Klassifiziering | Grand Cru |
Typ | Weisswein |
Marke | Zind Humbrecht |
Jahrgang | 1995 |
Land | Frankreich |
Region | Elsass |
Traube | Riesling |
Inhalt | 0,75 |
Zustand | Perfekt |
Label | Perfekt |
Vorrat | 0 |
I tasted seven 1995 Rieslings from ZH, five of them dry, and two entitled to the Vendange Tardive (late harvest) designation. The two Vendange Tardive Rieslings were both medium sweet, and thus more open knit and approachable. The 1995 Riesling Brand V.T. (13% residual sugar and a whopping 12.5% total acidity) is a medium sweet, orange and tangerine-scented and flavored, spicy, full-bodied, highly-extracted wine with superb richness, mouthsearing acidity, and a backward, unevolved, potentially profound style. This wine should be cellared for 1-3 years, and drunk over the following two decades.
A wine that unfolds slowly on the palate, revealing flavors of baked apples, honey, apricots and lime. Its firm structure and tight finish