2012 Bernhard Huber - Spatburgunder Bombacher Sommerhalde GG
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The 2012 Sommerhalde Spätburgunder GG is intense yet also refined and elegant on the fine and concentrated nose thanks to small berries as a result of the coolish flowering. Summer was warm and quite wet, but the harvest was rather late and cool, though. Silky, refined and intense on the palate, this is a full-bodied, tight and intense, very mineral and saline Sommerhalde with a long, pure, fresh and saline finish. It is impressive yet still very young. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in October 2023.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Concentrated plum hue with bright purple rim. We have had minerality, fruit and power in Huber’s other three Grosse Gewächse. The Bombacher literally excels in the field, or to be more precise, meadow, with herbs and hay evoking associations of a warm Indian summer. Sweet cherries and mouthwateringly juicy plums deliver plenty of fruit, barriques donate tasteful notes of cloves and cedar, firm tannins and an assertive acidity complete a solid structure. The poor man’s Wildenstein, not so much in taste, but in terms of value for money. (MS)