1997 Zind-Humbrecht Tokay Pinot Gris Clos Jebsal Sélection de Grains Nobles

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  4/6/2024 - GilmoroDelToro Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Dark amber in color. Smell of lychee and apricot. Rich and complex in taste. Sweetness is there, but kind of a background thing. Thick but not syrupy. More tropical and stone fruits, with some toffee and spice (ginger) and a tea-like note - some woody tannin or bitter almond lurking. Citrus, especially orange. More like orange peel - a bit of pith - but orange peels that have been cooked down in syrup or in a marmalade. And served on toast.

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  8/10/2016 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This needs some solo work. After a night of great wines and foods, I needed a more appropriate dessert, but now sipping it on day 2, this has the acidity, but not as much as other Clos Jebsal SGN or TS wines. A plethora of apricot, peach and many spices combined with the caramels, and butterscotch. It has a higher ABV than many of the other Clos Jebsal SGN but with air things start to get much better. day 2 is much better and shows it elegance and doesn't even mess with any of the aromas and flavors.
  
  Its excellent, but just below the 95+ level I have come to expect from other ZD PG based SGN. Still these are always a treat. I should have picked the butterscotch creme brûlée.

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  6/18/2015 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points

  TN: Rhone dinner (The Grill Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown): Incredibly intense nose displaying ripe yellow pit fruits, peach, orange marmalade, tangerine, white flowers, spicy spices and honey. Incredible concentration, oily and dense yet quite precise and airy which reminds me Yquem, bright acidity, strong presence of mineral and incredibly long finish. Great wine.

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  9/21/2014 - dcwino wrote: 95 Points

  Another lazy Sunday gathering with 95 Latour, 98 Rayas, 90 BDL, 11 the stone terrace and etc. (Table Restaurant - Washington D.C.): It is interesting and assuring when your TN is almost identical to the previous one. Apricot, orange marmalade, smoke, tea and ginger. Exceptional concentration, bright acidity and long finish. Not as polished as a great Sauternes but great fruit intensity. Very enjoyable. Once again, I prefer SGNs young.

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  6/10/2012 - dcwino wrote: 95 Points

  Chateau Margaux vertical dinner with great whites and 2007 Rayas (Ruth Chris Tysons Corner, VA): Ginger, smoke, perfectly ripe yellow peach, mango and crème brulee. Still fresh with unctuous palate. Perhaps decanting will help as it seems a bit tight. I seem to prefer my icewine and SGN relatively young with fresh pear and white peach fruits.

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