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2008 Josmeyer Riesling Le Dragon
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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim
About Josmeyer

Current proprietor, Jean Meyer, is a well-known gourmand whose wines are among the most food-friendly of Alsace: vibrant, crisp and light on their feet.

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2008 Josmeyer Riesling Le Dragon

Producer: Josmeyer
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Riesling
Origin: France
Region: Alsace

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88 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2010

($50; 11.5% alcohol, 7 g/l r.s. and 7.3 acidity) Light bright yellow. Lemon drop, honey and apricot on the slightly exotic nose. Then juicy and stony in the mouth, with brisk but harmonious acidity framing the orange and lemon fruit flavors. Tactile but not yet expansive, this fairly dense riesling is showing its serious side today.

88 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Albert Hertz, Eguisheim
About Alsace

Alsace has been almost pathologically ignored by the American wine-drinking public for generations--a real mystery in light of the great number of juicy, pure wines produced in this picture-postcard region of northeastern France.
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The Riesling grape may scare away some wine novices. In Germany, where the grape reaches its finest expression, labels hew to a rigid, abstruse set of classifications, leaving newcomers with little idea what they may be looking at. Furthermore, many wine drinkers' early experiences with sweet wines from Germany (think Blue Nun), have not been especially rewarding. We say that it's your loss if you continue to fear the...
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