Domaine Agathe Bursin Sylvaner, Alsace Grand Cru, France

阿加特酒莊西萬尼半干白葡萄酒

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With classic smoky, apply, pearsy aromas of this variety, the Bursin 2004 Sylvaner comes to the palate rounded and rich yet refreshing, with brown spices and flowers adding an allure much less often encountered with this grape. (The 2004 “Eminence” bottling of Sylvaner was slightly severe despite its sweetness.) Agathe Bursin – whose inaugural vintage was 2000, prior to which her family sold their grapes to the local coop – is one of Alsace’s major emerging talents. Although this widely-traveled young viticultrice (her preferred title) farms fewer only ten acres and is already chronically sold out, she says she does not intend to increase production by more than another third, and then only over the long run. Bursin indicated she had more botrytis in 2005 than in 2004, even though she harvested quite late (and even though this is the opposite experience from that of Mure in neighboring Rouffach) because Westhalten’s clay-poor soils generally retain very little moisture.A Thomas Calder Selection (various importers), Paris; fax 011-33-1-46-45-15-29.