Zind Humbrecht, Clos Hauserer Riesling Size:6x750ml This is a sophisticated and

This is a sophisticated and classy Pessac-Léognan

this beauty showed its powerful underlying medicinal reserve without losing its freshness

Here too the wood treatment is sufficiently deft as to avoid it fighting with the more prominently earthy and sauvage aromas of mostly dark berry fruit scents

A restrained but wideranging nose grudgingly reveals notes of dark cherry

Zind Humbrecht, Clos Hauserer Riesling Size:6x750ml This is a sophisticated andThe 2005 Riesling Clos Hauserer was another of Humbrechts reluctant fermentors, from very ripe and rot tinged grapes, but thanks to high acidity 22 grams of residual sugar only subtly make their presence known. Vanilla, licorice, sage, quince and peach preserves, orange zest, and brown spices are the key notes in this rich yet almost aggressively penetrating Riesling, but there is also an undeniably chalky undertone to its blazingly citric as well as