Very pale gold. An almost explosive perfume leads to a palate that combines this variety’s hallmark preserved fruit and floral characters with mineral complexity. So elegant and refined. "Very rich and sweet and almost oily. Lots of residual sugar. Not ridiculously expensive. A good value version of the style. Long. 16.5/20" - Jancis Robinson MW on www.jancisrobinson.com, 2nd Dec 2011. Now-2015

Product Code: KIE209

Quiet and thoughtful Eric Kientzler maintains the distinct house style here. He picks early, and performs a rigorous sorting of the grapes so no poor or botrytis-affected grapes get into the vats. As a result, the wines are all startlingly clear in colour, offer up deliciously fresh scents, and are very pure and dry with moderate alcohol. It’s all about understated grace and finesse here. There’s a wide range of wines, as befits the matching of varieties to the complex and diverse soils in the vineyards on the rolling hills around Ribeauvillé.