2008 Riesling, Clos Ste Hune, Trimbach, Alsace

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2008 Riesling, Clos Ste Hune, Trimbach, AlsaceThe rather unassuming pale lemon coloured wine belies all that awaits one on the nose and palate! This is a perfect lesson in understated and yet beautifully precise wine making. The nose is smoky, with hints of wet pebble and a mineralite and a touch of lime juice, lemon grass. The palate is what I would refer to as politely austere, at one moment tightly packed and iron like, white stone fruit and yet with a poise and precision that only comes from

From biodynamically grown grapes with Biodyvin certification

Château Lynch Bages

While it's the Médoc that tends to steal the limelight in this vintage

Simply awesome

As a young wine this is already deliciously balanced and charming

Blue chip provenance includes the villages of Avize

Taittinger’s 2008 Brut Millesimé is a powerful

& Rudd (Feb 2021)

and count Rabelais among their ancestors

50% Chardonnay and 50% Pinot Noir are used

crisp martini or distinctive negroni

The 1979 was an extraordinary vintage