Community Tasting Notes 18

• Pepin... wrote: 96 points

  October 7, 2023 - What a bottle! Still fresh after 18 years. On the nose, there are layers of honey, passion fruit, ripe apricot and rose. On the palate, there is a perfect balance between sweetness, acidity and the high alcohol level which could go unnoticed.

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• Papies wrote: 93 points

  March 27, 2021 - Saturday night at The Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Always so pretty these wine and never fail to put a smile on our face . This is less of a sweet sticky wine and has a refreshing feel ( for a sweet wine) given its acidity and is impressively balanced. Super solid 93 and this has easily 30yrs of life to go but delicious now too.

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• nskelsey wrote: 95 points

  June 24, 2018 - What a brilliant wine! Fantastic nose of lychees, peach and passionfruit combining with a hint of citrus. What wonderful richness on the palate and despite being a sweet, botrytis-infused dessert wine, like all Zind-Humbrecht wines it retains freshness and is made with a deft hand and lightness of touch. It is in no way cloying despite the high sugar levels and displays terrific clarity of flavours. Some VT wines are dense, but this is transparent and its terroir is clear for all to see. Perfect with cheese, but I would have also been happy to smell and sip this all night as a dessert in a glass. Estimated maturity: Now - 2030+

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• Paul S wrote: 93 points

  January 30, 2018 - A rich, powerful wine, this went well with the robustly flavoured Chinese seafood dishes that we had. The nose drifted out of the glass with notes of honey, red apples, orange blossoms and just a tiny hint of spice and drifts of lanolin. The palate was even more full of red apples than the nose, along with a sweet river of honeyed notes and more orangey flavours, all rich and weighty and just about decently balanced by some quiet acidity. Not what I would call fresh, but certainly focused. It finished with a nice beeswaxy, almost oily tail touched with a bit of spice and twist of bittersweet almond skins. This has hardly moved from the last bottle I had three years back - it needs many years yet. Try again 2020 to gauge progress.

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• Paul S wrote: 93 points

  October 16, 2015 - Zind-Humbrecht Clos Windsbuhl Dinner (Mitzo, Grand Park Orchard): Lovely – a nice way to end the night. If anything, my favourite wines from Zind-Humbrecht’s Clos Windsbuhl plot (where Riesling and Pinot Gris are also grown) have been the Gewurztraminers. Something about the limestone and high altitude of the vineyard seems to lend an elegance and verve to a low-acid grape that can, if not handled carefully, lead to stodgy wines, especially on the VT and SGN levels. This was a fine example of how a good Gewurztraminer VT is made, even in a warm vintage. It had such a lovely, perfumed nose, with classic notes of lychees and roses along with late harvest accents of honey and toasted spices. The palate shared some of that lovely, rich, fleshiness promised on the nose, with peaches and lychees and dried longans at the fore; but it was also surprisingly fresh and light on its feet, with a nice touch of acidity and spice and minerality cutting through the sweeter fruit on the midpalate and into the neat finish with its hint of rose petals. Very good, and this should develop nicely over the next 5-10 years, maybe more, as well.

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• Vintage 2005
• Type White - Off-dry
• Producer Zind-Humbrecht
• Varietal Gewürztraminer
• Designation Vendange Tardive
• Vineyard Clos Windsbuhl
• Country France
• Region Alsace
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Alsace

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• In Cellars 170 (68%)
• Consumed 73 (29%)

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