Zind Humbrecht, Clos Hauserer Riesling Size:6x750ml A restrained but wideranging nose

A restrained but wideranging nose grudgingly reveals notes of dark cherry

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

supple and open knit

a touch of menthol and 5-spice

Zind Humbrecht, Clos Hauserer Riesling Size:6x750ml A restrained but wideranging noseThe 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