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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.8 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 77 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by acyso on 4/2/2024: "There's a lot of fish at Montrose Harbor" (Chicago, IL): Not entirely convinced this was a totally sound bottle. There were some dirty notes that were TCA-adjacent for quite a while, and I lost track of this and missed coming back to it later in the evening. It's quite broad and oily and shows some apricot jam notes. Not at the level of my previous bottle seven years ago. (618 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 3/16/2024: Back in January 2024 I opened the bottle of 1999 Clos Ste. Hune that I had bought on release and cellared with care for 20+ years. It was completely oxidized. Yes 20 years is a long time, but Clos Ste. Hune is capable of extremely long aging. Anne Trimbach reached out to me and offered to replace the bottle. We had a pleasant back and forth regarding the potential causes of poor showings of late-1990s Trimbach wines, and we agreed that lack of care by the importer or distributor could have been a contributing factor. My few bottles of 1998 Trimbach, purchased in France, have to date been perfect.
In mid-February the replacement arrived, triple boxed and swaddled in bubble wrap. I put it in the cellar for a few weeks of rest, until an obvious opportunity to open it arrived with a dinner alongside long and new friends at southern New Jersey restaurant Two Fish. The wine did not disappoint.
Not surprisingly for a middling vintage, this Hune is mature, but the bottles showed zero traces of oxidation, and floated alongside the excellent food, lifting the heavier courses, and singing harmony to the lighter ones. Seashell, lemon zest, and a compelling smoky note, more harmonious than could be termed petrol, infused the aromatics, and echoed on the palate, lingering longer than I had the patience to calculate. The next sip called, and there were also other wines.
The cause of the premature oxidation in the prior bottle is hard to know, but Anne’s effort to show the true quality of 1999 Clos Ste. Hune certainly paid off. (577 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 1/27/2024 flawed bottle: 100% oxidized. (789 views) | | | Tasted by salil on 1/27/2024 flawed bottle: Rieslingfan visits Albany; 1/26/2024-1/27/2024 (Châteauneuf-du-Salil, Albany): Oxidized. (757 views) | | | Tasted by overkloud on 12/24/2023 & rated 90 points: A little too advanced than I'd expected. a lot of nut and toasty notes even though the acidity is still there with some mineral notes. (529 views) | | | Tasted by hprphf on 12/22/2023 & rated 91 points: Quite a lot of petro, rich oily yellow fruit. Weird how dry it is on the palate with the anticipation of aged sweet Riesling flavors. 91-92 (526 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 11/9/2023 & rated 95 points: An exceptional Riesling. So much dense, grand cru concentration while remaining round and seamless. Fruit is still very youthful and exuberant. Very early peak drinking. (729 views) | | | Tasted by MJReb on 10/15/2023 flawed bottle: Chez Zim: petrol, lemon, dense, slightly oxidized. (549 views) | | | Tasted by fclarity on 8/13/2023 & rated 94 points: This wine had a deep yellow center with clear rims. It displayed a medium+ intensity nose of white flowers, petroleum jelly, and minerals.
In the mouth, this wine was rich and ripe with great balance, solid acidity, and very good length.
This wine still seemed a bit young and I would expect it to continue to improve with 5 years or so in the cellar. (639 views) | | | Tasted by Orange Tsian on 7/8/2023 & rated 95 points: 闻起来有着相当的成熟度，扩张感强，细腻柔和，菠萝干、桃杏果脯、苹果馅、干花、阿胶枣，还有类似当归之类的木本药草，香气复杂有层次，整合得已经很好。入口有着颇大的结构，集中度颇高，整体饱满成熟，浓郁感将口腔撑开，酸度整合其中，默默发挥作用，有力而有温柔。果味成熟，有着菠萝酱、熟桃杏、苹果、热带果干之类的味道，整体干净，中段收敛紧致，后段也有木质、草本、蜂蜜和淡淡的焦糖味，通体流畅舒展，温柔丰腴。95/100 (691 views) | | | Tasted by Marc on 3/27/2023 & rated 91 points: My 60th (Abbot Street, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand): Deep golden hue. Mineral and lime peel nose with a lot of kerosine notes. The palate is clearly in late maturity, but the fruit is still hanging in there! The richness of the bottle age was attractive, while the acid structure really added definition and came alive with a stunning dish of salmon with a wasabi mayonnaise. The wine appears to have peaked - probably around five years a ago, but it was a total privilege to drink the wine at this late stage, especially when it is still very much alive and expressing the 24 years of cellaring so brilliantly. (823 views) | | | Tasted