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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 42 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Peech on 11/18/2022 & rated 92 points: ripe and mature now but still got the acidity. Pretty rounded on the palate upfront, but gets drier. (878 views) | | | Tasted by Peech on 5/24/2022 & rated 93 points: very big nose of petrol and polyurethane. Good ripeness on the palate but still got plenty of acidity, and actually still grippy on the finish. (1100 views) | | | Tasted by TNK on 10/23/2021 & rated 91 points: Fragile and delicate with a fine nose. Would not wait any longer. (1288 views) | | | Tasted by PatrickO33 on 10/7/2021 & rated 90 points: Apricot, honey, hints of petrol. Round, ripe and creamy. From demi. (1197 views) | | | Tasted by weezie on 11/11/2020 & rated 90 points: Agree with most of the recent notes. Nice but not particularly special, and definitely feels past it’s prime. (1700 views) | | | Tasted by 750 on 5/9/2020 & rated 90 points: Sweet (1472 views) | | | Tasted by WoodieBayArea on 3/10/2020 & rated 91 points: my second btl (of 2 total)... this was nice and essentially a repeat of the first... nice wine but a little past peak, glad to see the 'drink date' working on CellarTracker... my '01's and my '07's are showing those wines can last another decade or two but the '03 drink dates says it is at the end of its life -- with which I agree, would have been better 5 years ago, it was a hot vintage and the wine showed it, nice citrus and petrol but enough lift / tension / brightness for my taste (1465 views) | | | Tasted by hprphf on 10/18/2019 & rated 91 points: Acker 2019/10 (Bouley): Quite ripe with petro and yellow fruit. 91 (1979 views) | | | Tasted by It Hauls on 10/3/2019 & rated 93 points: Birthday lunch wine at jujube CH NC. Spot on with the menu and enjoyed it with friends that appreciated it. Acid, fruit and body were singing. Right time, right wine. (1507 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 6/17/2019 & rated 90 points: A lot of petrol in this vintage, of which Clos Ste. Hune usually only displays traces. Fat and unctuous and low in acidity, not surprisingly given the torrid vintage conditions. To drink ASAP since it may fall apart relatively early. Still, it’s flavorful and quite interesting. (1601 views) | | | Tasted by fredb on 5/8/2019: Medium gold color. Initially shy nose of lime and peach. Palate shows ripe peach and guava with some coaxing. After 30 minutes in glass, this starts to build a mineral bass note that amplifies the peach, adds in some floral notes and fills in some blanks. Continued to build through the two hours I sipped on it. This didn't disappoint. Left half bottle for second day. Drink or hold. (1371 views) | | | Tasted by C@ETV on 11/1/2018 & rated 90 points: Not lasting the distance. Soft and now lacking the typical acidity and structure of CSH. Round, powerful ripe fruit. Good depth; enjoyable. Good wine for the vintage, average enough (at this stage) for a CSH. (1449 views) | | | Tasted by Kemo Sabe on 6/1/2017 & rated 90 points: Warm vintage. Fruitier. Some petrol. Less acidity. Sweet flowers on the nose and a lot of petrol on the palate. Least favorite in the flight. Good to drink younger - doesnt have the acidity to age. (2615 views) | | | Tasted by cardsandwine on 4/6/2017: What a difference time in the cellar has made since my last bottle 6 years ago. PNP. This was glorious from the first sip and continued to evolve with each subsequent sip. Glorious ripe bouquet with a beautifully balanced viscous palate and lengthy finish. Proof once again that great wine makers make great wines even in bad vintages. (2591 views) | | | Tasted by Markus IWC on 3/18/2017 & rated 87 points: Clos Ste Hune vertical 83-09 with Anne Trimbach. Historic vineyard of only 1,67 ha in the village of Hunawihr in central Alsace. Limestone soil, cool southeast position with morning sun.
"HOTTEST" vintage, earliest harvest since 1560, records date back to 1180. Warm and dry summer with +40 temperatures, less acidity, different balance, this bottle a little tired.
