Zind-Humbrecht | Alsace | Pinot Gris Rotenberg | 2014 | 750ml | bio

Description

Product description for Zind-Humbrecht Pinot Gris Rotenberg 2014 (bio)

Colour

The rich golden yellow of a marigold, the wine is clear and brilliant.

Nose

Driven by yellow-fleshed, juicy fruit, the wine displays a magnificent abundance of aromas. Ripe apricot and Charentais melon, as well as the ethereal spice of blood orange peel and the anticipated sweetness of candied dried pineapple, combine harmoniously with herbal notes of meadow sage and spruce shoots, as well as dandelion and honeybush tea. Yes, even the beeswax under the cap gets its aromatic piece of the cake.

Palate

The 2014 Pinot Gris Rotenberg from Domaine Zind-Humbrecht is generous on the palate. On the one hand, it presents itself broad-shouldered and of considerable opulence, on the other hand, it presents itself as balanced, tight-knit, and compact. Its power and creamy fruitiness are balanced by a delicate bitterness and moderate acidity in the finish. A wine lover’s visual example of the principle of yin and yang.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 92+

The 2014 Pinot Gris Rotenberg has a pretty clear and spicy/flinty bouquet. On the palate this is a rich and intense, very salty and piquant Pinot with lots of tension and a very good concentration (the yield was just 25 hectoliters per hectare). However, the wine is also finessed, very clear and bone dry. It finished with 2.5 grams of residual sugar and 13.3% alcohol, and has a slightly higher acidity of six grams (with a pH of 3.2). Bottled in August 2015.
“The Rotenberg was perfect in 2014,” says Olivier, “it was very healthy since we didn’t have any drosophila problems, due to the high altitude (300-350 meters) and the windy exposition of this west, north-west facing vineyard, which the fly doesn’t like.” The Rotenberg Pinot is grown on red oligocene limestone soils (like in the Hengst).
Stephan Reinhardt

Vinous

Score: 88+

Bright yellow. Aromas of peach blossom and sweet spices are complicated by nuances of beeswax and white flowers. Dry (2.5 g/L residual sugar), rich and creamy, offering a ripe peach flavor and good acidity (the lab value says 6.1 g/L, but this wine tastes like it’s a lot less; it must be just an impression of mine, because the pH is a lowish 3.2). Plenty of body and fat here, but manages to steer a course just this side of heavy.
— Ian D’Agata
Drinking window: 2019 – 2029
Review date: Mar 2017

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