Alsace Blanc, Kuentz-Bas - 2022

Name: Alsace Blanc, Kuentz-Bas
Brand: Kuentz-Bas
SKU: 33085
Price: 16.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 33085 750mL

This white wine blend comes from a 2 hectare plot planted in a mix of silt, loess and limestone-based soils. Lively on the palate with great aromatics and fresh mineral. The Kuentz family was first established in the 18th Century. It was through marriage that this family united with the Bas family in 1895.

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Color

White

Vintage

2022

Country

France

Region

Alsace

Producer

Kuentz-Bas

Grape Variety

Sylvaner

Muscat

Pinot Auxerrois

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

New splashy label, same old Kuentz-Bas. A kitchen sink blend of Auxerrois, Sylvaner, Riesling, Muscat, and Gewürztraminer, this wine is like a prog-rock supergroup reuniting for a greatest hits tour but without hollow promises to retire at the conclusion. And who would want them to, anyway? Kuentz-Bas, along with peers Trimbach and Zind Humbrecht, has been a leading light in Alsace in making rich, dense, opulent, and completely heady wines for generations. This bottle is a perfect entry-level example of the region’s hallmark style, with very ripe fruit taking the lead and backed up by boisterous floral aromas and enough acidity to contain a touch of some residual sugar. But where it starts to veer into sweetness, it's balanced by pithy citrus and lychee, and a lightly bitter quality on the finish.

- JA

Glossary

Alsace

Located on the eastern border of France, on the west bank of the Upper Rhine, adjacent to Germany and Switzerland, Alsace represents the intersection of two wholly different wine cultures that have given birth to a third. Once part of the Holy Roman Empire, Alsace was gradually put under French sovereignty during the 17th Century and eventually made one of the provinces of France. Yet, as evidenced by the persistece of a dialect of Upper German in the region even today, Alsace's ties to Germany...

Auxerrois

Auxerrois is the name of a low-acid white grape widely planted in Alsace, as well as in Germany and Luxembourg. It is also the name used for the black Malbec grape in Cahors, where it is the principal wine grape. The list goes on: Pinot Gris is known as "Auxerrois Gris" in Alsace, and at one time Chardonnay was called "Auxerrois Blanc" in the Moselle region (though this last term fell into disuse after Chardonnay's huge boom in popularity). Alsatian Auxerrois is used in Crémant d'Alsace, and in...