Rich and mature nose, botrytis character. Still a dry mouthfeel with hints of sweetness. Drink now (766 views) | | | Tasted by WoodieBayArea on 12/5/2016 & rated 92 points: very nice bottle, I thought better on the pop and pour when I sensed slightly higher tension, acidity?, verve, but Tiffany said it had a petrol / funk finish (which she doesn't like), she in turn liked it more after an hour in decanter when she said it had just a hint of sweetness for balance... very nice wine but feels like it should be consumed near term, a little softer / rounder than I would like (2760 views) | | | Tasted by acyso on 7/28/2016 & rated 88 points: A swathe of European 2003s (Chicago, IL): A rather fat and large scaled expression of riesling. This is a powerful and muscular wine. The nose shows a fair bit of herbaceousness as well. On the palate, this wine is somehow sweet but without residual sugar. There's acidity, but the odd thing is that it isn't the driving force behind the wine (especially weird in riesling). The fruit profile here is quite tropical, with some pineapple notes. Perhaps more interesting than good, at least, to my palate. (4208 views) | | | Tasted by rossi.wine on 7/1/2014 & rated 93 points: Lots of concentration, ripe fruit, mineral. Round and rich, saline, just enough acidity, powerful. Really good length but lacking a bit of tension and lift. 92-94 (3836 views) | | | Tasted by Papies on 7/1/2014 & rated 93 points: Trimbach Clos Ste. Hune & Cuvee Frederic Emile Vertical with James Handford MW (Handford Wines, London): Decent golden hue on the colour front. Quite a bit of “petrolly” feel, ripe feel. Good acidity keeps the ripeness in check and this had the hallmarks of CstH, the big acidity yet very polished and elegant. Alive and sharp, complex and giving even at this young age. Maybe one of the few vintages to start drinking younger? Really a beautiful wine to drink now and very enjoyable. Not sure how this ages to be honest though. 92-93 now (5927 views) | | | Tasted by fredb on 4/12/2014: Medium gold color. Decanted off of bit of cork that fell in during removal. Rich aromas of lemon meringue, kerosene, and flowers. Palate has ripe lemon curd, sweet kerosene, cherry, lime candy, and stone elements that carry into a long finish. This has some viscosity to it and is ripe for a Hune. Drinking very well and in a pretty good place. Does it get profound with age? Maybe. Very enjoyable now, however. (3870 views) | | | Tasted by mjf@ulkner on 12/25/2013 & rated 93 points: Golden yellow, plentiful petrol aromas on the nose. While this wine is dry, there is a certain ripeness and plushness to this which isn't particularly characteristic, and likely reflects the vintage. Still elegant, and still special- easily my favorite riesling from Alsace. (3934 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 12/17/2013: Medium yellow. Combination of stone fruit and tangerine with an unusual component of vanilla and a bit of petrol. Positively glossy for Clos Ste. Hune, full bodied. Delicious pure fruit with some spice. Moderate acidity but typical finishing soil and minerality. Much more satisfying and successful than the last bottle, which I'm sure was off. All in all, quite an accomplishment for the vintage. Two out of three experiences with this were positive. (3742 views) | | | Tasted by beatles on 11/23/2013 & rated 93 points: The Gilded Man (Aalborg, Denmark): Impossible to identify as Clos St. Hune - the hot vintage materializes and put a considerable damper on the razor-like acid that tend to characterize this wine. I very good glass of Riesling ,though, and quite approachable for a Clos St. Hune. (1855 views) | | | Tasted by salil on 2/27/2013 & rated 89 points: Rather broad and fleshy for Hune, but it's very well balanced and lovely to drink now. A scent of petrol and smoke leads into a palate full of fresh pear and citrus fruits over a crystalline mineral base. The acidity's not particularly high here but the balance is very good, and I'd imagine this will keep aging quite nicely. (2955 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 7/22/2012: In the Name of Science (Heirloom Cafe, San Francisco): Medium yellow. Some mature Riesling aromas but tainted by mustiness that I was convinced represented low level TCA. The majority of tasters did not agree with this assessment though. Rich and a sense of ripe fruit and glyceral texture, but not nearly as pure and focused as the bottle I had last month. Very disappointing-is this the weirdness and bottle variation of 2003, or was this truly flawed? At any rate, not good. (4410 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (11/20/2018)
(Trimbach, Clos Ste Hune Riesling Alsace White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Julia Harding, MW
JancisRobinson.com (11/20/2018)
(Trimbach, Clos Ste Hune Riesling Alsace White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Ian D'Agata
Vinous, Vinous Table: Pierre Gagnaire, Paris, France (Sep 2018) (9/1/2018)
(Trimbach Riesling Clos Ste. Hune White) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Kapon
Vintage Tastings, Hong Kong Diaries (10/4/2009)
(Trimbach Riesling Clos Ste. Hune) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Nov/Dec 2008, Issue #18, Maison F. E. Trimbach Alsace’s Finest Traditionalist
(Riesling Clos Ste. Hune- Maison Trimbach) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (9/18/2008)
(Trimbach, Clos Ste Hune Riesling Alsace White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, November/December 2006, IWC Issue #129
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U.S. Importer for stat sheets, etc.Riesling Varietal character (Appellation America) | A short history of Riesling (Uncork) | Riesling (wikipedia)Clos Ste. HuneA note on the Terroir by James E. Wilson (1998, University of California Press, Berkeley). You may want to consult pp 94-100 for color figures making the geology easier to comprehend. A copy of this seminal book should be part of every serious wine amateur's library!
