Winery Albert BoxlerVendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg'
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).
The Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg' of the Winery Albert Boxler is in the top 60 of wines of Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg'.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg' of Winery Albert Boxler in the region of Alsace often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, citrus or apples and sometimes also flavors of peach, minerality or apricot.
Food and wine pairings with Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg'
Pairings that work perfectly with Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg'
Original food and wine pairings with Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg'
The Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg' of Winery Albert Boxler matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of the garbure, tuna, pepper and tomato quiche or cicadas at the chib.
Details and technical informations about Winery Albert Boxler's Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg'.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Vendanges Tardives Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg' from Winery Albert Boxler are 2005, 2004, 2011, 2009 and 2008.
Informations about the Winery Albert Boxler
The Winery Albert Boxler is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 43 wines for sale in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Sommerberg'
Grand Cru of Niedermorschwihr and Katzenthal in the Haut-Rhin (very steep south-facing slope up to 45°, altitude up to 400 m at the foot of the Trois-Épis, two-mica Turckheim granite, unique mineral granitic sands). Riesling is the signature white — intensely mineral and racy with notes of mint, verbena, citrus and aromatic herbs, taut aromatic complexity. Powerful and elegant, built for long ageing, characteristic freshness; benchmark Alsatian Riesling.
The wine region of Alsace
Capital of great French aromatic whites, most often dry and single-varietal. Straight, mineral Riesling (lemon, gunflint), opulent, exuberant Gewurztraminer (lychee, rose, spices), round, smoky Pinot Gris, floral, crisp Muscat, supple Pinot Blanc. Fine, fruity Crémants d'Alsace, exceptional sweet Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles. 15,500 ha at the foot of the Vosges on varied soils, 51 Grands Crus since 1975.
The word of the wine: Thinning out
Operation consisting in eliminating the suckers that grow on the vine stocks.
