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2013 Riesling, Cuvée Frédéric Emile, Trimbach, Alsace

  • White
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Riesling
Ready - mature
James Suckling
95/100
Stephan Reinhardt
92+/100
Ian D'Agata
93+/100
Product: 20138008639
2013 Riesling, Cuvée Frédéric Emile, Trimbach, Alsace

Description

In this small but high quality vintage, Trimbach’s flagship Riesling continues to set a standard against which all other dry interpretations of this fine white grape are measured. Showing a touch more evolution than recent vintages at an equivalent stage, the wine is a bright pale gold colour and builds in the glass from a slightly timid beginning to a really rather impressive whole. The fruit profile, distinctly tropical in nature is now just starting to dry out with aromas of honeycomb, hay and candied peel showing the time in bottle. The palate is dominated by quite delicious mouth filling acidity with juicy red apples and quince providing heft before a lick of salinity at the end. That a wine this good continues to be offered at the price of a middling white Burgundy, with eight years behind it and the potential to improve for a decade more, is baffling. Drink now - 2030.

Jared Ehret, Private Account Manager (July 2021)

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2013
Maturity Ready - mature
Grape List Riesling
Body Full Bodied
Producer Trimbach

Critics reviews

James Suckling 95/100
A fabulous wine with spice, mineral, salt and dried fruits. Hints of pear and dried apple too. Full and layered with great depth and power. Salty. Limestone and degraded fossilized seashells. A blend of 50% Giesberg and Rosacker. This is on sale in 2020.james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (Sep 2015)
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Sep 2015)
Stephan Reinhardt 92+/100
From the south and south-east facing Ribeauvillé grands crus Geisberg and Osterberg with low-yielding vines averaging 45 years old, the 2013 Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile displays a deep, complex and very elegant bouquet of ripe, rather tropical fruit aromas along with some floral flavors. Full-bodied, juicy, round and elegant on the palate, this mineral-laced and well-structured wine indicates a firm but ripe acidity and a lingering salinity as well as an impressively pure and mineral length. Powerful and with great aging potential. In the market is still the 2009 vintage whereas the earliest date of release of the 2013 is 2018Drink 2018 - 2035Stephen Reinhardt, Wine Advocate (Oct 2015)
Stephan Reinhardt, RobertParker.com (Oct 2015)
Ian D'Agata 93+/100
Bright straw-green. White peach and mint aromas are complicated by delicate herbs and chlorophyll on the enticing nose. Intensely flavored and deep, conveying a saline freshness to the stone fruit and herb flavors. Finishes pliant and long, with firm minerality and a suggestion of gingery spices. This Frédéric Emile is more influenced by the Geisberg than the 2014; it's more showy and concentrated than the 2014 Frédéric Emile but perhaps less refined. It'll be great fun to compare these two FE's side by side in ten years time.Drink 2022 - 2045Ian d’Agata, Vinous.com.com (Feb 2016)
Ian D'Agata, Vinous.com (Feb 2016)

About this wine

Riesling

Riesling's twin peaks are its intense perfume and its piercing crisp acidity which it manages to retain even at high ripeness levels.
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Trimbach

The House of Trimbach was established in 1626 and is now being run by the 12th generation of the family, Pierre and Jean. The family supervises all operations from planting and vinification to selection and bottling, giving them 100% control over production. If Zind Humbrecht produces wines of extravagant power at one end of the spectrum of excellence within Alsace wine making, then Trimbach definitely stands at the other extreme – “Restraint” is the watchword. The Trimbach style is paraphrased perfectly by Hubert Trimbach and the family itself – “Concentrated not heavy; fruity, not sweet; bracing rather than fat; polite rather than voluptuous". Trimbach wines are reserved, steely, elegant, even aristocratic; never obvious or flashy. "We are Protestants. Our wines have the Protestant style – vigour, firmness, a beautiful acidity, lovely freshness. Purity and cleanness, that’s Trimbach.” For those weary of the copious residual sugar found in so many of the contemporary Alsace wines, Trimbach’s are a refuge.
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