Domaine Borès - Alsace Rêve de Pierres 2017 (moelleux)

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About wine:

From their high-altitude vineyards with schist soils, these winemakers enjoy producing sweet or dessert wines. Like this mellow yellow wine, which leaves beautiful tears on the sides of the glass. Intense and rich on the nose, it blends exotic fruits with hints of candied lemon, honey, and quince. This register, reminiscent of noble rot, is found on the palate, with beeswax to complete the palette. The texture is also superb: this wine shines with its smoothness, fullness, and sweetness, without the slightest heaviness, as the acidity of the grape variety is there to provide freshness and length. (Residual sugar: 33 g/l.)

About the estate:

South of Barr, the village of Reichsfeld is located in the mountains, at the bottom of a steep-sided valley sheltered by the Ungersberg, the highest point in the Bas-Rhin region: this is where Marie-Claire and Pierre Borès have lived since 1988. The couple cultivates their 10 hectares of vines on the steep slopes of the Schieferberg, one of the few schist terroirs in Alsace.