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Domaine Léon Boesch Riesling - Les Grandes Lignes

Name: Domaine Léon Boesch Riesling - Les Grandes Lignes
Brand: Leon Boesch
SKU: 17537
Price: 24.0 GBP
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Producer Leon Boesch

Country France

Region Alsace

Tasting Notes

Lime, White Peach, Verbena and Wet Stone

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More About Domaine Léon Boesch Riesling - Les Grandes Lignes

From 25-year-old vines planted in sandstone-clay soil above a limestone bedrock, this Riesling comes from a long row on an east-facing hillside. It is dry with great body and offers a lovely drinking experience.

Matthieu and Marie Boesch are the 11th generation to manage the domaine, which has been in their family since 1640. Matthieu returned in 1999 to work alongside his father, Gérard, experimenting in the cellar and transitioning to biodynamic viticulture. Their vineyards have since become a haven for local wildlife, with birds nesting, bees building hives, and fawns taking naps in the shadows of their vines. In the cellar, the pressing process is long and slow, taking 8 to 12 hours. Indigenous yeasts are used, and malolactic fermentations occur spontaneously, without the addition of sulfur to block the process.

Meet the Producer, Leon Boesch

Leon Boesch

Style: Winery

Alsace can produce some of the most unfairly overlooked white wines in Europe, partly because people still assume Gewürztraminer automatically means liquid potpourri. Domaine Léon Boesch offers a fairly convincing argument against that.

The estate sits in the Vallée Noble near Soultzmatt, where the Boesch family have been farming since the 1600s. Matthieu and Marie Boesch now run the domaine biodynamically, working vineyards around the Zinnkoepflé Grand Cru with a focus on dry, mineral wines rather than the sweeter Alsace styles many drinkers still expect.

That freshness is what really defines the wines. Rieslings are tense, saline and stony, often with grapefruit, citrus peel and a slightly smoky mineral edge. The Gewürztraminer bottlings somehow manage to keep all the grape’s floral spice while avoiding the usual heaviness. There’s ginger, lychee, rose petal and exotic fruit, but held together with acidity and restraint. Which feels almost suspiciously competent given how chaotic Gewürztraminer can become elsewhere.

The vineyard work here is serious without feeling dogmatic. Biodynamics, low sulphur and long slow pressing are all part of the approach, but the wines don’t taste like experiments. They taste precise. Even the Pinot Noir has a crunchy, lifted character that feels very Alsace rather than Burgundy cosplay.

Alsace itself plays a huge role in all this. Rain-shadow climate from the Vosges mountains, complex limestone and sandstone soils, plenty of sunshine and cool nights. It gives the wines intensity without losing tension. Proper food wines too. Particularly if cheese is involved, which frankly should be assumed.