Riesling Brand Grand Cru 2018 - Zind-Humbrecht

Riesling Brand Grand Cru 2018 - Zind-Humbrecht

Indice of sweetness on the palate: 1, analytically dry or dry tasting wine

Tasting: bright yellow gold colour. Intense nose but clearly still restraint and marked by the long full lees contact. Wet stones, citrus fruit, honeydew…. It does open up with aeration and the generosity and richness of the granite eventually shows up. The palate is broad and rich, concentrated and sapid. The wine shows a beautiful vibrancy and energy. Soft tannins but showing an interesting impact on the finish, bringing a drier mouthfeel. To keep!

Only Riesling is planted in our Brand vineyards, which represents a surface of approximately 2.4ha. In the Brand, this variety acquires finesse and elegance (floral and fruit aromas) without ever becoming coarse or too heavy. The Brand always surprises by the precocity of its wines, but whilst expressive young they also have a great ability to age. The nature of this terroir makes it easy to obtain an optimal ripeness whilst retaining a fine acidity (malic acid degrades more in poor soils and warm localities).

Indice: Level of sweetness on the palate. Scale from 1 to 5.

1: analytically dry or tasting dry. 2: not analytically dry, but sugars are not evident on the palate. Some tasters may find a slight roundness in the finish. These wines will taste dry with some bottle ageing. 3: medium sweetness, higher in the youth of the wine, which will gradually fade with age. 4: Sweet wine. 5: Sweet wine, very close to a Vendange Tardive.

Caution: The bottles of Alsace wine do not fit into the wooden boxes sold separately.