Community Tasting Note

JeffGMorris wrote:

Monday, April 11, 2005 - A Day With Olivier Humbrecht (Turckheim, Alsace, France): Medium yellow in color, not showing it's age. This bottle had been recorked by Olivier in the last couple of years. This wine had a wonderful mix of aged characteristics and vibrant fruit and was a beautiful wine to drink with the Vol-au-vent. This was only the 2nd Brand Riesling made by the Humbrechts. They owned the vines in time to make wine in '79 but the fruit was destroyed by a hailstorm and '80 was their first vintage. Olivier described '81 as a very good, but not great, vintage where the wines are still drinking well. Flavors of lemons, iced tea and some petrol on this one and a sense of crystallized fruit that floats on the palate ( typical, I find, of good examples of Brand and Fritz Haag's Juffer Sonnenuhr Rieslings). What a treat to finish out our visit.

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