2020 F E Trimbach Riesling Brand Grand Cru Alsace

(96 Points) The Trimbach Riesling Brand Grand Cru 2020 was produced from fruit grown on the Grand Cru Brand vineyard which sits above the village of Turkheim. Brand sits on steep slopes at the beginning of the Vallée de Munster and its aspect is south/southeasterly, bringing the vines excellent exposure to the sun. Its name comes from the German for fire, a reference to the legend that a dragon and the sun once did battle here and how the sun warms its fine granite soils quickly. One of the driest sites in Alsace, in 2020, a year that was affected by drought, it was feared that conditions would be too dry for the vines to produce a great wine. Trimbach’s ancient vines had sufficiently deep roots to find moisture though, and having dug deep they produced a small crop of extremely high-quality berries that were turned into another wonderful example of Trimbach Riesling.James Suckling