Wine Reviews

A rich, lushly textured style, offering bitter peach skin and orchard fruit backed by tangy acidity. Full and broad in feel, with chalky mineral notes drawing out the zingy, smoke-laced finish. This is balanced and focused, showing chamomile and flint details.

The wine bursts with vibrant, zesty citrus and green apple, underscored by mineral notes and a lovely purity. There’s great energy here, with the acidity providing a sharp, refreshing lift. The finish is long and persistent, echoing with stony, citrus-driven freshness.

The 2024 Riesling Roche Calcaire results from all the Rieslings grown on limestone across the estate, including declassified wines from the single sites, with a large portion coming from the village of Gueberschwihr supplemented by Heimbourg, Hengst and Häuserer. Flint flickers deliciously on the nose. Underneath, bright lemon zest appears with Amalfi vigor and luminosity. The palate still comes with some residual spritz that underlines the delicacy, finesse, brightness and sylph-like, pure nature of this bone-dry wine. (Bone-dry)

Subtle smokiness hints at the delicious reduction that still weaves through the wine. This is taut, lemony, long, streamlined and tightly coiled—a wellspring of freshness.

The 2022 Riesling Roche Calcaire is harvested across the limestone soils of the estate from vines that do not make it into the single vineyards. In 2022, this was restricted to the marl and limestone soils of the village of Gueberschwihr, around the Goldert Grand Cru, a site that Humbrecht calls “virtually drought proof.” The nose still flickers with yeasty funk and lovely, flinty reduction, but even this funkiness does not obscure the vibrant lemon and orange peel. The palate is fresh but so buffered, with stunning limestone smoothness wrapping itself around a central vein of bright freshness. This is lip-smacking and approachable. It’s friendly and bright already. The finish shines with a tart