2003 Zind-Humbrecht Pinot Gris Heimbourg

Community Tasting Notes (9) Median Score: 89 points

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  12/27/2016 - bino Likes this wine: 93 Points

  dark roze colour, nose of apricots, tangerine, sour apples, flowers, lychees. Taste very different from smell: dry/high acidity. high alcohol, slightly oxidized. Despite its high age, this wine continues to amaze, possibly also due to the 1.5l size. With regret I finished the last bottle with friends. Only real downside is its high alcohol level (16%) but an amazing wine

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  6/19/2011 - bino wrote: 92 Points

  Colour: bright orange
  Nose: abricots, citrus, lychees, red fruit, berries, reminiscent of good rose champagne
  High in acids, as well as in alcohol; a bit too much of latter, especially noticeable when temperature rose
  Long finish
  Very impressive wine, highly unusual and outstanding match with poulty/fish with citrus sauce
  Drinkable during at least next 3 years

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  8/15/2010 - vinojones wrote: 79 Points

  Copper/Gold color; cantaloupe, lychee nose; mild apricot, tangerine flavors, thin mid palate not the typical weight of Z-H wines; watery, low acid finish, flabby.
  Not a spoiled wine but nothing left to lose... poor vintage &/or poor winemaking

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  9/26/2009 - mukden wrote: flawed

  DOA NO BUY. The drinkability report was screaming at me to finish this lad and I should have listened. When I opened it up, the deep, dark apple juice colour, confirmed my worst fears. There was some acidity left (of course, because it was apple vinegar !) but the taste was awful. Well and truly dead. Thing is, my local wine shop, still has a shelf of this stuff left? I will return it to them for safe keeping. Perhaps as we speak, a sucker is being born who will buy it.

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  9/21/2007 - otisabdul wrote: 88 Points

  Tasted from 375ml bottle at Gabriel's in Highwood. Dark amber color. Floral, marzipan and lychee notes, with a bit too much heat on the finish. Paired well with butternut squash torellini, however.

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