Josmeyer Riesling Le Kottabe, Alsace, France

喬士邁酒莊科塔貝雷司令白葡萄酒

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Josmeyer’s 2009 Riesling Le Kottabe smells of fresh apricot and lime, which reprise on a soft but juicy palate with invigorating suggestions of apricot fuzz, apricot kernel, and lime peel that carry into a sustained, piquant finish. Truly dry, this wine’s 13% alcohol doesn’t keep it from expressing levity and refreshment. Enjoy it over the next couple of years. Jean Meyer, his daughter Isabelle, and son-in-law Christopher Ehrhart were clearly challenged by the 2009 vintage in their efforts to obtain dry or judiciously sweet and elegant wine of the sort that is this estate’s long-term signature, but they managed to successfully tread a fine line with a great many of their bottlings – not quite all of which I had time to taste – and some wines usually offered weren’t attempted or weren’t bottled this year. Jean Meyer has never favored late harvest and his natural inclination to pick sooner in 2009 certainly did not sacrifice ripeness of flavor. The 2008 vintage was also mixed in success, a fungal overtone in certain wines bound to at best be controversial; but the most successful (principally Rieslings) outstanding and likely to age well.Importer: Terlato Wines International, Lake Bluff, IL; tel. (847) 604-8900