Schoffit Riesling Rangen Clos Saint-Theobald Grand Cru 2022

The 2022 Riesling Rangen Clos Saint Theobold Grand cru is from a parcel in the midslope of the Rangen, picked from vinesbetween 40-45 years old. The nose has immense clarity of the brightest citrus. The palate is totally taut, still raw almost, but displaying clarity, precision and wonderful concentration that tingles with all monner of citrus zest, spanning lemon, bergamot and aromatic tangerine. Exquisite density shows beautiful ripeness and serene smoothness, despite all the stone. wonderfully complete, without a touch of heat despite what Schoffit calls, rightly, a “violent warm” terroir. The 2022 is a pure wine of stone and tingling, aromatic citrus zest. (Bone dry).

The 2022 Riesling Grand Cru Rangen Clos Saint-Théobald is from 50+-years-old vines in the clos that includes the upper plots of Schoffit's regular Rangen. The nose is very pure yet very intense as well, offering the classic flintiness and iodine notes combined with fully ripe, bright, elegant and intense, spicy-scented fruit. Full-bodied, round and rich on the palate, this is a generous, powerful and textured yet always elegant and saline Riesling with some grams of residual sugar (4.1 grams per liter) yet the richness of old vines and their mineral, expression as well. This is a superb Rangen Riesling that Alexandre describes as "one of the best we ever did." The finish is in fact very long, intense and seriously structured and provided with persistent salinity. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in Colmar, November 2024.