Cave Historique Hospices Strasbourg Riesling 2017

Hospices de Strasbourg has a 500+ year history of making Alsatian wines. Indeed, the cellar still holds a wine from 1472! As the name suggests, the property was once a refuge for pilgrims and the poor, supported by donations from wealthy benefactors. From these beginnings, the Hospices started making wine. In the 1990s, a group of top winemaking families banded together to restore the cellars. Amongst them was the Gisselbrecht family – 300 years in the business – who are responsible for this delicious wine. Each vintage, a blind tasting is held to choose the finest example of each grape from the harvest. The Willy Gisselbrecht Riesling held that honour in 2017, a year that produced a small, but high quality, crop. Delicious now or cellar.