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2008 Domaine Bott-Geyl Riesling Les Elements
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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim

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2008 Domaine Bott-Geyl Riesling Les Elements

Producer: Domaine Bott-Geyl
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Riesling
Origin: France
Region: Alsace

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88 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2010

($20; 8.5 g/l r.s. with 8.7 acidity) Bright medium gold. Pineapple, coconut and brown spices on the nose, complicated by candied citrus peel and marzipan. Supple and ripe, but the wine's moderately sweet, slightly exotic fruit flavors are enlivened by harmonious acidity and stony, flinty and saline nuances. Here the wine's sweetness and firm acidity work nicely together.

86 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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