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Josmeyer Riesling Le Kottabe Alsace 2024

Josmeyer Riesling Le Kottabe Alsace 2024

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Vibrant, Soulful, and Pure Dry Precision

The 2024 Domaine Josmeyer "Le Kottabe" Riesling is a beautifully energetic, crisp, and bone-dry white wine that captures the artistic soul of Alsace. Crafted from certified organic and biodynamic vineyards, this classic dry Riesling trades heavy sweetness for a bright, chiseled, and incredibly refreshing personality. It opens with an expressive nose of fresh lemon zest, crunchy green apple, and white orchard blossoms, grounded by a subtle hint of wet-stone minerality. On the palate, it is light-to-medium-bodied and intensely lively, delivering a mouth-watering wave of citrus freshness held together by a clean, salty, and long-lasting finish.
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Style Profile at a Glance

Attribute Profile Scale
Body Light-to-Medium, Crisp & Linear ●●●●●
Sweetness Bone-Dry (True to Josmeyer's signature dry style) ●●●●●
Acidity High, Precise & Electric ●●●●●
Fruit Fresh Lemon Zest, Tart Grapefruit & Crunchy Green Apple ●●●●●
Oak Unoaked (Fermented and aged in traditional large, old wood foudres) ●●●●●

Terroir & Biodynamic Vision

  • The Alluvial Gravel Terroir: "Le Kottabe" is sourced from estate-managed plots lying on flat alluvial plains mixed with sand, shingle, and limestone silt around Wintzenheim. This fast-warming, free-draining soil profile coaxes an immediate, elegant aromatics out of the Riesling vines, focusing on pure, high-spirited fruit rather than heavy or austere structural lines.
  • Artistry and Symbiosis: Managed by sisters Céline and Isabelle Meyer, Domaine Josmeyer has been a champion of certified organic and biodynamic viticulture since 2004. In the cellar, natural fermentations take place in historic, hundred-year-old large oak casks (*foudres*). This century-old practice softens the high acidity gently without adding any oak tannins or barrel flavors, guaranteeing maximum terroir transparency and life in every bottle.

Highlights

  • 100% Riesling estate-bottled from certified organic and Biodyvin-biodynamic vineyards in Wintzenheim, Alsace.
  • Crafted in the domain's legendary bone-dry, balanced style, making it incredibly versatile for gastronomical food pairings.
  • Aged in historic oak foudres to preserve primary fruit vibrancy and an energetic mineral texture.

Tasting Notes

  • Appearance: Pale straw-gold with clear, shimmering watery-white flashes.
  • Nose: Intensely fresh, bright, and airy. It bursts forward with clean aromas of lime blossom, tart pink grapefruit, and crunchy green orchard fruit, accented by a delicate touch of white field flowers and wet stones.
  • Palate: Completely bone-dry, light-to-medium-bodied, and linear. The entry is lively and direct, revealing a juicy center of lime pulp and tart apple skin. A precise spine of chiseled acidity cuts clean through the mid-palate, carrying the fruit into a highly refreshing, saline-flecked, and dry finish.

Serving Suggestion

  • Temperature: Serve chilled at 8–10°C. A fresh chill highlights the electric citrus profile and emphasizes the wine's thirst-quenching dryness.
  • Decanting: No decanting necessary. Pop, pour, and enjoy immediately, though it will comfortably evolve in the cellar over the next 4 to 6 years.
  • Western Pairing: Fresh goat cheese salads, pan-seared river trout with lemon, raw oysters, grilled white fish, or traditional choucroute alsacienne.
  • Asian Pairing: Steamed shrimp dumplings (蝦餃), classic vegetable tempura, light sashimi plates, or Vietnamese fresh herb summer rolls.

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