Pinot Gris/Pinot Grigio

This is classic Pinot Grigio from Friuli made for us by Christian Patat at Nec Otium. Unoaked and expressing remarkable energy and freshness, the wine displays an attractive clarity, while still embodying the texture and tone expected of 100 percent Pinot Grigio. The nose hints at stone fruit and subtle florals, while the palate is textured and bright, with blossom notes, crisp acidity and fresh, ripe fruit.
Davy yw

This is clean and crisp in character, with a Pinot Grigio texture on the mid-palate adding a touch of depth to an accessible and bright wine. risp acidity creates energy and carries the finish. This is perfect for drinking now. 

Sunny and seductive, with aromas of pear, lychee and ripe citrus. The full, rich palate flirts with excess, but only flirts – there’s racy acidity throughout. Try this with oriental dishes or a Caribbean curry.

This elegant, floral cuvée hails from a parcel adjacent to Vosne-Romanée, and is one of the few that was spared from frost in 2016. The palate is not dense but delicate, combining spice, dark-fruit flavours, chalky tannins and lively acidity.

Planted in 1983, this tiny Clos has become a classic sweet wine-producing vineyard with perfect conditions to encourage noble rot. This is a deliciously rich and opulent wine already showing barley sugar, honey and apricot flavours together with great minerality. All the elements have come together in perfect harmony and there is a wonderful balance and delicacy promising great ageing potential. Drink 2008-2050. (This wine will be shipped in 2008).

This Pinot Gris comes from Clos Windsbuhl, a terraced limestone & clay vineyard, which by many is considered to be producing Zind Humbrecht's greatest wines. The 2007 vintage displays toasty characteristics, tea leaves, chalk and plenty of fruit flavours. The finish is dry, long, intense and complex.

This steep sloped, marl and gypsum sun-trap consistently produces one of the regions most emphatic Pinot Gris, never more so than in 2006 where despite trickier conditions Olivier selected a miniscule crop to deliver a 50% botrytised beauty, complete with brilliant quince, beeswax, apricot notes on the nose and a perfectly poised, finely textured honey and nectarine palate. Fabulous! At 114 grams of residuel sugar, a pudding in its own right.
(David Berry Green ) Compelling and rich without ever being cloying, this late harvest wine shows all the benefits of extended hang time on the vine. Opulent Pinot Gris floral and fruit aromas on the nose foretell of things to come. The first burst of nectarine and quince segue shamelessly into rich, honied apricots with not a hint of the stickiness often associated with such things. With time in the mouth the minerality of this wonderful vineyard, Clos Jebsal, shows through and keeps things fresh, the flavours linger into the best greengage confit you've never imagined, until this point! I can very happily hold this up as the finest example of winemaking I've seen from Alsace in 2006. Drink with Gooseberry fool, anything containing stewed fruit, or rather surprisingly, a big handful of lightly salted nuts!
(Rob Whitehead, London Shop, January 2011)

Showing a harmonious combination of smoke and flint flavours with hints of white fruit on the nose, the 2007 Pinot Gris Rangen is delectably balanced. This intricate wine inundates the palate with flavours of peaches, honey and poached pears. Sweetness shines through on the palate, but thanks to its vibrant acidity, it blends in very quickly. Pinot Gris Rangen should evolve and drink well for 15 years.

Vendange Tardive is a quality classification for Alsace wines that signifies a later harvest with greater-than-usual concentration of natural sugars. This has a discreet nose, like many Jebsal, the heavy marl soil shuts the wine down in its youth but this will improve with further ageing. This is a gorgeous honeyed wine with lots of fruits such as melon, peach and orange. Full bodied, sweet and unctuous. You must try this VT, even more so since there was no Selection de Grains Noble (SGN) made in 2012, meaning that all of the best late harvest fruit went into this wine.
Laura Atkinson-Godwin, Private Account Manager

Clos Jebsal is a single vineyard in Turkheim (1.3 ha), Alsace. The first written reference of Jebsal dates back to a deed of sale from the 16th century. Located on a steep escarpment, it was left abandoned until 1982 when Leonard Humbrecht finally managed to reunite all the small parcels and restore the lieu-dit to its entirety.

The name Jebsal refers to gypsum, the important geological component of this vineyard alongside a geological fault of grey marl limestone and Keuper, rich in clay. The small clos is very steep (50%) with numerous terraces facing due south which benefits from a very warm microclimate, hidden and protected from the northerly winds. The grey marl soils have good water retention capacity which prevents hydric stress, yielding wines with beautiful balanced acidities.

The wines from Clos Jebsal are discreet in their youth, often marked with flinty or smoky aromas. The expression of fruit linked to the concentration by botrytis is coaxed out with some time in bottle, a minimum of ten years is recommended to allow for the development of the true expression of Clos Jebsal.

Selection des Grains Nobles are rare due to a bunch by bunch harvest selection and minimum sugar levels. This is one step up from Vendange Tardive and offers one richness, concentration and gloriously sweet fruit flavours. Full bodied, hugely mouth-filling and thick with outstanding, complex ripe fruits and maple syrup characteristics.
Laura Atkinson-Godwin, Private Account Manager


Clos Jebsal is a single vineyard in Turkheim (1.3 ha), Alsace. The first written reference of Jebsal dates back to a deed of sale from the 16th century. Located on a steep escarpment, it was left abandoned until 1982 when Leonard Humbrecht finally managed to reunite all the small parcels and restore the lieu-dit to its entirety. The name Jebsal refers to gypsum, the important geological component of this vineyard alongside a geological fault of grey marl limestone and Keuper, rich in clay. The small clos is very steep (50%) with numerous terraces facing due south which benefits from a very warm microclimate, hidden and protected from the northerly winds. The grey marl soils have good water retention capacity which prevents hydric stress, yielding wines with beautiful balanced acidities.

Wines from Clos Jebsal are discreet in their youth, often marked with flinty or smoky aromas. The expression of fruit linked to the concentration by botrytis is coaxed out with some time in bottle, a minimum of ten years is recommended to allow for the development of the true expression of Clos Jebsal.

The Pinot Gris Réserve Personnelle is only produced in exceptional years and is a selection of the best parcels in and below the Osterberg Grand Cru, so mainly grown on limestone terroir. It is an opulent, age-worthy and gastronomic wine of great maturity and provided with a succulent fruit.

The 2013 Pinot Gris Réserve Personnelle starts very clear, subtle and elegant on the nose where delicate stony/mineral flavors are displayed. Full-bodied, very elegant and lovely piquant on the palate this millésime seems to be quite sweet in its intensity but is also piquant and provided with a racy and almost piquant acidity and structured by very fine tannins. Not as knaggy as the corresponding but with finesse and elegance. The 2013 will be in the market already in 2017 -- "at latest and earlier than we wish," says Pierre Trimbach: "Unfortunately we don’t have much to sell neither from 2013 nor from 2014. Only 14000 bottles were produced in 2013.

The long development of the wine is synonymous with its long ageing potential, 10 years and more. This highly complex, broad and voluptuous wine, retains its structure thanks to its vitality. Pair with : foie gras, lobster in sauce, poultry, white meat, and truffle dishes.
Stephan Reinhardt - The Wine Advocate, Oct 2015