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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.2 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 12/3/2022 & rated 95 points: Seventeenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Hughes House - Chicago IL): In 83/94/95 vertical. This was the lightest color of the flight! Aromatically alluring with dried apricot, baked apple and and honeycomb hints without any sense of anything sweet. Everything follows through on the palate with very good weight and persistence. (1957 views) | | | Tasted by Peech on 11/27/2021 & rated 95 points: first pour 15 minutes after opening. Soft on the palate and slightly bitter. An hour after opening this was much more flinty and steely, with polyurethane... and starting to cross over to German riesling territory. (370 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 1/25/2020 & rated 97 points: A truly brilliant wine and a great testimony to the age ability of Riesling. Far from the light and austere profile of young Clos Ste. Hune, this aged one is medium gold, thick and viscous and aromatically developed and deep on the palate. Enormously complex. As always, the smell and taste of Hune is difficult to describe but has an element of roasted peach or pear. Held up extremely well in the glass over hours. With a bit more acidity this would be nearly perfect. (2420 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 12/7/2019 & rated 96 points: Fifteenth Annual White Truffle Dinner (Lake Bluff, IL): In 83/86/01 vertical. Savory and sweet at the same time with complex spiced notes throughout. Ultra concentration and shocking freshness for its age, I would have thought this a decade younger. (3477 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 12/7/2019 & rated 97 points: White Truffle Dinner: 83/86/01. A haunting nose that is so intense with a complex mix of sweet white fruit and savory elements. The palate is similarly stunning -- fully mature fruit that is layered with smoke and toasted herbs. Wow, so complex. Possibly the best Riesling that I've ever had. (2627 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 4/25/2019 & rated 91 points: What’s wonderful about Clos Ste. Hune is that it seems to be immune to oxidation, no matter how old it gets and how dark the color becomes. This bottle is medium dark gold but still fresh and full of interest. Very little petrol and it doesn’t detract at all. Even more complex that the ‘90, but slightly less successful because there is a shallow hole in the mid palate before the long finish. Perhaps some bottle variation at this age but many in the large group chose it as their favorite. (2229 views) | | | Tasted by MAOC on 3/9/2019 & rated 98 points: A near perfect and mature example of this wine - lime and other citrus fruit, smoke, mineral, mint, honeyed edge, savoury notes - combined intensity and levity very effectively. Did not last for long.... ***** (1752 views) | | | Tasted by Kemo Sabe on 6/1/2017 & rated 92 points: Nice amount of acidity left in the wine. Lemon, Peach and some minor sea shell and ocean. Highly nuanced and secondary at this stage. (2158 views) | | | Tasted by Markus IWC on 3/18/2017 & rated 97 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.
"FIRST" vintage of Anne's father. Parker favorite.
Smooky, eucalyptus, mint. Fascinating wine, again full of life and energy, fresh acidity. Astonishing!!! (936 views) | | | Tasted by dcwino on 11/5/2015 & rated 92 points: 2015 Villa d’Este Wine Symposium - Kelly and Kevin's excellent adventure; 11/3/2015-11/9/2015 (Villa D’este, Lake Como): Very youthful color. Contrast to the color, deeply toned yellow pit fruit, smoke, mint, coriander and mineral. Slightly lacking acidity, and medium finish. Slightly lighter style. (5034 views) | | | Tasted by Rupert on 7/2/2013: Small fine wine lunch (The Ledbury, London): Petrol, high toned, oily but fresh, fine, pure, essence of riesling, still youthful. (4809 views) | | | Tasted by BradKNYC on 10/15/2011: Cooking for the Kesslers (and drinking some great wine with them, too!) (My place.): A little reticent at first and showing just a lime and mineral character, it really filled in and blossomed with air and took on a more tropical personality with guava and mango notes backed up by lime and mineral. Rich and mouthfilling, but with dazzling structure, it's like Catherine Deneuve in the '80's, mature, confident, classy and oh so sexy. Just wonderful with the spice rubbed rack of pork. A. (6068 views) | | | Tasted by salil on 1/20/2011 & rated 95 points: Stunning aromatics; a really incredible scent here combining all sorts of honeyed, smoky, earthy and herbal flavour elements with mature apple and citrus fruits. Initially it seems a little frail and soft in the mouth, not showing the same complexity as the aromatics offer but with time it gains weight and depth as the flavours freshen up and combine into a really complex, seamless whole that carries itself with incredible finesse and balance. (5668 views) | | | Tasted by FraParisNYC on 10/17/2010 & rated 100 points: Unforgettable! The nose announces a great wine with notes of citrus fruits and apples. Then the palate surprises with an incredible smokey note, plus minerality, earthiness, herbs and grassy hints. It lingered a long time on the palate, with elegance and superb balance. It was still fresh, and I believe the remaining acidity will continue to help it age. I selected a drink latest date of 2015, but I think it can be appreciated way beyond for what it will offer. (5052 views) | | | Tasted by Rupert on 6/17/2009: Eclectic wine dinner at The Ledbury (The Ledbury, London): Following the Leflaive BBM didn't do justice to this, which was so different. Where the BBM was explosive, this was still, pure, penetrating, steely and poised. A wonderful wine for contemplating. (4860 views) | | | Tasted by La Grappe on 3/13/2009 & rated 92 points: Fairly deep yellow colour; full, rich, riesling nose, with a hint of lime; quite fat and round on the palate; fully mature and perhaps just losing some of its acidic edge. Not as lively as a few years ago, but still excellent. (2811 views) | | | Tasted by Rupert on 7/14/2006 flawed bottle: Blind tasting of vintage pairs (Alba Restaurant, London): corked (4095 views) | | | Tasted by JeffGMorris on 6/21/2003: Minerally, oily, penetrating old Riesling. Old, but not tired. Very complex. (3293 views) |
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Vinous, Trimbach: Riesling Clos Ste. Hune 1966-2010 (Oct 2016) (10/1/2016)
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Vinous, Mar-12, IWC Issue #10200 (3/1/2012)
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View From the Cellar, Nov/Dec 2008, Issue #18, Maison F. E. Trimbach Alsace’s Finest Traditionalist
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View From the Cellar, Nov/Dec 2008, Issue #18, Maison F. E. Trimbach Alsace’s Finest Traditionalist
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View From the Cellar, Bonus Articles, The House of Trimbach (Originally May 1998, updated December 2003)
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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."
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