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ALSACE Wines

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Wines - Listed by DOMAINE

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Wine
Where available, tasting scores and notes are by Robert Parker (RP) and taken from his website www.erobertparker.com 
or Stephen Tanzer (
ST) from www.wineaccess.com,
Year
Price per
Bottle
including
VAT
Tasting
Score/Notes
Best Drinking
         
    ALSACE      
    DOMAINE
SCHAEFFER-WOERLY
A real down to earth, no nonsense, friendly Alsatian wine domaine.
A joy to visit and they make great wines at very affordable prices too!
2002 was a great vintage at this domaine.
   
 
12
75cl
Riesling 'Breitstein'
Schaefer-Woerly
2002 £10.00 Nearly GC quality; wonderful structure and fruit. Will only get better with cellaring.
5
75cl
Riesling
Frankstein GC
Schaefer-Woerly
2002 £12.00 Top quality wine with great finesse and flavour. Will keep till 2015 and beyond!
6
75cl
Gewurztraminer
Vieilles Vignes
Schaefer-Woerly
2002 £11.00 Excellent spicy wine, without being too sweet.
Great with spicy foods.
           
    DOMAINE
WEINBACH-FALLER
This is one of the top estates, making wonderful wines with great depth and substance.
    Highly Recommended
8
75cl
Pinot Blanc
Reserve
Weinbach-Faller

ST -
Aromas of orange zest, flowers and honey. Fat in the mouth, with a slight botrytis-induced viscosity balanced by firm acidity. Offers good palate presence and finishes with firm grip.
2002 £10.00 ST 87
Now - 2014
A good 'drinker'.
Ready now, but will improve.
           
    DOMAINE
ZIND HUMBRECHT
This estate is considered to be one of the best in France by Robert Parker. The wines here are very pure and profound, and will repay the purchaser with cellaring - as they will only improve with age!
    Organic Wines: Taste the DIFFERENCE! 
59
75cl
Riesling
Brand
Zind Humbrecht

RP -
The Zind-Humbrecht 2007 Riesling Brand – from the densely granitic Steinglitz portion of this cru – smells gorgeously of iris, lily-of-the-valley, linden, white peach, and grapefruit. Plush and tenderly palate-saturating, dry-tasting at 10 grams residual sugar, its hints of tart and bitter red currant, grapefruit rind, peach pit, hazelnut, and sage offer dynamic counterpoint with its generosity of fruit and texture, persisting with uncanny tenacity, clarity, lift, and energy as well as mysteriously marine minerality and scallop-like sweet-saline savour.
2007 £39.00 RP95
2010-25
93
75cl
Riesling
Brand Vieilles Vignes
Zind Humbrecht

RP -
The Humbrecht’s 2007 Riesling Brand Vieilles Vignes (tasted from cask) was picked already September 16 in the Schneckelsburg (or Schneckenburg), just above the Clos Jebsal, and allowed to stop fermenting at 13% alcohol and a supportive but barely noticeable 20 grams of residual sugar. A stunning, haunting nose of rowan, linden, iris, liquorice, resin, white peach, and sea breeze foreshadows the elusive complexities of a palate combining sumptuous richness and subtle oiliness with lift and refreshment. This finishes almost torrentially, with salt, iodine, and peat staining its waves of fruit and nut oils, while floral perfume billows persistently overhead.
2007 £44.00 RP97
2011-32
84
75cl
Riesling
Clos Windsbuhl
Zind Humbrecht

Wine Spectator -
Crackling acidity frames this dry white, but finds balance with rich, mineral-tinged notes of fleur de sel, lemon peel, brine and a hint of forest floor. This would pair beautifully with seafood, and the smoky finish recommends it to fish on the grill.
2007 £37.00 WS92
2011-25
6
75cl
Riesling
Herrenweg
Zind Humbrecht

RP -
Crisp apples are intermingled with smoky botrytis scents in the nose of the 2000 Riesling Herrenweg de Turckheim. A broad, pulp-laden, medium-bodied wine, it bastes the palate with loads of juicy pears, chamomile, linden, and minerals. Concentrated and powerful, it also possesses an exceptionally long, pure finish. Projected maturity: 2004-2012.
 
Olivier Humbrecht describes 2000 as "a year of excellent ripeness where the key to success was sorting out the bad rot prior to harvesting."
2000 £32.00 RP92
Now - 2017

BIN END PRICE

24
75cl
Pinot Gris
Clos Windsbuhl
Zind Humbrecht

RP -
The Zind-Humbrecht 2007 Pinot Gris Clos Windsbuhl is another exercise in extremity, not only on account of its harbouring 15.3% alcohol – at 9 grams residual sugar – but for having taken longer than the vintage’s V.T.s or S.G.N.s to ferment. Smoky black tea, peat, and grilled peach on the nose follow on a voluminous, oily palate, along with saline, chalky notes surprising in a wine this overwhelmingly ripe, and helping to convey some counterpoint in a finish that – almost miraculously – is (for now at least) heat-free. Like the corresponding Rangen, this is difficult to describe and completely unique in my experience.
2007 £32.00 RP91
2010-28
22
75cl
Gewürztraminer
Clos Windsbuhl
Zind Humbrecht

RP -
Mango, musk melon, litchi, jasmine, black tea, and ginger on the nose of the Zind-Humbrecht 2007 Gewurztraminer Clos Windsbuhl join with honey, lime, and marzipan on a creamy, buoyant palate for an effect confectionary and yet somehow refreshing. Cashew brittle, candied ginger and lime zest along with liquid floral perfume dominate the soothing, buoyant, almost endlessly enticing finish. This benefits from some of the highest acidity of any of the Zind-Humbrecht 2007s, even though one doesn’t taste that as such. You can lock this away for 20 years if you wish, but it is still going to have sweetness to spare, I suspect, so why not savour it all along, even if that means unaccompanied?
2007 £37.00 RP93
2011-32
17
75cl
Gewürztraminer
Clos Windsbuhl
Zind Humbrecht

RP -
.....the warmth of September proved to have been sufficient for an outstanding 2004 Gewurztraminer Clos Windsbuhl. Mint, honey, caramelized celery root in the nose segue into a palate of creamy richness, considerable delicacy, and only subtle sweetness (from 14.5 grams residual sugar), dominated by alkaline, saline, marine, iodine-inflected mineral elements. This is the most remarkably juicy, refreshing, and indeed delicate of the lot of Humbrecht ’04 Gewurztraminer, and its finish is among the most perfumed, lip-smacking in fruit yet also most thought-provoking in its mysterious mineral and animal aspects of any of Humbrecht’s 2004s.
2004 £29.00 RP94
2011-28
             
 

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