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Subregion | France > Alsace |
Colour | Sweet White |
Type | Still |
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Last tasted from the ten-year-old demi-muid in which it was destined to have spent at a total of at least four years, the Zind-Humbrecht 2010 Pinot Gris Clos Jebsal Selection de Grains Nobles Trie Speciale was at that time not yet even legally wine. But like its author, I'll venture an interim tasting note to give you a flavor of the thing. Imagine motor oil-weight yet almost weightless concentrates of pear and apricot laced with yeast, candied grapefruit rind, caramel and fleur de sel that coat the palate and linger with truly amazing persistence. What a lot there is to look forward to here through mid-century! (A 2009, tasted alongside and also from barrel, displayed awkwardly oxidative and volatile notes that by no means negated the positive effects of its phenomenal concentration of pit fruits, honey and sorghum and were certainly part of a formidably complex performance, but that led me to believe I would have been describing and rating it at an inopportune moment. ""It needs to mellow and ripen in cask yet,"" remarked its author.)
This offers a heady nose, akin to a rose garden after the rain, and melts on your tongue with the texture of spun honey. Finely balanced, with a rich and smoky flavor profile offering notes of baked peach, pecan pie, beeswax, lemon meringue and candied ginger. Drink now through 2035.