The 2018 Gewurztraminer Roche Roulee is quite a bit drier than the Roche Calcaire tasted next to it. The candied orange peel and passion fruit flavors are a bit more overt, but the wine retains terrific tension and energy to balance things out. The Roche ...
The nose is fresh but shows complete restraint. The palate gently draws pure Comice pear fruit, its ripeness tempered with ample clean freshness. A streamlined precise slenderness characterizes this bone-dry, restrained and therefore utterly elegant Pinot...
A very shy nose on this wine gives next to nothing away. The palate, however, comes in with intense creaminess that has an edge of melted butter. It sits well with the rich, rounded pear fruit that dominates the midpalate. Gentle freshness frames the frui...
Bright yellow. Sexy peach, strawberry nectar and orange oil on the perfumed nose. Rich, powerful and dry; this currently uncompromising wine is much bigger, richer and rounder than the Pinot Gris R?serve. It's almost sweet by Trimbach's standards (7 or 8 ...
70% Muscat ottonel, 30% Muscat d'Alsace from the monopole Clos des Capucins vineyard. Delicate and subtle nose of honeysuckle, fresh herbs and elderflower. Nicely concentrated, the noticeable presence of the fruit leaves an astonishing body and a crisp dryness. A pure and elegant finish with a fresh acidity, counterbalancing the richness of the ripened fruit. 13.7% alcohol and 0.4 g/l residual sugar
The nose is shy with a faint note of lemon. The palate then presents a cool, lemon-edged sense of juicy pear but remains streamlined and bright, giving the merest edge of almond skin bitterness. The finish is bone dry and mouth-watering. (bone dry)
The 2021 Riesling Cuvee Theo is harvested in the granitic sand of the Clos des Capucins. The palate has the taut, bright citrus wonder we know. A light bodied, vivid and dry Rieslng shining with ripe lemon and subtle tangerine. The finish is bone dry an...