1994 Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Clos Häuserer

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  4/9/2019 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Dinner at MingHin (Chicago, IL): A heady and thick riesling, but with enough sweetness to balance out the more structural elements. Shows a fair bit of earthiness and a mild barnyard note, but they're not off-putting. To be sure, this is made in a very voluptuous style, and there isn't much overall cut here. I'd be up for a glass once in a while, but it's hardly the stuff I want to drink a bottle of.

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  10/6/2017 - RKatzDO Likes this wine:

  Absolutely perfect. More German than Austrian in style. Wonderful level of fruit with a crisp but lasting finish. Not going anywhere if you have more!

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  4/5/2017 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  The Rotating Dinners, I.8: Alsace (Chicago, IL): Interesting, to lead with (what would become) my wine of the night. This was perhaps the most Mosel-like of all the wines (and probably the reason it was my favourite). This has tons of sweet apricots on the huge nose, as well as a faint whiff of reduction. The palate has the density and richness of a fairly ripe Auslese, but with perhaps a third the sensation of sweetness. A fair amount of acidity balances this.

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  1/19/2017 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  January birthday craziness (Chicago, IL): Maybe there is something to this thing known as dry riesling after all... I found this bottle quite good indeed. Yes, there's some opulent fruit here, and the palate shows almost sweet from all the fruitiness. Impeccably balanced though, and the alcohol doesn't even poke through at all. I love the tropical yellow fruits here.

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  10/16/2015 - salil wrote: 92 Points

  What a fantastic bottle. A touch austere on first pour, showing slightly bitter quinine, citrus peel, and stony notes, but with air and time the fruit and other flavours emerge. A couple of hours later, there's plenty of bright fruit at the core, along with all sorts of other saline and stony mineral notes and more savoury earthy and burnished flavours. It's bone dry but never comes across austere, and also feels much lighter than most of the modern Zind wines I've had (only 12% alcohol!) I wish ZH was making more wines like this these days.

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