Riesling Clos Ste Hune Vendanges Tardives Hors Choix
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 15 to 50 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared foie gras, aged Munster cheese, roasted duck with orange glaze
✨ Technical Specifications
Clos Ste Hune is a legendary 1.67-hectare monopole vineyard within the Rosacker Grand Cru in Hunawihr, held by the Trimbach family for over two hundred years. While Clos Ste Hune is globally renowned for its bone-dry, mineral-driven style, in exceptional years favored by botrytis, Trimbach crafts an incredibly rare Vendanges Tardives (late harvest). The 'Hors Choix' (meaning 'beyond choice') designation is reserved exclusively for the most extraordinary vintages where concentration, acidity, and noble rot reach mythical proportions. This rare nectar marries the intense, honeyed richness of late-harvest fruit with the razor-sharp, limestone-driven acidity and deep petrol-mineral complexity that defines this sacred plot of land. It is widely considered one of the most collectible and profound sweet wines on earth.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1626 in Riquewihr and later relocated to Ribeauvillé, Maison Trimbach represents thirteen generations of unyielding devotion to Alsatian viticulture. The estate spans over 60 hectares across premier terroirs along the Ribeauvillé fault line, notably in Ribeauvillé, Bergheim, and Hunawihr, where complex Muschelkalk limestone, marl, and sandstone soils intersect with a sheltered semi-continental climate. Following decades of sustainable management, Trimbach achieved official organic certification across all estate holdings and partner grower parcels in 2023. Winemaking philosophy hinges on an uncompromising pursuit of balance, tension, and gastronomic dryness: fruit undergoes gentle pressing, parcel-by-parcel temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel and neutral casks, and absolute prevention of malolactic fermentation, accompanied by patient bottle aging prior to commercial release. Celebrated worldwide for crystalline structure and ageworthiness, the house benchmarks include the monumental single-terroir Riesling Clos Sainte Hune from the Rosacker lieu-dit, the venerable Cuvée Frédéric Emile, and exquisitely sculpted Grand Cru releases such as Mandelberg and Schlossberg.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5%