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bacchus of knockholt Likes this wine:

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - Tasting notes to follow but important note first is if you bought this wine thinking it's dry, it's not. This wine was sold to me as a dry wine according to the merchant (Majestic) where, they said, it is only 2 from 9 on the sweetness Richter scale; basically dry. When I tasted the wine, it was sweet! Along with many Alsace producers Zind-Humbrecht now use an indices scale from 1, dry, to 5 sweet and this wine is labelled by the producer as 5, aka sweet! Once I got over the initial surprise of how sweet this was I then recalibrated what I thought of it and liked it a lot. Flowery nose, peach and sweet lychee too. The palate taste is sweet, quite full bodied, spicy, rich, great flavours of lychee, Turkish delight, rose petal. A lovely wine once you know what you're getting! Top tip, check the the indices on the label, it's under the abv but in tiny text.

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