Community Tasting Notes 5

• winetobealive wrote:

  November 20, 2023 - non goûté
  Présentation technique par le domaine :
  Mise en bouteille : Septembre 2011
  Alcool acquis : 4.5°
  Sucre résiduel : 359.0 g/l
  Acidité totale : 6.0 g/l H2SO4
  pH : 3.5
  Rendement : 12 hl/ha
  Optimum de dégustation : Dieu seul le sait !
  Âge moyen des vignes : 25 ans
  Terroir : Clos Jebsal
  Indice de sucrosité : SGN
  Disponible à la vente : Oui
  Sol : Exposé sud, Marnes grises et gypse (Keuper), Terraces et forte pente
  Format : 375 ml
  Dans une année comme 2008, une sélection normale, sans rechercher une richesse extrême, aboutit à un vin dont le potentiel dépasse largement les 30° potentiels (si le vin fermentait sec, il aurait plus de 30° d’alcool !). À ce niveau de richesse, au-dessus de 200° Oechslés ou 30° potentiel, le niveau de concentration du moût est tel que les levures ont beaucoup plus de mal à se multiplier et fermenter. Le résultat est une fermentation qui peut durer des années et s’arrête avec un alcool acquis souvent inférieure à 6°. La pression osmotique (liée à la richesse en sucre) sur les membranes des levures est telle qu’elles doivent littéralement exploser au bout d’un temps très court. Ce vin est toujours en fermentation aujourd’hui dans des petits fûts de 600 litres (mars 2010) et ne sera probablement pas mis en bouteille avant 2011 ou 2012.

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• lepetitchateau wrote: 96 points

  April 15, 2023 - Incredible richness, succulent power - shows well tonight, but will improve with time as its sugar and acidity need to meld further. A very special wine!

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• aschawel Likes this wine: 100 points

  December 24, 2022 - Xmas Eve dinner. Served with hazelnut praline Bouche de Noël.

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• JulianSkeels wrote:

  August 8, 2017 - I'm not a big pinot gris fan but really enjoyed this bottle shared with Olivier. Nose of figs, honey and wax. Very high acidity in the mouth with caramel texture. Intensively sweet and complex - for me the nose shades the mouth at the moment but this needs another decade or two to become really really interesting. A special wine but definitely on the sticky side for me. Not rated.

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• ubercuvee wrote:

  May 26, 2015 - WINEMAKER'S NOTES: [Olivier Humbrecht]
  Pinot-Gris Clos Jebsal 2008 Sélection de Grains Nobles Trie Speciale
  Bottling date? /? Alcohol: under 5° alc; Residual sweetness: above 350 g/l (potential alcohol: 216° Oechslés or 33% potential alc); ? g/l H2SO4, pH: ?; Yields: 12 hl/ha; Optimum drinking period: ?/?; Average age of the vines: 25 years; Surface: 1.3 ha; Terroir: Grey marls and gypsum. South facing, very steep slope.
  I do not believe that there is another vineyard in Alsace capable to so consistently produce late harvest style wines of such richness. It really is in the nature of the Clos Jebsal to allow noble rot and force us to harvest grapes with huge richness potential. The fantastic grey/green marl mixed with the gypsum rock (Jebsal is the place of Gypsum) provides the mineral frame and thevstructure necessary to carry so much richness and residual sugars. In exceptional years with great acidity potential like 2008, a normal SGN selection, without having to be more severe in selecting the berries, ends up with potential alcohol well above 30% (that is if all the sugar ferment through, the wine would have more than 30% alcohol). Something happens with the yeasts at such richness that the fermentation takes years to reach only 4 or 5% alcohol, leaving a huge sweetness in the wine. At these concentrations, the osmosis pressure on the membrane of the yeast is such that it must literally explode after a few days of existence. Imagine the state of our skin if we would be buried in a barrel of sugar! Today, this wine is still fermenting, very slowly, in two small 600l new casks. We have no idea when it will be finished!
  
  2/2010: I am not sure if it makes sense to comment this wine today while still bubbling slowly. The aromas are still extremely sugary, honeyed, macerated green apples with some fermenting character. It is actually a very elegant nose but by far not accomplished yet. The palate is much more interesting today, even if fermentation isn’t finished, I doubt that there will be big changes before the end. The acidity must be unbelievable as it totally masters the sweetness. The mouth texture is very rich, creamy, honeyed. The wine pours like olive oil but still has a very pale and clear colour. A work in progress, but very interesting at this stage.

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• Vintage 2008
• Type White - Sweet/Dessert
• Producer Zind-Humbrecht
• Varietal Pinot Gris
• Designation Sélection de Grains Nobles Trié Spéciale
• Vineyard Clos Jebsal
• Country France
• Region Alsace
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Alsace
• UPC Code 3760163400891

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• In Cellars 70 (80%)
• Consumed 17 (20%)

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