Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Saturday, June 9, 2012 - Zind-Humbrecht Pinot Gris Rangen de Thann Clos St. Urbain Vertical (Absinthe, Bukit Pasoh): Wow. This was a very special wine. As good as the other Pinot Gris on the night were, this was probably my favourite of the lot. It had a beautiful nose, rather deeper and more developed than the 1995 that preceded it, with strikingly Vouvray-like notes of lanolin and pure red apple aromas arrayed amongst more familiar scents of honey and orange blossoms, sweet flowers and chalky mineral, and then nice, savoury notes of earth and meat and stewed mushrooms. Really complex, lovely stuff - and the palate was even better. It was just incredibly balanced, with a mindblowing purity and clarity to its citrussy grapefruit and lime zest zooming through fleshier flavours of lemon curd and orange. This was streaked with a gentle, yet insistent stream of stony mineral on the midpalate and an intriguingly saline, salted-nut nuance that floated around the whole package. What a complete wine - powerful, supple, complex, yet almost subtle in spite of its expressive flavours, and always punctuated with that amazing balance and definition. This was pitch perfect from its wonderful attack all the way into a long, powerful finish lined with more of those wet stoney mineral notes. A wonderful wine, drinking at peak. What a treat this was.

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