Domaine Zind Humbrecht, Clos Jebsal Tokay Pinot Gris Vendanges Tardives

This wine is still awesome. golden/slightly brownish, stone fruit and honeydew melon, nice honey. No hurry on this one.

1990 vintage

Great age, golden color, sweet honey & apricot. Table favorite!

1990 vintage

Still in great shape. Deep golden color. Nice delicate sweetness. Went well with stone crabs.

1990 vintage

Light colour for age; fresh and delicately sweet nose; juicy palate, elegant sweetness, substantial bitters, lovely fruit; relatively dry finish.

1990 vintage

Scary good

1990 vintage

Cellaraid - A Night with Chef Kentaro (Shisen Hanten, Mandarin Orchard) : clear, deep bronze; clean, medium nose, of honey, toast, apricots, stewed fruits, and cedar oak; sweet, high acid, low tannins, heavy body, with toast, cedar oak, honey, and apricots; long finish; heartwarming!

1990 vintage

Dark bronze-like color. Fruity aromas of apples, marzipan, liquorice and ripe citrus. Soft and rich. Low in acidity. Has kept well, but is now over the hill.

1992 vintage

Honeys and peach. Sweet with lots of fruits. But still has good acidity.

1990 vintage

Great great wine. It's so light on its feet with great acidity and lovely hints of sweetness and floral and white fruits. Could see this being a fantastic afternoon sipper or a good apertif. Enjoyed.

1990 vintage

Zachy's Wine Auction - Winter 2014 (Smith & Wollensky (48th & 3rd Ave)) : Like it's '89 cousin, this wine was just wonderful. I got a bit of a stone fruit flavor here underneath all of the sweet and acid. Wine that would work perfectly with spicy food or just a hot afternoon in the summer, and yet seems almost too elegant for such an occasion. Beautiful.

1990 vintage

Judgement of Sydney Blind Tasting : Yellow coloured, with gold highlights starting to appear. Quince, lemon, apple and a little honey showing through on the nose. A modicum of sweetness is cleaned up nicely by a little typical Alsace bitterness. Excellent length and this must be near to its peak. Lovely.

1992 vintage

This bottle was a little more chemically intense than I remembered the last one. Butterscotch coated the palate, but it lacked a bit of acidity. Perhaps I have been conditioned by Mosel Rieslings a bit too much lately. Anyway, this has another 20 years to reach its peak. Be patient!

1991 vintage

Delicious stuff. Needed about 10 minutes after opening and pouring for the bouquet to begin to emerge, then blossomed and continued to gain for some time. Most of the recent notes of others ring true. This is luxurious but not overdone and has nice balance. I wish it had a bit more grip, but other than that, this was terrific. Everyone liked it.

1992 vintage

From 750ml. Complex nose - mango, apricot, honey, cinnamon, spice and orange peel. Superb palate, rich fruit melding seamlessly with beautifully balanced sweetness and crackling acidity. Brilliantly long and delicious. A timeless wine, such is its balance and poise.

1990 vintage

wow. multi layered, with grip -- a powerhouse.

1990 vintage

Brought by Lester. Rich, powerful nose of apricots and lots of baking spices, paraffin and wax. Really plush, but not a bit cloying or heavy. Again, not heavy on the palate - lots of apricot - very rich. Just great. The ZH TPGs are delicious wines, but tend to be heavy. This wine has all the good, with none of the bad - light on its feet, but wonderfully rich and perfumed. A real treat. Nose - 6/6, Palate - …

1990 vintage

More balanced but with sweet pears and rounded baked Peaches lifted with orange marmalade with more zest

1990 vintage

100 Year Old Champagne and Other Wonders (Kingyo, Marina Square) : Brilliant. As good as the 1990 ZH Goldert Gewurztraminer on the same flight was, this was clearly one notch up - a fine example of how good a ZH Pinot Gris can be when given enough time in the bottle. Opened a couple of hours before serving, it had a lovely nose that was classic late harvest Pinot Gris - honeysuckle and orange peel, sweet fruit oils, some nuts, …

1990 vintage

Pineapples, young mangoes and some apricot on the nose. Silky sweet apricots, dried mangoes, and preserved pineapples.

