Weinbach Alsace Grand Cru Schlossberg Sélection de Grains Nobles Riesling 2017 (500ml)

Name: Weinbach Alsace Grand Cru Schlossberg Sélection de Grains Nobles Riesling 2017 (500ml)
Brand: Domaine Weinbach
SKU: BIB21070-500
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About this Wine

Biodynamic. Sélection de Grains Nobles wines are much scarcer and richer than the Vendange Tardives, due to both the berry-by-berry harvest, and the stipulated sugar levels at harvest (256 g/L for Riesling, and 279 g/L for Gewürztraminer and Pinot Gris). These wines also contain far more botrytised fruit (notwithstanding that 2017 was not a strong botrytis year for Weinbach). This was wild-fermented and aged in stainless steel for 18 months. This extraordinary wine finished with 10.5% alcohol and 144g/L residual balanced by 7.6 g/L acidity.

Dripping with flavours and aromas of orange blossom, spring flowers and wild strawberries, this extraordinary SGN offers exceptional balance between alcohol, sugar and acidity.

Type	White Wine
Varietal(s)	Riesling
Country	France
Region	Alsace
Brand	Domaine Weinbach
Vintage	2017.0

Alsatian wine

Alsace is a unique wine region in North Eastern France, bordering Germany and having also been under German control for much of its existence. Due to this influence, unlike other French regions, wines from Alsace are mostly single varietal bottlings and are also labelled with the variety. They also are legally required to use a tall slimmer bottle called flûtes d'Alsace, that is also commonly seen with German wines.

Almost all the wine produced in the region is white (90%) except for Pinot Noir which is used mainly for sparkling wine. Alsace is most known for its Riesling, which is dry, fresh and floral in its youth but develops complex mineral and flint character with age. Following behind is Gewurztraminer with signature spice and beautiful lychee aromatics. The smell of this wine is intoxicating, it is used to make dry but also late harvest dessert wines. Pinot Gris is also a prized variety of the region with its combination of crisp acidity and savory spice as well as ripe stone fruit flavours.

In Autumn humidity builds up to facilitate the development of “noble rot” to produce late-picked sweet wines. In Alsace there are two classifications for late harvest wines: Vendange Tardive (VT) and Sélection de Grains Nobles (SGN). VT for regular late harvest wines and SGN meaning grapes affected by noble rot.

Other varieties grown here include Pinot Blanc, Muscat, Auxerrois, Chasselas and Sylvaner.

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