...The Upper and Middle Triassic strata contain dolomites [magnesium-calcium phosphates] interbedded anhydrite [anhydrous calcium sulfate] and gypsiferous clays [derived from calcium sulfate]. [comment -- soils derived from these minerals would be expected to have an acidic reaction]; the hard dolomites would help form the low hills of this terrain; They also contribute to the pebbly texture of the soil. The Lower Triassic is made up of sandstones and shales, with conglomerates and overall stratigraphic sequences, few classic caprock and slope landforms develop; rather the typical features are low, rounded hills. In addition to the alluvial fans, there are some Quaternary sheet washes of pebbles and sands from the Vosges mixed with the calcareous sandy/clay soils. ....the Ribeauville Fault Bundle opens up southward at St.-Hippolyte and continues [southward] to the Fecht fan delta at Colmar. The area contains a large numbe--more than a third--of the Grands Crus of Alsace. The detail of the geologic map [..... brings] out the patchwork nature of the faulting.
The cross-section of the sub-Vosgian Hills illustrates how the step faulting lowers successvely younger strata into place toward the Rhine fault. The fault blocks are between 100 and 150 acres (40-60 ha) in size. Coming through [like a] vivid patchwork, the dominant [.....] Triassic, [...] Jurassic, and [ ...] Oligocene [demonstrate] the sequence of the step-faulting.
Beginning with the tiny Kanzlerberg terroir at Bergheim, six Grands Crus are located in the [...] Triassic zone: Osterberg, Kirchberg, Geisberg, Rosacker, and Schoenenbourg, Clos-Ste.-Hune, andthough not a Grand Cru, is also on Triassic soils. [note--while Trimbach's Clos Ste.-Hune is not an AOC Alsace Grand Cru, there is little doubt that this wine could be so labelled if the Trinbachs chose to participate in the Grand Cru scheme.]jht
A write-up on this vineyard by Rare Wine Co's Manny Berk--ed. by jht
The Trimbach family’s tiny 3-acre Clos Ste. Hune .......... The Clos lies within the Rosacker grand cru. Yet, the Trimbachs label [the wines{ simply as Clos Ste. Hune, just as they have since 1919. They refer to neither Rosacker nor grand cru [..].
A Unique Terroir. Arguably the most perfect place in France to grow Riesling, Clos Ste. Hune stands apart from Alsace’s other top Riesling vineyards, which rely on steep slopes and heat-retaining granite or schist soil to bring their fruit to full ripeness. In contrast, Clos Ste. Hune’s 40-year-old vines are planted in cool, calcareous- clay soil with a gentle incline and a high percentage of limestone.
So, while other famous Alsace Rieslings can sometimes border on heaviness, Clos Ste. Hune balances its enveloping richness with an intense minerality, remarkable finesse and great structure. Thus, like a Raveneau grand cru Chablis, the more it ages, the more profound Clos Ste. Hune becomes.
One Master. Clos Ste. Hune has for more than two centuries [been made by] one of France’s greatest winemaking families. Staunch traditionalists, the Trimbachs reject their neighbors’ recent efforts to make sweeter, lusher wines. They continue to make Clos Ste. Hune as they did in the past: a cool, slow fermentation, a quick racking to remove the wine from the lees, no malolactic fermentation and a short period of aging in neutral wood foudre before bottling early to retain the fruit. The wine is then aged for an incredible five years in bottle before being released.
In [extremely exceptional] years, tiny amounts of Vendange Tardive are made, but they are different from other VT’s. They result not from botrytis but passerillage—dehydration caused by the sap returning to the vine's root system. They boast immense concentration and complexity, but only off-dry levels of residual sugar, as Trimbach vinifies them to be as dry as possible. Like other Clos Ste. Hunes, the VT’s are capable of immortality.
Unrivalled Consistency. But what makes Clos Ste. Hune most extraordinary is its consistency, having established a record of greatness over the last 86 years that is unequaled in Alsace. As Tom Stevenson writes in The Wines of Alsace, "I cannot think of any Alsace Riesling that could match its performance year-in, year-out over a span of, say, 40 vintages. It is the consistency of performance that establishes the greatness of a growth."
Even in average years like 1986, Clos Ste. Hune is stunningly aromatic, complex and capable of long development. Such a track record shows the advantage of this vineyard as a Trimbach monopole..... With only 500 to 600 cases made, and demand far exceeding supply, even current vintages of Clos Ste. Hune can be excruciatingly difficult to find. As for older vintages, these can be impossible [to find].
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comAlsace Vins d'Alsace (Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins d'Alsace)
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