Bright golden-tinged straw-yellow. Enticing nose of yellow apple, mirabelle , crystallized ginger and white flowers, complicated by lemony minerality. Dense, fresh and juicy, displaying outstanding sugar-acid balance and an opulent mouthfeel that is nicely lifted by penetrating notes of mirabelle , lime, wet stones, lemon peel and almond. While this enters sweet, it finishes very clean and dry. Boasts one of the most fragrant, prettiest and most forward noses I recall in a young CSH.

Bottled with 11 grams per liter of residual sugar, the 2015 Riesling Clos Ste Hune shows clear, dense, ripe and concentrated apricot fruit on the nose. After almost nine years in the bottle, this is round, intense and powerful on the palate yet enormously salty and always elegant. It is an extremely generous Riesling, perhaps not as effortless as the 2019 Clos Ste Hune but always elegant and balanced. This is a dense, intense and powerful, long-lasting and complex Riesling from the Rosacker, for which you should have a lot of patience. Tasted at the Auberge de l'Ill in November 2024.