Zind-Humbrecht, Riesling, Rangen de Thann, Clos Saint Urbain, Alsace Grand Cru, France 2020
$149.00
Zind-Humbrecht, Riesling, Rangen de Thann, Clos Saint Urbain, Alsace Grand Cru, France 2020
$149.00
- Alcohol: 13.6%
- Residual sweetness: 5.5 g/l
- Terroir: Sedimentary volcanic rocks, facing South, very steep slope.
- Indice 1/EU Dry wine.
The volcanic terroir of Rangen dominates the aromatics of this young wine with all its power: gunflint, crushed rocks… good
aeration will eventually bring out an aromatic palette of ripe white fruits. Although still on its reserve, this wine impresses
with its complexity. The palate is caressing on the attack, ample, rich, and gradually reveals a powerful finish, warm then
strict, especially when the acidity and the ripe tannins of the vintage finally manage to express themselves. This Rangen has a
majestic intensity. What a wine!
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“The 2020 Riesling Rangen de Thann Clos Saint Urbain offers a fascinating, pure and complex, iodine and smoky nose of crushed volcanic rocks and perfectly ripe Riesling fruits. This nose is mind-blowing in its combination of purity, complexity, finesse and characterizing flintiness. On the palate, this is a full-bodied, very rich and intense, powerful and big but uplifting and fresh Riesling with great complexity, stimulating salinity and very fine mineral tannins. This is the finest Rangen Riesling I have tasted so far from the Clos St Urbain, and a vertical tasting (of any vintages) is long overdue. 13.6% alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in April 2022.”-(99-100)WA
With an unbroken winemaking lineage in Alsace since 1620, Domaine Zind-Humbrecht came by its current name in 1959 when Leonard Humbrecht married Genevieve Zind. In the 1960s and 1970s, Leonard was able to expand the winery’s collection of Grands Crus and other high quality vineyards. Since then, one of the hallmarks of every Zind-Humbrecht wine has been its overriding sense of terroir: the taste of the vineyard is always clear and unmistakable.
Zind-Humbrecht is managed by Olivier Humbrecht, one of the world’s only winemakers to attain MW status. His passion for Alsatian wines and Biodynamic farming translates into a portfolio of legendary wines recognizable for their purity, intensity and, above all, their faithful expression of each individual vineyard site.
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