(English) Wines of the Week: Barmès-Buecher & Bolney Estate

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Barmès-Buecher 2007 Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives Steingrubler Grand Cru Alsace  94
Bolney Estate 2016 Blanc de Blancs Sussex England 90
by Ian D’Agata

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Barmès-Buecher 2007 Gewürztraminer Vendanges Tardives Steingrubler Grand Cru Alsace                                            94

Now this is a superb wine. Stellar, really, and this for a variety of reasons. First off, it’s a late harvest wine that is light and lively though sweet and luxurious. Second, because it conveys extremely well not just the grape variety (even if tasting blind, you have to really lack experience with the variety not to recognize this wine for what it is, a late harvest Gewurz) and the Steingrubler, a special Alsatian Grand Cru that gives very distinctive Gewurz wines.

Luminous pale yellow-gold. Extremely elegant, perfumed nose of candied violet, guava, mango reduction, fresh tangerine, cinnamon, cloves, lemon curd and grapefruit oil. Wonderfully pure and suave in the mouth, with floral flavours of ripe tropical fruit that though soft and creamy are also very focused and energetic. Finishes very long and clean, with magnificent clarity and cut. Even though 2007 was not known for boatloads of noble rot, this wine speaks of it as well as air-dried grapes, but does so with remarkable grace and class on both counts. Very very well done.

Situated between 230-350 meters above sea level near the town of Wettolsheim (where the Barmès-Buecher winery is located), the Steingrubler is marl-sandstone-limestone soil and subsoil that is an especially great source of remarkably good Gewurztraminer wines: not by chance, over 50% of the grand cru is planted to this variety (with the remaining half more or less evenly divided up between Pinot Gris and Riesling). That the Steingrubler is an exceptional site for Gewurz becomes apparent after you’ve tasted a few Alsace wines, because time and again you will find that, no matter which winery you are at, the Gewurzes from the Steingrubler are always singing. And so it is at Barmès-Buecher. Drinking window: 2022-2035.

 

Bolney Estate 2016 Blanc de Blancs Sussex England                        90

Bright pale straw-yellow with a thin stream of nicely persistent bubbles. White flowers, nectarine and vanilla puffs on the nose, complemented by hints of toasted walnuts. Then bright and layered, with round, glyceral, smooth-textured flavours of orchard fruit, toast and nuts. Closes long and stylish, with soft acidity and excellent length. This spent eighteen months on the lees but is much fruitier than it is leesy: this fruit-forward, uncomplicated personality, a low acid impression and just a touch of residual sugar (8 g/L) help make this sparkling wine very enjoyable on its own. 100% Chardonnay planted on highly sandstone soils from one of the United Kingdom’s first established commercial vineyards. Drinking window: 2022-2028.

 

 

Ian D'Agata

伊安·达加塔在葡萄酒领域耕耘超过30年,在葡萄酒品评、葡萄酒科研写作和葡萄酒教育等方面,都取得了杰出的成果,在葡萄酒行业和葡萄酒爱好者中,享有世界性声望。作为享誉国际的葡萄酒作家,他最近的两本著作《意大利原生葡萄品种》《意大利原生葡萄品种风土》被公认为意大利葡萄酒领域的权威著作;前者荣获2015年Louis Roederer国际葡萄酒作家大奖赛“年度最佳书籍奖”,他是唯一获此殊荣的意大利葡萄酒作家,并入选《洛杉矶时报》、《金融时报》、《纽约时报》评选的“年度葡萄酒书籍”榜单;后者被《纽约时报》和美国的Food & Wine杂志提名为年度最佳葡萄酒书籍。

Ian D’Agata has been writing and educating about wines for over thirty years. Internationally recognized as an distinguished expert, critic and writer on many wine regions, his two most recent, award winning books Native Wine Grapes of Italy and Italy's Native Wine Grape Terroirs (both published by University of California Press) are widely viewed as the "state of the art" textbooks on the subject. The former book won the Louis Roederer International Wine Awards Book of the Year in 2015 and was ranked as the top wine books of the year for the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times and the New York Times, while the latter was named among the best wine books of the year by Food & Wine Magazine and the NY Times.[:]

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