2018 Riesling Clos Windsbuhl
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This Riesling has such a strong limestone presence, taut structure and pulse. It’s so linear, but with contained fruit – honeyed pink apple and white peach. In some ways it shares strong similarities with white Burgundy. It’s very elegant and fine, but persistent and powerful, building to a super long saline finish.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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The pale lime-yellow 2018 Riesling Clos Windsbuhl opens with an intense and complex, yeasty, flinty and saline bouquet of perfectly ripe, super ripe and even stewed but healthy fruit aromas. From vines averaging 44 years of age on calcareous Muschelkalk soils in a south, southeast-facing cru in Hunawihr, this is a dense, very complex and sustainable dry Riesling that starts very fine and elegant on the palate and is concentrated and intense, with fine, saline acidity, and it develops a deep, pure yet still challenging, vigorous finish due to its youth and structure. The aftertaste is enormously long and salivating. Very promising, Bottled in January 2020 with 12.5% alcohol and a natural cork. Tasted in January 2023.
One of the standouts in this range, the 2018 Riesling Clos Windsbuhl is incredibly vivid in the glass. Time in the glass brings out myriad layers of flavor and dimension. Orange confit, crushed rocks, mint and more exotic notes all meld together in an airy, weightless wine that has so much to offer. The 2018 is at once intense but also carries itself with a real sense of grace.
About the producer
Widely acknowledged as one of the legendary wineries in Alsace, the wines of Domaine Zind-Humbrecht are nothing short of magical. Certified organic and biodynamic, the estate crafts an extensive range of wines, including many Grand Cru and single-vineyard bottlings.