Trimbach Riesling Mandelberg 2021

The 2021 Riesling Mandelberg Grand Cru has a shy, waxy nose, with ripeness that suggests the wax on citrus peel, rich but bright and fruity. Once the wine warms a little, the citrus charm appears. The palate delivers citrus, ripe, tangerine tingles on a buffered palate that is just so aromatic. The astringency of citrus pith lends even more poise, and that tingling, aromatic, arresting nature of fragrant zest magic is on full display here. The 2021 finishes long and perfumed with a beguiling spray of white pepper. (Bone-Dry)

From a warm, early-ripening 1.6-hectare plot on marl limestone and pebbly soils that have been cultivated since 1996 by Trimbach, the 2021 Riesling Grand Cru Mandelberg offers a generously rich but also refined and smoky limestone bouquet with notes of ripe lemons and pineapples. On the palate, this is a generously rich yet elegant and savory, persistently saline Riesling with a long, intense and aromatic but also stimulating mineral and saline finish. Coming from a very warm site, this is a rather textural yet still elegant Riesling with 14.11% alcohol and seven grams of residual sugar backed up by 7.96 grams of rather smooth tartaric acidity. Tasted at the domaine in April 2024. Tasted again at Trimbach on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Clos Ste Hune at the beginning of November, with the same result, but this note: The 2021 Mandelberg offers a clear, precise, elegant and aromatic bouquet offering white and yellow stone fruit aromas intermingled with mineral notes. Dense, fresh and saline in the palate, this is a very aromatic and elegant, well structured and crispy Riesling with a long and intense, always fresh and aromatic finish. Natural cork.