1993 Domaine Zind-Humbrecht Pinot Gris Clos Saint Urbain Rangen SGN Grand Cru

One of the greatest sweet white wines I have ever tasted is the 1993 Tokay-Pinot Gris Rangen Clos St.-Urbain. Made from yields of 5 hectoliters per hectare (about 200 bottles per acre), this wine possesses 13.5% alcohol and 11% residual sugar. If it doesn’t last 60 years, blame me! The orange/salmon color is followed by an amazingly rich, intense wine that tastes almost dry because of the high acidity. Like virtually everything produced at this domaine, it is a blockbuster tour de force in winemaking! This wine from Domaine Zind-Humbrecht is off the charts. There are only 50 or so cases of this wine, which takes richness, sweetness, and honeyed characteristics to unprecedented levels - at least for my palate. With respect to the recently released wines, Olivier Humbrecht stated that he had never seen such intensely ripe Pinot Gris with such high levels of acidity. The importer for the Zind-Humbrecht wines for most of the United States is Wine Markets International, Woodbury, NY; tel. (516) 364-1850, and for the state of California, Kermit Lynch Selections, Berkeley, CA; tel. (510) 524-1524.