know impossible), cherry. Rich. Elegant Cherry extract. Just a kiss of bitterness. Wowowowowo. So elegantly rich. Unbelievable.

Bought from fass selections. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

This wine gets better every vintage. Just stunning. Color is almost a pinkish hue on this years. Guessing some skin contact but only a little just to get the color as this has no tannin etc. What a nose. Stone fruits, hint of wood, huge minerality that is so clean and smells like some fresh new element. Can’t explain it. So mineral. Just soars yet is straight and direct. Some pink and white flowers as well. Concentrated yet so so elegant with dazzling purity and an intense fruit skin character. Dazzling purity and such focus and linearity. The fruit is so well defined and just stays with you and pushes forward on the palate slowly. Knockout finish. Just a brilliant bottle. I’m sure later in the day it will improve and push my score maybe higher. As it airs the complexity of aromas reaches hypersonic overdrive. Just insane. What a wine. Easily will age 15 years but I imagine in 7-8 it’s really gonna peak. — 4 years ago

Andreas von Dreusche

9.0

Überraschung: 2016er echt gut in Form, leichter und leckerer Sommerwein. — 5 years ago

Carsten Rudolph

8.9

Weissburgunder — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Lovely nose despite deceitfully rich gold color. Pears, smoke, spice, apple skin. Lovely. Some wet stones as well. Palate is textured and ripe but with wonderful juiciness. Great acids and cleanliness. Sappy and pure. Really nice. Complex mineral and acid driven finish. — 6 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

I can't even explain this nose. So complex. Lavender, bath soaps, the best bath soaps ever. Sickness. Genius. One of the best noses ever. On any wine ever. Palate is dry and juicy. So clean, 12 alcohol. Sick minerals. This is a genius wine of the highest degree. — 8 years ago

Brent Mayeaux

Production Burn Cottage Vineyard

9.2

First Pinot Blanc from Germany and... Wow. Such pure and concentrated Pinot Blanc character. So pretty. — 8 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Love this wine. So clean. Apple, pear, skoche of wood. It’s a bit cold so the nose is not as expressive. Palate is ripe and juicy with amazingly clearly defined fruit. Very refined Lügle. Elegant and salty with lovely lime zest and framing sweet wood. Long. Needs to open and warm up. 9.3 for now. So round and so fresh. Lovely purity. Such a great wine. — 2 years ago

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.3

Bubbles. Agree with Lyle here. Tasting with Max Geitlinger and Peter Ziereisen. Very elegant awesome color nice bubbles. Strawberry driven. — 2 years ago

Peter C

9.4

@11 years still closed for over an hour before opening to a well balance wine. Nice! — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Gorgeous nose. No formal notes. Stunning. — 4 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.2

Nice fruit. Nicely balanced and mineral.

Bought from fass selections — 4 years ago

Pharis Willauer

10

Dry Farm Wine. Weingut ziereisen Blauer Spatburgunder 2014 “Tschuppen” — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Zero fruit on the nose. Mineral. Flinty. Lovely. But it will get more aromatic with age. Palate is filthy good. Amazing balance and presence with superb minerals and purity. So long. It’s just ridiculously great. — 5 years ago

Nicolas Owens

9.1

Ok, so like Michael said, there was this funky cheese whiff when we first opened it, but after some air (and a bottle of Ziereisen Lugle pinot blanc and conversation about pussy hat parades), this wine settled in as the perfect companion to our smitten kitchen one pan chicken tikka with potatoes and cauliflower. Nutty, mellow, nutmeg, and smooth tannins in a white whine ("orange wine" to be exact). Yum. Sad I only have the one more bottle... — 7 years ago

with Natascha and Anne

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.3

Blackberry nose. Relative dark seems lighter than the Köpfle. Less interesting wine compared to the Köpfle and closer in taste to the Ziereisen(s). Blackberry, tealeaves VERY good but not a standout in the top leagues from BADEN aka the Gran Crus from Enderle and Moll. — 8 years ago

with Lyle