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Jean Sipp Les Trois Terroirs Pinot Blanc 2016

Jean Sipp Les Trois Terroirs Pinot Blanc 2016

Having studied at the Avize school in Champagne, winegrower Jean-Jacques Sipp’s 2016 Pinot Blanc Les Trois Terroirs has the sort of elegance and bracing acidity that is found in a good bubbly. Pale gold, it blooms with aromas of bruised pear, lemon pith, Persian melon, white flowers. It’s just off-dry and feels tart and tightly […]

Gustave Lorentz Pinot Blanc Alsace Réserve 2016

Gustave Lorentz Pinot Blanc Alsace Réserve 2016

Made from 100% Pinot Blanc sourced from vineyard parcels in the Grand Cru Altenberg de Bergheim, and grown in predominantly clay-limestone soils, the Gustave Lorentz Réserve Pinot Blanc exhibits a light and limber profile on the nose and palate. Almond cookie, lemon drop, green apple, dried mint, and wet stone. In the mouth, it’s refreshing […]

Dopff & Irion Cuvée Réne Dopff Pinot Blanc 2016

Dopff & Irion Cuvée Réne Dopff Pinot Blanc 2016

Limpid pale yellow in the glass, the 2016 Dopff & Irion Cuvée Réne Dopff Pinot Blanc is awash with spritely notes of d’Anjou pear, freshly cut yellow apple, white peach, blanched almond, and spring blossoms. Round on the palate, with body and autolytic mid-tones from four months aging on the lees—subtle minerality, white pepper, and […]

Trimbach Pinot Gris Alsace Réserve Personnelle 2014

Trimbach Pinot Gris Alsace Réserve Personnelle 2014

The Pinot Gris for Trimbach’s Pinot Gris Alsace Réserve Personnelle is sourced from Grand Cru parcels of Osterberg situated around Ribeauville, where calcareous marl sandstone soils are studded with and bio-degraded seashell fossils called “Muschelkalk.” Fresh and mineral, the 2014 vintage is bursting with layered aromas of d’Anjou pear, and star fruit, papaya, and lemon […]

Meyer-Fonné Altenbourg Pinot Noir 2015

Meyer-Fonné Altenbourg Pinot Noir 2015

The 2015 ’Altenbourg’ is Meyer-Fonné’s inaugural release, and the Pinot Noir used to craft it hails from winery’s Gallus vineyard, a small 0.7 ha parcel of marly limestone planted in 1996. Unfiltered and fermented with wild yeast, it’s a linear wine that delivers up a spicy mélange of brambly fruit, underbrush, dried raspberry leaf, and […]

Trimbach Réserve Riesling 2016

Trimbach Réserve Riesling 2016

The color of winter sunlight, Trimbach’s 2016 Réverve Riesling is made from old vines planted on the winery’s estate parcels notably classed as Grand Cru—these vineyards lie within ancient calcareous limestone soils studded with fossilized seashells known as “Muschelkalk.” A kaleidoscope of white peach, yellow apple, lemongrass, lemon pith, wet stone, and kerosene. In the […]

Francois Baur Schlittweg Pinot Noir 2015

Francois Baur Schlittweg Pinot Noir 2015

Francois Bauer Pinot Noir. From biodynamically grown Pinot Noir located in the Brand Alsatian Grand Cru, the 2015 Francois Bauer Schlittweg Pinot Noir sports nimble layers of underbrush, briery berries and black cherry, spice, lavender, and rose petal. In the mouth, it’s round, with supple, ultra-fine tannins and an acid spine that wends its way […]

Domaine Ostertag Les Jardins Pinot Noir 2016

Domaine Ostertag Les Jardins Pinot Noir 2016

Perfect for the holiday season, this complex biodynamic Alsatian Pinot Noir from Domaine Ostertag, the 2016 ‘Les Jardins’ opens in a forest glen—decaying leaves crackling underfoot, damp moss, bark, and forest floor, perhaps even a touch of barnyard. This more pastoral aspect wafts off to reveal sour cherries, spiced apple rings, and an evolving florality […]

Trimbach Pinot Gris Alsace Réserve 2013

Trimbach Pinot Gris Alsace Réserve 2013

Brimming with aromas of peach pit, apricot, paraffin, pastry cream, and white flowers, Trimbach’s 2013 Pinot Gris Alsace Réserve is full and fleshy on the palate with a gorgeous, driving vein of oyster shell and saline that pulses through the core like a magnetic wave. Highly recommended. 13.5% ABV | Sample Trimbach 89 Points

Emile Beyer Pinot Gris Tradition 2016

Emile Beyer Pinot Gris Tradition 2016

Pale straw in the glass, Emile Beyer’s Pinot Gris Tradition 2016 enchants with aromas of yellow peach, pear, lemon drop, stargazer lily, muskmelon, lemon thyme, and smoky minerality. It’s quite round in the mouth, while still maintaining balance as pitch-perfect acidity winds ’round a core that presents a textural landscape of pear skin, peach pit, […]

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