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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.8 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by viniferatu on 5/16/2021: From a Jeroboam: Oxidative and nutty. Moss and fishtank notes. Golden fruits. Petrichor. Beautiful smoky mushrooms and nuts. V nice. Maybe past its prime, but this opened up with time in the glass. (1452 views) | | | Tasted by C@ETV on 1/3/2020 & rated 94 points: I would never guess this is 26 yrs old - still has everything: honey, peach, dancing acidity and long finish. And all in balance. The last note says it well, “delightful’. Ethereal (1585 views) | | | Tasted by cadamson on 7/7/2018 & rated 92 points: Deep golden yellow. Honey-ish texture, tiny bit of oxidation. Just delightful on the palate. Good acidity, some peach and apricot flavors, but all about superb 25 year old balance. (2083 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 4/24/2018: Magnum Dinner for the Ages (and Aged)-Ponsot, Chave... (La Tour d'Argent, Paris): Magnum. Full yellow, slightly deeper than the Champagne. Secondary Riesling perfume, vegetal notes, and more peach with air. A lighter, more delicate Clos Ste. Hune that is not as fiercely acidic or focused as some, but the trade off was a wonderful, gentle, mellow roundness which made it a great match with a rich quenelle dish. Not an all time great, but for god's sake, a ridiculously good showing for a 25 year old dry white wine. (2601 views) | | | Tasted by Papies on 8/6/2016 & rated 93 points: Needs a good 30 minutes post open to get its stride and develop . Would not suggest decanting but just let it breath a bit.
Very much a Riesling, light caramel notes, light petrolly, good fruit core. Firm core of polished acidity, elegant and vibrant still, layered and a class act. Gives a feeling at times it has residual sugar but really it's just the evolution of it we think. 93 (3289 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 4/24/2013 & rated 93 points: Mad for Magnums (Ai Fiori - New York NY): From magnum. Slightly tropical fruit aromas with lots of petrol character and a bit of lychee. Lush, ripe, forward and powerful on palate with a huge spice element start-to-finish. Definitely shorter and less interesting when revisited 4 hours later at the conclusion of dinner. (4762 views) | | | Tasted by j45 on 1/2/2010: A point and beautiful as only Clos Ste.-Hune can be. (4569 views) |
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View From the Cellar, Sep/Oct 2018, Issue #77, Recently-Tasted Alsace Wines
(Riesling “Clos Ste. Hune”- Maison Trimbach (served from magnum)) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (3/7/2018)
(Trimbach, Clos Ste Hune Riesling Alsace White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (8/7/2012)
(Trimbach, Clos Ste Hune Riesling Alsace White) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Kapon
Vintage Tastings, Epic European Vacation (9/6/2011)
(Trimbach Riesling Clos Ste. Hune) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Nov/Dec 2008, Issue #18, Maison F. E. Trimbach Alsace’s Finest Traditionalist
(Riesling Clos Ste. Hune- Maison Trimbach) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Kapon
Vintage Tastings, Clos Ste. Hune Vertical at Tse Yang, Dinner in Vegas and a 2002 Blind Aussie Recap (11/7/2005)
(Trimbach Riesling Clos Ste. Hune) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Bonus Articles, The House of Trimbach (Originally May 1998, updated December 2003)
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Rockss and Fruit (5/21/2005)
(Clos St. Hune) Ethereal aromas of minerals. Just tons of complex minerals and a soft citrusy palate with great concentration. Kept getting better as it aerated. The softest Hune I have ever had. Seemed mature but in now way of going downhill anytime soon. |
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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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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
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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