Domaine Borès - Alsace Rêve de Pierres 2017 (moelleux)

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About the wine:

From their high-altitude vineyards, with their schist soils, these winemakers like to make sweet or syrupy wines. Like this mellow yellow-gold wine, which leaves beautiful tears on the sides of the glass. Intense and rich on the nose, it blends exotic fruits with hints of candied lemon, honey and quince. This noble rot-like register is echoed on the palate, with beeswax rounding out the palette. The texture, too, is superb: this wine shines with smoothness, fullness and softness, without the slightest heaviness, as the grape's acidity is there to give freshness and length. (Residual sugars: 33 g/l.)

About the domain :

To the south of Barr, the village of Reichsfeld lies in the heart of the mountains, at the bottom of a steep-sided valley sheltered by the Ungersberg, the highest peak in the Bas-Rhin region: the living environment of Marie-Claire and Pierre Borès, who settled here in 1988. The couple farms their 10 ha of vines on the steep slopes of Schieferberg, one of Alsace's rare schist terroirs.