1990 vintage

Visual and olfactive notes of golden caramel mingle with battalions of peach coulis and acidity to create a near-perfect, medium-intense/medium-sweet wine that is a perfect pairing with foie gras.

1991 vintage

Not as intense as I recalled the Christmas bottle to have been. Maybe it is just too young a wine. Drinks like fruit juice though!

1991 vintage

A foie gras terrine (home made!) was a classic matching dish on this Christmas day lunch. The dish complemented the wine perfectly. I can still recall the taste five days later. Beautiful brown core color with an baked orange zest colored rim... a fresh nectarine nose (the stewed version is for the SGN!)... and a well balanced, slightly acidic still (quite youthful) on the palate.

1991 vintage

From Mag, lovely gold colour, off dry very intense apricot, honey and exotic fruit. very nice.

1992 vintage

Orange golden. Savory smoky notes on the nose with apricot, blood orange, honey, secondary at this point in time. On the palate rich with a touch of roughness on the back palate. While still retaining freshness, at this point, there is not enough acidity to balance out the weight of the wine. Lovely smoky savory notes, still excellent although at this point in time more intellectually interesting than truly wonderful. On the back end of peak. Drink up.

1991 vintage

UWS 2010-01 (@ JB) : Expressive bouquet with apricot and polishing wax. Full bodied. Sweet and elegant.

1990 vintage

Rednecks & Rhones at Greg Ellis' house. This was a treat - someone else bringing a ZH that I've only had once before and don't have any of in the cellar! Dark yellow in the glass, this immediately screamed out to me that is was from Rotenberg with a strong red clay/iron earthiness. I think it was the '92 vintage signature that I was picking up on. With time in the glass to open there's some Jebsal coming through in …

1992 vintage

Creamy and spicey in mid-'90s; yummy with lobster salad in 2002; last one was characteristically pure with exotic fruits like mango and pineapple. Like all ZHs this is a food wine; married beautifully with scallops in a basil cream sauce. I wouldn't wait any longer.

1990 vintage

Dark gold in the glass. Aromas of apricot, candied orange peel, honey and toffee. Semisweet with predominantly apricot and orange on the palate. Still quite fresh without any oxidized notes. Manages to be both intense and mellow in the same mouthful.

1991 vintage

EWG Does Syrahs Blind From Around The World (Conrad Greens Abode) : Tight expression of orange peel and dried apricots with little int eh way of sweetness. Nose carried slight oxidized notes. This took to my compatriots better than I and thought I usually love older ZH this seemed to be lacking for me.

1990 vintage

Sweet floral nose with a touch of honeysuckle. Palate is balanced and delicious. The group tended to prefer to ZH reisling below, but I really liked this one.

1990 vintage

French Bakery BYO ABC Dinner; 8/4/2008-8/7/2008 (The French Bakery, 1023 Kane Concourse, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida) : 8/7 David's wine

1990 vintage

Winner, winner. Chicken Dinner...

1990 vintage

I enjoyed this: dark amber color and a bit of an antique-y feel to it. Drink up, but a nice experience.

1990 vintage

Oh, the generosity... (Duff's Restaurant, St. Louis, MO) : Mineral / apricot nose. After all of the great wines we tasted, this did not receive quite the amount of attention it clearly deserved. I thought it was excellent, if a bit simple. The auslese earlier in the evening was about the best white wine I've had in the past year or so -- so, this just wasn't going to steal the limelight tonight. Still, very nice.

1990 vintage

Consumed from a 375mL bottle, this wine was wonderful. The wine looks very inviting in the glass with a deep golden color. The nose was of peaches , apricots and botrytis and the palate and finish followed suit. We drank this to accompany steamed lobsters and the richness of the lobster and wine paired very nicely. If only it wasn't my only bottle!

1992 vintage

Coming nicely into its own. Big and sweet, but carrying it with grace, this typifies what ZH comes up with when they pull it off right. Still very lively, it has miles to go before it sleeps.

1992 vintage

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