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1257 Kensington Road NW
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$54.99
Zind-Humbrecht is a leader in biodynamic viticultuure, and Olivier Zind-Humbrecht explains it as such:
"There is no ideal culture, any culture is not natural. The ideal culture is Nature, which always adapts and survives. Culture is a kind of contradiction, we force something. If we cultivate a plant, let's make sure that its environment is favourable so that it forgets that it is cultivated. Let's make sure that we bring energy to the plant to strengthen it, to favour its vital elements, to make it understand its terroir and the work it has to do, and that above all this work is not perceived as a constraint. We changed our way of looking at things, we observed to try to understand the vine, where it wants to go and what it likes or dislikes to do, to better guide and educate it. We had to find a working method to obtain the grapes that would allow us to make a great wine without torturing the plant. And this working method is biodynamics. An agricultural practice that aims to create an environment that allows the different elements that live there, plants, animals and humans, to develop as harmoniously as possible. And a philosophy of life, a way of thinking, studying, looking differently and understanding. To understand in order to go further in the relationship with the vine, the soil and the wine and to become a writer of his own recipe"
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This wine is produced each year from a blend of several small vineyards located in the town of Gueberschwihr, south of Colmar, all planted by Olivier's father in the 60s and 70s. Their common point is a moderately late ripening terroir on calcareous-sandstone marl, facing east or south on a gentle slope. These vines are of exemplary regularity and have the immense advantage of not suffering from climatic excesses, especially lack of water or excess heat. The 2020 vintage is in fact a vintage that is perfectly suited to this type of terroir. The harvest was early and very healthy, the fermentation was slow like all Rieslings in 2020 and was able to finish with a very dry balance. Aged in large old oak foudres on total lees until bottling.