Sleek and racy, but with excellent polish for this high-acidity vintage, this stunning dry riesling has a wonderful interplay of creaminess with candied-lemon and herbal freshness on the medium-bodied palate. Still quite tightly wound at the bold and crisp finish. Drink or hold.

From a warm, early-ripening 1.6-hectare plot on marl limestone and pebbly soils that have been cultivated since 1996 by Trimbach, the 2021 Riesling Grand Cru Mandelberg offers a generously rich but also refined and smoky limestone bouquet with notes of ripe lemons and pineapples. On the palate, this is a generously rich yet elegant and savory, persistently saline Riesling with a long, intense and aromatic but also stimulating mineral and saline finish. Coming from a very warm site, this is a rather textural yet still elegant Riesling with 14.11% alcohol and seven grams of residual sugar backed up by 7.96 grams of rather smooth tartaric acidity. Tasted at the domaine in April 2024. Tasted again at Trimbach on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Clos Ste Hune at the beginning of November, with the same result, but this note: The 2021 Mandelberg offers a clear, precise, elegant and aromatic bouquet offering white and yellow stone fruit aromas intermingled with mineral notes. Dense, fresh and saline in the palate, this is a very aromatic and elegant, well structured and crispy Riesling with a long and intense, always fresh and aromatic finish. Natural cork.(SR)

Since 1996, the Trimbach family has owned vines in the Grand Cru vineyard of Mandelberg in the village of Mittelwihr, but it was only in the 2016 vintage that they decided to start bottling it on its own. The Riesling vines here are fifty years of age, planted on brown chalky marl soils. The 2021 Mandelberg Riesling comes in at 13.5 percent alcohol in this vintage and delivers a deep and complex bouquet of tart orange, apple, a touch of pink grapefruit, menthol, citrus peel, a fine base of soil tones and a topnote of lemongrass. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and succulent on the attack, with a superb core of fruit, fine soil signature and grip, zesty acids and a long, seamlessly balanced and complex finish. This is delicious dry Riesling. 2026-2050.