New life breathed into an old monastic estate, with Willi Bründlmayer as consultant. The wines are excellent VALUES while Moosbrugger consolidates his reputation. They won’t always be so. The 2001s are soaring above their class, and Moosbrugger has ARRIVED. It’s beginning to look like Martin Nigl is Moosbrugger’s aesthetic soul-brother, though Michi’s wines are just a little more fluid in texture. But they’re both diligently precise in their detailing of flavor; they both speak flavor with careful diction. Though Michi’s “big” wines were especially (delightfully!) successful in 2001, his special genius seems to lie in the making of very pretty fine-grained wines at the “low” end of his range—no small gift. Occasionally his bigger wines remind me of being pulled around by a large hyper dog; you wonder who’s in charge of the proceedings. Power is untamed, and runs away. Most 2001s avoided this. And some of the wines offered below are some of the finest in all this offering.
