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2012 Trimbach Riesling Clos Sainte Hune, Alsace

A$519.75

Probably the benchmark for riesling. the 2012 Trimbach Riesling Clos Sainte Hune cannot be underestaimated.  A powerhouse of flavours, running from spicy preserved lemon to pear and peach. This is balanced by a mineral aci salt finish. There is so much to love about this wine. 

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Probably the benchmark for riesling. the 2012 Trimbach Riesling Clos Sainte Hune cannot be underestaimated.  A powerhouse of flavours, running from spicy preserved lemon to pear and peach. This is balanced by a mineral aci salt finish. There is so much to love about this wine. 

Cool, aristocratic and iron-rich on the nose where some flinty notes are displayed the 2012 Riesling Clos Ste Hune starts very pure and demanding on the nose. 

On the palate you can find as much energy and tension as in an electric power station. The wine is very clear, fresh and pure, shows lots of salt on the very elegant and seductive palate. The finish is very long and complex and indicates a terrific aging potential. 
Drink 2020-2040.

‘Very cool, delicate and floral with daring elegance. Not the most powerful wine of this ripe vintage, but extremely refined. A very long finish that is marked by chalky minerality. The way that it literally blossoms in the glass after half an hour suggests that this masterpiece has at least a couple of decades of life ahead of it. Decant if you want to drink now.’ 
97 points, Stuart Pigott, JamesSuckling.com, May 2018

Golden straw-yellow. Delicate but very deep and closed nose offers scents of green apple, ginger, white peach, lemon and smoke. Quite brooding today but already conveys sneaky concentration to its rich, gingery stone fruit and fusel flavors. Finishes dense and rich, but fresh, harmonius acidity and a saline edge keep the wine light and lively on the palate. This vintage of Clos Ste. Hune is marked by an especially strong diesel fuel note, which Pierre Trimbach believes is only minimally due to the warmer vintage and more so to the terroir. Moreover, Trimbach believes that with the increased use of gentler presses in the region, this early-onset fusel smell in Riesling wines will become less and less common. I am not a huge fan of petrolly young Rieslings, so I find this wine tough to judge today. But I do think this will be one of those vintages in which the quality difference between the Frédéric Emile and the CSH will turn out to be minimal.

Ian D'Agata, www.vinous.com


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Wine Type White Wine
Wine Style Certified Organic
Country France
Region Alsace
Varietals Riesling
Vintage 2012
Bottle Size 750ml
Wine Points 97
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