Dark toast and burnt sugar notes add a caramel-like warmth to the tart black-cherry, green leaf and violet petal notes on this understated Pinot Noir. It’s lean in style, with savory dried-herb and granite hints, with soft, wispy tannins that add structure on the midpalate. — (2/1/2013) —89

The biggest difference between Huber’s R bottlings and this Alte Reben (old vine) Pinot Noir is the crispness of this wine’s acids. It still shows the complexity Huber builds in: an herbal tinge to the cherry fruit, hints of mushroom and coffee, it just comes across as a bit sharper and edgier. Drink now–2015. ——J.C.(6/1/2011)—— 87

Huber’s “entry-level” Pinot Noir features plum and black cherry fruit, but also some distractingly vegetal overtones of cabbage and charred beets. There’s plenty of body, but then it turns extremely crisp on the finish.——J.C.(3/1/2009)—— 84