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• By Jancis Robinson, MW
  6/13/2016 (link)

  (Schlumberger, Saering Riesling Alsace Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text.

Vinous

• By Ian D'Agata
  Alsace: The 2014s and Late-Release 2013s (Feb 2016), 2/1/2016 (link)

  (Domaines Schlumberger Riesling Grand Cru Saering) Subscribe to see review text.

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• By Julia Harding, MW
  10/12/2015 (link)

  (Schlumberger, Saering Riesling Alsace Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Alsace, 12/14/2018

  (Schlumberger Riesling Grand Cru Saering) Hello friends. Today we have another in our year-ending Instant Gratification series of offers. These all contain wines that are in the warehouse and ready for immediate pickup post-allocation (allocations will take place tomorrow at 10am). In addition to today, we have just one more pickup weekend in 2018 (Dec 20-22), then our usual two-week holiday closure. Our first open pickup weekend in 2019 will be Jan 10-12. Do we all like the idea of Alsace more than the reality? I kinda think so. We hear Alsace and think of full, dry, age-worthy whites from little French-Germanic hillside plots turning gold in autumn as a tarte flambée bubbles in a rustic hearth. Which all sounds great. Right up until we see the price. At which point we’re like: or maybe Savoie. It helps to explain why we don’t send out very many Alsace offers, but I can say that when we do send them out, they tend to be compelling. Including today, where we have a pair of vintages of Grand Cru Riesling at varying stages of evolution:We have about half as much ’12 as ’14, so I won’t say much here, except that accessing grand cru Alsace Riesling at six years past vintage is a rare treat indeed. This one clocks in at 12.5% listed alc and comes blasting out of the glass with the clear smoky/diesel tones indicating a fine aged Riesling. Those are paired to orange blossom and lime leaf and mineral, rounding out a fine, compelling nose. The palate is dry, with lovely glyceryl heft belying the moderate alcohol and carrying a mix of fruit and earth tones easily across the palate. This still has years left in the tank.