Domaine Barmès-Buecher DOM. BARMES-BUECHER HENGST CUVEE FRANCOIS 500ML 2011
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Category | Dessert Wine |
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Brand | Domaine Barmès-Buecher |
Origin | France, Alsace |
Bright golden yellow. Starts out with an almost pungent floral quality complicating white stone fruit, mango and caramel aromas. Then rich and dense in the mouth, with fruit-dominated flavors of dried apricot, peach, passion fruit and quince. The finish is long and smooth. Roughly 70% of the berries were hit by noble rot: this was harvested around October 8th and is really an SGN in style that the family forgot to declare in time to get the official recognition allowing it to be labeled as such.
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The initially sumptuous notions of peach are quickly tinged by a more intriguing note of smoke. Honeyed notes join in before they explode on the palate into a rich, lemon-caramel flavor. This has concentration and verve and cuts its sweetness admirably, so much so that this becomes a lip-smacking tightrope walk of lush, sweet caramel and tight, spritzy lemon zest. Exciting.