Domaine Weinbach "Cuvée Ste. Catherine" Pinot Gris Grand Cru 2019 Alsace - France

97 points James Suckling

If you’ve never tasted a great Alsace pinot gris, here is the place to start! All the richness and creaminess we expect from this category, but married to lively acidity and pristine clarity. We love the super ripe pear bouquet with hints of exotic fruit and flowers. No perceptible tannins and still dry enough at the delicately spicy and mineral finish to be food-flexible. Drink or hold.  (11/2020)

91 points John Gilman

The grapes used for the Cuvée Ste. Catherine bottling of Pinot Gris from Domaine Weinbach hail from the lower sections of the Grand Crus of Schlossberg and the Clos des Capucins- both planted to old vines, as well as a few younger vine parcels from the Grand Cru of Marckrain, with all of the vineyards farmed biodynamically. The wine is fermented and aged in old oak casks and the 2019 Cuvée Ste. Catherine comes in at 14.5 percent octane. It offers up a deep and youthful nose of peach, a hint of papaya, orange zest, a lovely base of soil tones, lemongrass and a topnote of orange blossoms. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and plush on the attack, with a lovely core of fruit, sound framing acids, a touch of residual sweetness and a long, complex finish that shows just a wisp of backend heat. Good juice, but it seems likely to drink best in its relative youth. 2021-2027+ (9/2021)