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"Boxler's 2010 Riesling Brand offers a scintillating and intriguing bouquet of iris, gentian, thyme and myriad distilled floral and herbal essences. A scent of fresh lime barely hints at the brightness of lusciously ripe acidity that follows on a firm, polished palate. There is extraordinary focus and resonance on exhibit here, and the liquefied floral and herbal perfumes mingled with lime and white peach to serve as backdrop for a veritable cascade of shimmering mineral impingements in a vibratory finish. "A late, cool year such as 2010," opines Jean Boxler, "is most interesting of all with Riesling on pure granite" such as exhibited here. Plan to relish this vinous triumph . . . . 'I picked all of my grand cru Riesling at the beginning of the 2011 harvest,' relates Jean Boxler, 'because it was already ripe and I did not want to lose purity or acidity, or to gain alcohol, and I wanted to make the wines as dry as reasonably possible. Normally, letting Riesling hang longer is the right thing, but not in this vintage, as what little I picked later demonstrated. Especially in granite soils, maturation was very rapid. In 2010, by contrast, I picked as late as I possibly could and performed no deacidification. The quality of the acids just kept improving and my foliage was still green through October.' Muscat in 2011, incidentally, Boxler says of a grape with which his estate often scores memorably, 'got Oechsle but simply lacked fruit,' and he blended it away. Like me, Boxler deems his 2010s to be in a different class than his 2011s. 'Maybe 2010 will be a bit difficult in its youth for some consumers to appreciate, but for the professional...' he utters a sigh indicating rapture, and after tasting his collection I know what he meant! While hectoliter per hectare yields in 2010 averaged only in the low twenties, Boxler held onto the reserves he had set aside for the U.S., even as he elected to change importers, so that both his 2010s and his 2011s were shipped after the middle of 2013."
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"Boxler's 2010 Riesling Brand offers a scintillating and intriguing bouquet of iris, gentian, thyme and myriad distilled floral and herbal essences. A scent of fresh lime barely hints at the brightness of lusciously ripe acidity that follows on a firm, polished palate. There is extraordinary focus and resonance on exhibit here, and the liquefied floral and herbal perfumes mingled with lime and white peach to serve as backdrop for a veritable cascade of shimmering mineral impingements in a vibratory finish. "A late, cool year such as 2010," opines Jean Boxler, "is most interesting of all with Riesling on pure granite" such as exhibited here. Plan to relish this vinous triumph . . . . 'I picked all of my grand cru Riesling at the beginning of the 2011 harvest,' relates Jean Boxler, 'because it was already ripe and I did not want to lose purity or acidity, or to gain alcohol, and I wanted to make the wines as dry as reasonably possible. Normally, letting Riesling hang longer is the right thing, but not in this vintage, as what little I picked later demonstrated. Especially in granite soils, maturation was very rapid. In 2010, by contrast, I picked as late as I possibly could and performed no deacidification. The quality of the acids just kept improving and my foliage was still green through October.' Muscat in 2011, incidentally, Boxler says of a grape with which his estate often scores memorably, 'got Oechsle but simply lacked fruit,' and he blended it away. Like me, Boxler deems his 2010s to be in a different class than his 2011s. 'Maybe 2010 will be a bit difficult in its youth for some consumers to appreciate, but for the professional...' he utters a sigh indicating rapture, and after tasting his collection I know what he meant! While hectoliter per hectare yields in 2010 averaged only in the low twenties, Boxler held onto the reserves he had set aside for the U.S., even as he elected to change importers, so that both his 2010s and his 2011s were shipped after the middle of 2013."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
Sheltered by the Vosges mountains, Alsace produces aromatic, mostly dry varietal whites - Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris - of exceptional purity and ageability.
A highly aromatic white of piercing acidity and transparency to terroir, ranging from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. It ages remarkably and is the noble grape of Germany and Alsace.