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January Distinguished Cellar Series: Midwest Gentlemanâs No Reserve Auction
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Lot 542
Estimate: $110
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"One of the greatest sweet white wines I have ever tasted is the 1993 Pinot Gris Rangen Clos St.-Urbain. Made from yields of 5 hectoliters per hectare (about 200 bottles per acre), this wine possesses 13.5% alcohol and 11% residual sugar. If it doesnât last 60 years, blame me! The orange/salmon color is followed by an amazingly rich, intense wine that tastes almost dry because of the high acidity. Like virtually everything produced at this domaine, it is a blockbuster tour de force in winemaking! This wine from Domaine Zind-Humbrecht is off the charts. There are only 50 or so cases of this wine, which takes richness, sweetness, and honeyed characteristics to unprecedented levels - at least for my palate. With respect to the recently released wines, Olivier Humbrecht stated that he had never seen such intensely ripe Pinot Gris with such high levels of acidity."
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"One of the greatest sweet white wines I have ever tasted is the 1993 Pinot Gris Rangen Clos St.-Urbain. Made from yields of 5 hectoliters per hectare (about 200 bottles per acre), this wine possesses 13.5% alcohol and 11% residual sugar. If it doesnât last 60 years, blame me! The orange/salmon color is followed by an amazingly rich, intense wine that tastes almost dry because of the high acidity. Like virtually everything produced at this domaine, it is a blockbuster tour de force in winemaking! This wine from Domaine Zind-Humbrecht is off the charts. There are only 50 or so cases of this wine, which takes richness, sweetness, and honeyed characteristics to unprecedented levels - at least for my palate. With respect to the recently released wines, Olivier Humbrecht stated that he had never seen such intensely ripe Pinot Gris with such high levels of acidity."
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Sheltered by the Vosges mountains, Alsace produces aromatic, mostly dry varietal whites - Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris - of exceptional purity and ageability.