Riesling Selection de Grains Nobles
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Foie gras, blue cheeses such as Roquefort, and classic fruit tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Maison Trimbach's Riesling Selection de Grains Nobles represents the absolute pinnacle of Alsatian sweet winemaking, produced only in exceptional vintages when weather conditions allow for the perfect development of Botrytis cinerea (noble rot). While Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris are more common candidates for this style, Riesling SGN is incredibly rare due to the grape's late-ripening nature and thick skins, which resist rot. Trimbach's signature style—characterized by structural tension, pristine acidity, and mineral drive—shines through the intense concentration of this elixir. The grapes are painstakingly harvested by hand in multiple passes ('tries successive') to select only the most perfectly shriveled, botrytized berries. The resulting wine is a masterclass in balance, where luscious sweetness is perfectly countered by a vibrant, electric beam of acidity, offering complex notes of candied citrus, honeyed apricot, ginger, and petrol.
🍾 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
100% Riesling
🍷 ABV
8-10%