2013 Paul Blanck Pinot Blanc d’Alsace

Paul Blanck

France / Alsace / Paul Blanck

This wine sits in a range the Blancks call "Les Classiques". These are easy, accessible wines made from the traditional Alsatian grape varieties. They are fruit-driven, aromatic, dry wines that give the best of themselves within the first five to seven years, if you wish to retain their primary fruit-driven personality. The screw cap closure enhances this profile and helps the wines keep both freshness and liveliness far longer. They generally come from light soils with sand and gravel as well as sandstone or clay.
Fruit for the 2013 Blanck Pinot Blanc d’Alsace was sourced from gravel, sand and south-facing clay and limestone vineyards. It was gently whole-bunch pressed before spontaneous alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel. It shows aromas of flowers, peach and apricot pits, lemon and grapefruit peel. A fresh and balanced young wine.
Pleasant, jolly, and not in the least hard or heavy, this is the ideal wine for warm asparagus or shellfish bisque, or any tasty starters - and indeed for a delicious cheesecake.

April, 2015

Jeremy Oliver

Gourmet Traveller WINE

A delightfully pure, fresh and off-dry expression of this underrated variety. Its spicy fragrance of peach, apple and lemon rind is lifted by nuances of fresh white and yellow flowers backed by dusty, faintly herbal green olive notes. It's quite juicy and viscous on the tongue with an even, vibrant presence of peach, pear and pineapple that is soft and creamy. The wine finishes long, bright and clear with a gentle, refreshing acidity, a fine chalkiness and a lingering core of fruit.

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About Paul Blanck

Originating in Austria, the Blanck family moved to the cultural melting pot that is Alsace centuries ago. It’s getting on for 200 years since this particular branch established a wine business in Kientzheim. Since the mid-1980s, cousins Frédéric and Philippe Blanck have been in control of the organic-certified estate, placing a sharp focus on the vines and the soil they grow in. They farm 24 hectares in total, with grands crus and highly prized lieux-dits accounts for more than two-thirds. Sometimes the brilliance of Alsace – its terroir and the spice, minerals, freshness and sweet fruit it delivers – gets overlooked by the wine-drinking world. There’s little chance of that happening with the Blancks around. “We wish to share with everyone the force and diversity of Alsace; the richness of the grape varieties and the joie de vivre of its people,” they say. And we’re very happy to be the ones to help them share it.

About

Along with his cousin, Philippe Blanck, Freddie took over the estate operation in the mid-1980s with a mission to create wines of pure pleasure for winelovers the world over. From the word go they have worked tirelessly to respect the vines and soil upon which they are planted. As they put it, “We wish to share with everyone the force and diversity of the Alsace ; the richness of the grape varieties and the joie de vivre of its people.”