Clos Jebsal Pinot Gris Vendanges Tardives
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Foie gras, Roquefort or other intense blue cheeses, and classic pear tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Clos Jebsal vineyard is a tiny, steep, south-facing monopole of Domaine Zind Humbrecht, located in Turckheim. Its unique terroir is defined by deep grey marl and gypsum-rich soils, which retain moisture exceptionally well. This microclimate makes Clos Jebsal highly susceptible to noble rot (Botrytis cinerea), allowing the estate to produce legendary late-harvest wines almost every year. The Pinot Gris Vendanges Tardives from this site is a masterclass in balance, where intense concentration, honeyed sweetness, and smoky complexity are perfectly counterbalanced by a vibrant, mineral-driven acidity born from the gypsum soils.
🍾 About the Producer
Domaine Zind Humbrecht was created in 1959 through the marriage of Léonard Humbrecht and Geneviève Zind, unifying family viticultural lineages in Gueberschwihr and Wintzenheim that trace back to 1620. Today directed by Master of Wine Olivier Humbrecht alongside his wife Margaret and son Pierre-Emile, the estate commands approximately 42 hectares across Alsace's most celebrated terroirs, including prestigious Grand Crus like Rangen de Thann, Brand, Hengst, and Goldert, alongside famed monopoles and single vineyards like Clos Saint Urbain and Clos Windsbuhl. Committed to biodynamic viticulture since 1997 with full Biodyvin and Ecocert certifications, the domaine champions intense low-yield farming, whole-cluster pressing, spontaneous indigenous yeast fermentations that often extend over many months, and protracted aging on total lees in traditional oak foudres. The benchmark wines—most famously single-vineyard Riesling, Pinot Gris, and Gewurztraminer—possess profound textural concentration, vibrant acidity, uncompromising mineral transparency, and an extraordinary capacity for prolonged cellar evolution.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Gris
🍷 ABV
11.5% - 13%