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IMG_0171Like many tourists, I bought this wine in the village shop in Scherwiller, just like that, without any special knowledge, neither of the winery nor of the wine. It was meant as an aperitif on our current Alsace trip. On this trip through Alsace, it was less about special wines (we did enjoy those in the evening, too!) and more about the culture, the landscape and of course especially the vineyards (the landscapes), along the more than 100 kilometer long wine road through Alsace. I will report on this in my column at www.wein-plus.eu. Here, it's only about this one Riesling as a coincidental "image" of the "Vin d'Alsace" - the common denomination of origin of Alsace wines without a specific site. The "image" can exist, it can hold its own, even in competition with the famous German Rieslings. It is mineral (at least more mineral than most Rieslings I know), decidedly dry, round, no frippery, racy and fresh. Riesling lovers will ask: So what, so many good, dry Rieslings are like that - so nothing out of the ordinary! But, I mean, all the Rieslings from Alsace that I have just tasted are consistently different from those from "ennet dem Rhin", from Germany Robert Haag ScherwillerWhy? How different? It is quite difficult - without greater experience - to put this into words. It is above all the minerality that stands out even in a simple Riesling - like this one: stony, one is tempted to say, rocky, but not angular, also slightly salty, storing warmth, apparently the way one imagines stones - which one cannot eat, let alone drink - to taste. Hardly anyone has ever sucked on stones and certainly not perceived "stone aromas". And yet, people talk about minerality all the time - especially with Alsatian Riesling. I'm no exception: in addition, I perceive something like lime blossom, quince, caraway and aniseed, just as clichés that come to my nose, palate and mind with some of the sensory interpretations. Perhaps the landscape, the nature with all the smells and aromas and all the experiences are mixed with this "other" wine, so much so that I can no longer separate the impressions from each other. I think I can settle on the one term, though: Harmony. The wine is so harmonious that you really believe it could only have come from vines in this landscape, in this soil, from this site. The bouquet is lost in the landscape and the landscape in the bouquet, mostly gentle and expansive, but often steep and tight. Thereby, this "simple" Riesling is probably still far away from what the Grand Crus can offer

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