by BLam on 6/17/2022 & rated 92 points: Surprising still very young and fresh wine to be served right from the bottle. A wine with lovely acidity, good nose and long aftertaste. (1127 views) | | | Tasted by ricknat1 on 4/3/2021 & rated 92 points: CSH lovely and unique. as usual (2139 views) | | | Tasted by jnewman77 on 7/30/2020: Weekend Chez K's; 7/30/2020-8/1/2020: First bottle of Clos St Hune; the nose was excellent; baked apple, ginger, petrol, floral hints, mineral, candied lemon peel. The palate started feeling a little thin and bitter, maybe a bad pairing (Thai yellow curry); slowly opened and revealed riper stone fruits and developed better depth. Good, but not great. (2447 views) | | | Tasted by Brian of Mull on 7/17/2020 & rated 94 points: On the nose: apple, spices, honeysuckle , apricot and petrol. On the palate: lime , apricot , honey and pineapple. Lovely density. This is very good. I have been saving it. Today is 95 outside and needed something special to go with Asian Fusion take out. It’s working well. My only bottle. One of the worlds great white wines IMO. (2206 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 3/15/2020: The Last Supper (Before the Covid-19 Shutdown) (El Ideas): Love the gorgeous nose -- layered baked apple, exotic spice and creme brûlée. The palate is however a bit lean and flat, showing tired. 93 point nose. 85 point palate. (2651 views) | | | Tasted by KenK on 3/15/2020 & rated 93 points: El ideas before the COVID19 hard shutdown
Classic CSH, aromas of waxy petrol with a nice oily dense mouthfeel showing lots of depth and rock bed mineral. Long and pure. In a very nice place. (2142 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 3/15/2020: Last Wine Dinner Before the Coronavirus Shutdown (EL Ideas - Chicago IL): Darker color than expected, more advanced aromas as well. Started out with bright enough flavors, but they quickly faded as well. More mature than we would like. (2497 views) | | | Tasted by Burgnick on 5/27/2019 & rated 92 points: Petrol, apricot, tropical sensation and minerals. Good balance between fruit and acidity. Medium weight. Enjoyed it a lot. (1906 views) | | | Tasted by drwine2001 on 5/18/2019: Medium yellow. Subtle aromas of stone fruit and a whiff of petrol. Medium weight, certainly not the most dense Clos Ste. Hune in my experience. Fresh as can be, marvelous complexity and cut. It really benefited from being in a decanter, fanning out and showing more herbal complexity over several hours. A wonderful bottle, particularly since the vintage is probably underrated and I had not realized that I still had this in the cellar. Should easily last until its 25th birthday anyway. (1970 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 4/25/2019 & rated 87 points: Darker than all the younger and all the older wines in the series despite perfect storage. Too delicate and diffuse. Not a success at age twenty. (1546 views) | | | Tasted by ricknat1 on 4/1/2019 & rated 93 points: Very mature in a beautiful way. Giant nose tinged by gasoline with deep, rich flavors. A pleasure and fully resolved. Drinking perfectly (1667 views) | | | Tasted by hprphf on 12/22/2018 & rated 92 points: Tropical fruit, apricot, petro, stone, good florals. Acidic but good balance. 92 (1644 views) | | | Tasted by Hampe on 9/22/2018 & rated 92 points: Gyllene färg. Mogen blommig doft med inslag av honun, blommor, petroleum och mineral. Medelfylligt med frisk syra. Blommig smakkaraktär med inslag av honung och te. Lång eftersmak. (1640 views) | | | Tasted by Machiavelli on 6/2/2018: Dinner at Alo. From memory. Sensational out of the gate. Lime, honey, honeydew, rocks bubble out of the glass. The palate was full, mineral, high acid, pulled together with the intensity of flavour, and a long finish. This was great to smell and taste all night. My first Clos Ste Hune, and all I can say, is worth it. (1926 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Jancis Robinson, MW
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View From the Cellar, Nov/Dec 2008, Issue #18, Maison F. E. Trimbach Alsace’s Finest Traditionalist
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Vintage Tastings, Clos Ste. Hune Vertical at Tse Yang, Dinner in Vegas and a 2002 Blind Aussie Recap (11/7/2005)
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Vinous, July/August 2001, IWC Issue #97
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Vinous, Cellar Favorite: Raiding the Cellar at Inspire Napa Valley (Aug 2022)
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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."
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