2019 Paul Blanck Pinot Blanc d’Alsace

Paul Blanck

France / Alsace / Paul Blanck

From soils of gravel, sand and south-facing clay and limestone. The juice is extracted with infinite care in our air-bag press. The slow, gentle pressing avoids crushing the stalks and pips. This is followed by slow, natural fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless-steel vats, generally lasting from four to 10 weeks.

April, 2021

Angus Hughson

Gourmet Traveller WINE

93 points.

An interesting and richer style of Alsatian pinot blanc, with ripe and exotic upfront fruit characters; aromatic custard apple and pear with a strong chalky/mineral undertow provide some aromatic backbone. It’s then dry and full flavoured with an almost creamy texture that makes it approachable, supple and delicious. It’s big and seductive for this variety, and probably best enjoyed young.

March, 2021

Gary Walsh

The Wine Front

90 points.

Apricot, honey, white flowers, pastry dough. It’s flavoursome, slick and full of ripe yellow fruit, has a little citrus twang and candied peel, pulling more savoury on the finish, offering bread dough and preserved lemon. Good wine. Versatile too. An excellent wine-by-the-glass kind of deal.

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About Paul Blanck

Blanck may be a new name for CellarHand but that’s certainly not the case in Alsace. It’s getting on for 200 years since the family established a wine business in Kientzheim. For the past 30 years, cousins Frédéric and Philippe Blanck have been in control, placing a sharp focus on the vines and the soil they grow in. The domaine has increased its holdings from 24 to 36 hectares, with five grands crus accounting for more than a third. 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, 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 1985, 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.”