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White Alsace - 1959


Ah, this year 1959! In the family of the wine grower Paul Blanck, he(it) is historic. As he(it) was certain - rightly - to hold the year there of the century, the grandfather had kept(preserved) a stock at the bottom of his cellar. " For my funeral ", he assured(insured). However, the come day and in the panic dress rehearsal, nobody thinks of these bottles, nor, especially, knows where they are. If it is not Frédéric, then a little boy, of whom nobody thinks even of asking the question and which is well careful not to give the answer. " Result(profit), we drank it during years! " He(it) laughs today. The anecdote confirms unquestionably the proverb of the wine grower ligérien Jules Fribault: " it is necessary to drink the wine in his lifetime, because when we died he(it) has a taste of pear! " Dead at the age of 91, ila took time to sample the life. In the domain Weinbach, the gewurztraminers of the year borders on the immortality. Gilded(bronzed) without being amber, they lose in softness what they gain(win) in mineral. Balanced and evoking the quince, they still seem far from their highlight.
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