Zind-Humbrecht, Tokay Pinot Gris Vieilles Vignes, 1991
A chance to drink a 30-plus-year-old old-vine Alsace Pinot Gris from the region's benchmark estate, under the historic "Tokay" name that EU rules retired from the label around 2007. Zind-Humbrecht is the Alsace reference point, farmed biodynamically by Olivier Humbrecht, France's first Master of Wine. The "Vieilles Vignes" comes from old vines, and at this ripeness level Z-H Pinot Gris at this ripeness was typically dry to off-dry and richly ripe, the kind of wine that turns honeyed and savory with age rather than merely fading. This 1991, a back-vintage bottle from a private cellar, has had more than three decades to evolve, trading youthful flamboyance for honeyed, mushroomy, deeply developed complexity. Mature Alsace like this is rare and doesn't wait around, so treat it as a here-and-now pleasure.
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A chance to drink a 30-plus-year-old old-vine Alsace Pinot Gris from the region's benchmark estate, under the historic "Tokay" name that EU rules retired from the label around 2007. Zind-Humbrecht is the Alsace reference point, farmed biodynamically by Olivier Humbrecht, France's first Master of Wine. The "Vieilles Vignes" comes from old vines, and at this ripeness level Z-H Pinot Gris at this ripeness was typically dry to off-dry and richly ripe, the kind of wine that turns honeyed and savory with age rather than merely fading. This 1991, a back-vintage bottle from a private cellar, has had more than three decades to evolve, trading youthful flamboyance for honeyed, mushroomy, deeply developed complexity. Mature Alsace like this is rare and doesn't wait around, so treat it as a here-and-now pleasure.
