1988 Trimbach Riesling Clos St-Hune
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Tasted from a magnum during a dinner in the Auberge de l'Ill in November 2024, the 1988 Riesling Clos Ste Hune possesses clear, bright, elegant and spicy fruit on the nose. The palate is dense, elegant, extremely complex, tightly structured, savory and very sustainable. The Clos Ste Hune has never been marketed in magnums, but this sample comes from just such a rare bottle. Tasted at the Auberge de l'Ill in November 2024.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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For the forgotten vintage this is a sensational wine and really shows what makes Clos Ste. Hune a unique vineyard site in Alsace. Great smoky-toasty complexity and a wealth of dried citrus-peel character. Very good concentration, but nothing flashy on the very focused and animating finish. Now at its peak. Served from magnum. Drink now.
Probably 12.5% says Jean Trimbach. After 1986 and 1987, 1988 was greeted rapturously but then was followed by the magic duo of 1989 and 1990 so it was rather forgotten. Magnum. There’s still some reverberant fruit but it’s definitely old. (JR)
Good pale, bright yellow. Subdued but very pure aromas of grapefruit and orange peel and crushed stone. Then bracing and remarkably youthful in the mouth, offering highly complex flavors of peach, tarragon, licorice, herbal tea and dried flowers. Wonderfully nuanced and true to its site, and yet this uncompromisingly dry riesling comes across as extremely young today. Blind, I would have guessed this to be no more than ten years old.