Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, Single Vineyard Pinot Gris 'Clos Windsbuhl', 2024
Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, Single Vineyard Pinot Gris 'Clos Windsbuhl', 2024
- 75cl
- 12.8%
- White Still
- Pinot Gris
- Organic
- Biodynamic
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Optimal drinking window: 2028 - 2055
Olivier Humbrecht's Clos Windsbuhl is one of Alsace's most revered vineyards, and this 2024 Pinot Gris shows exactly why we get excited about single-vineyard Alsace. The Humbrechts have been farming biodynamically for decades, and their mastery shows in wines that capture both power and grace.
This is Pinot Gris with real backbone - expect honeyed stone fruit wrapped around a core of limestone minerality, with the kind of intensity that only comes from low yields and old vines on exceptional terroir. Ready to drink now but built to evolve gracefully until 2038.
What the critics say:
"The 2024 Pinot Gris Clos Windsbuhl is tender and restrained on the nose, showing supple citrus with an edge of lovely, tart pear. The palate is utterly strait-laced, clean-cut, bright, lemony and vivid, not at all like your usual Pinot Gris but much more linear, zestier and straighter. The finish is a wonderfully pure tone of lemon. (Bone-dry)"
Clos Windsbuhl sits on south and southeast-facing slopes with deep limestone and marl soils over sandstone bedrock. At 250-300 metres elevation, the vineyard benefits from excellent drainage and sun exposure whilst retaining freshness. The limestone provides the wine's characteristic mineral backbone, whilst the marl adds richness and complexity. These soils, combined with the vineyard's natural amphitheatre shape, create ideal conditions for slow, even ripening.
Alsace Grand Cru regulations allow only the region's finest vineyard sites to carry single-vineyard designations, with strict yield limits and quality requirements. Clos Windsbuhl, whilst not officially a Grand Cru, is widely recognised as equivalent quality and demonstrates the precision and terroir expression that defines great Alsace. Unlike many wine regions, Alsace focuses on varietal character enhanced by specific vineyard sites rather than blending traditions.
The 2024 vintage in Alsace delivered exactly what vignerons hoped for after a string of challenging years. Spring arrived gently without late frosts, summer brought enough warmth to ripen everything properly, and crucially, September stayed dry when it mattered most. We find ourselves with one of those vintages that reminds you why Alsace sits where it does, tucked against the Vosges mountains with just enough protection to let the grapes ripen slowly and completely.
What landed in the cellars shows remarkable purity and balance across the board. The Rieslings have that crystalline precision we love, with acidity that cuts like a laser but never shouts about it. Gewürztraminer managed to be expressive without turning into perfume, while Pinot Gris struck that perfect middle ground between richness and freshness that makes you reach for another glass. These wines are drinking beautifully now if you fancy them young and bright, but the best will reward patience until 2030 and beyond.
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