Zind-Humbrecht Muscat Goldert 2017

I’m not quite sure how the cellar logistics foul-up occurred, but I seem to have ended up with two Goldert bottles back-to-back.

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Ernest Burn Riesling Goldert la Chapelle 2011

I don’t think I’ve covered this particular Burn before. It won’t take long. It’s Riesling, and you know what that tastes like.

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Bruno Sorg Pinot Gris Florimont 2016

Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, I’m ashamed to say. I looked in the holding wine cooler tonight for something to follow cook’s rainbow trout, chips and spring greens and felt a slight twinge of disappointment when I discovered this was the only bottle of white in there.

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Domaine Bruno Sorg Riesling Pfersigberg 2015

Another bottle from Sorg, and I’m astonished to find it is only the second I have opened since the walk began.

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Ernest Burn Gewurtztraminer la Chapelle 2016

Yet another bottle from Ernest Burn. I’m starting run out of things to say about these wonderful wines.

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Ernest Burn Riesling 2016

My third bottle of Burn since I started the virtual walk, following the Vendages Tardives and the Sylvaner.

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Bruno Sorg Pinot Gris Vieilles Vignes 2017. And back to Alsace again. Sorry. If Burn represents the richly flavoured wines of the region and Mader occupies the centre ground, then Sorg is at the steelier, purer end of the spectrum.

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Ernest Burn Sylvaner le Dauphin 2015. Another lusciously rich wine by Francis Burn, this time made from the workhorse grape of Alsace.

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Mader Gewürztraminer Grand Cru Rosacker 2016. As far as white wines go, Alsace is my first choice. I love the different flavours from Gewürz to Riesling and the different styles from austere to rich.

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Ernest Burn 2007 Muscat Vendages Tardives. I’ve loved Ernest Burn wines ever since first discovering them thirty years ago. Francis Burn is a winemaker of genius and manages to put an added richness in every bottle.

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