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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by chatters on 11/21/2023: Vintage and Vine Grand Cru Riesling tasting (Bentley Bar & Restaurant, Sydney): From magnum. Medium minus intensity aromas of earth and little else; quite a closed nose. Palate rich but a little clumsy after the Geisberg. Perhaps this bottle is slightly out of condition? Meh. (1215 views) | | Tasted by Lord of the Bottles on 7/30/2023 & rated 95 points: This is supposed to be one of the best dry rieslings in the world and it did not disappoint. Tropical, floral nose and attack on the palate with a super long finish of pineapple and minerals. This seemed a little tight and would be better in several more years. 95/100 for now? (1254 views) | | Tasted by Johnny from Spotify on 7/11/2023 & rated 96 points: An electric Wine! At first, it bursts of yellow stone fruit, mature apricot and kumquat, lime, bergamot and Meyer lemons, cest and pith. Then an intriguing smokeyness with some petrol. Very layered and complex, powerful and long length. High acidity, integrated high alcohol. Of course, this is way too young to drink now, hold for decades. I am glad I have more of the 15’ in my cellar! (1012 views) | | Tasted by Papies on 6/30/2023 & rated 92 points: A very atypical in our view CSH and in a way what we would have expected from a 2003. 14.5% alc , rich and with a very open nose. Lacked the precision and the focus we so much expected and felt like the lost control of the ripeness here. A pretty wine for sure and very much enjoyable but not of the level we excepted. 92 out of respect (1355 views) | | Tasted by dcwino on 4/6/2023 & rated 97 points: Wine gathering at RJ's; 4/4/2023-4/7/2023 (South Carolina): Intense golden color. Expressive nose displaying sweet yellow fruit with a hint of white, yellow and white peaches, lemon curd, apple, candied ginger, saline, light caramel, pine needle, honey, sweet and spicy spices and crushed rocks. Excellent concentration, layers upon layers of succulent sweet yellow fruit, dense and rich yet also perfectly precise and detailed, bright acidity, strong mineral, and a long concentrated yellow fruit driven finish with limestone and flower at the end. While the concentrated fruit hints at sweetness, the finish is bone dry. (2246 views) |
| By James Suckling JamesSuckling.com (6/20/2017) (Trimbach Riesling Alsace Clos Ste. Hune, White, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Ian D'Agata Vinous, Alsace: The 2015s and Late-Released 2014s (Mar 2017) (3/1/2017) (Trimbach Riesling Clos Saint Hune) Subscribe to see review text. | NOTE: Scores and reviews are the property of JamesSuckling.com and Vinous. (manage subscription channels) |
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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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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." 2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comAlsace Vins d'Alsace (Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins d'Alsace)
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