Zind-Humbrecht | Alsace | Riesling Clos Häuserer | 2012 | 1500ml

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Product description for Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Clos Häuserer 2012

Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Clos Häuserer 2012 is a dry white wine made from Riesling grapes in the Alsace region of France.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 91+

The lemon-gold 2012 Riesling Clos Häuserer (from the bottom of the Hengst Grand Cru in Wintzenheim) shows a very clear, mineral, lemony and elegant Riesling bouquet that is immediately attractive, showing a remarkable freshness, finesse and purity. Purity, finesse and elegance are also first virtues on the palate, which is really dry, piquant and very mineral, as well as well structured and stringent in the salty, tension-filled finish. An impressive Riesling loaded with minerals and lemons for immediate pleasure.
Stephan Reinhardt

Vinous

Score: 90

Bright straw. Floral aromas of grapefruit, lime and smoke. Quite silky in the mouth, but with a racy quality to the flavors of grapefruit, lemon and minerals. Finishes pure and long, with zingy acidity and sound backbone and grip. This classy wine will benefit from a few years of bottle aging. The Clos Hauserer is a much cooler area located just under the Hengst grand cru, and usually gives well-balanced wines with relatively light structure. The soils are mainly marly limestone, and this vineyard was planted in 1973. According to Humbrecht, “the problem here was excessive youthful vigor; the vines grew like weeds and only when they approached 20 years of age did they start to produce something interesting.”
— Ian D’Agata
Drinking window: 2016 – 2024
Review date: Apr 2015

Producer website: http://www.zindhumbrecht.fr/