Bright golden-tinged dark straw. The captivating, multifaceted nose combines pear, apricot, honey, marzipan and molasses, lifted by higher notes of yellow flowers. Rich, thick and glyceral, but with an extraordinarily light touch to the yellow plum, raisin, honey and delicately spicy flavors. Finishes extremely long and nicely focused. Based on my tasting of the Schlumberger wines, this one offers a real lesson in terroir: in a hot vintage like 2015, the Pinot Gris grape obviously fared much better in the Spiegel grand cru than it did in the Kessler, a warm grand cru most years and even more so in a year like 2015 (Pinot Gris, a low-acid, thin-skinned variety that ripens fast, does not usually perform well in very hot years). This wine's back label reads ?medium-dry? on Schlumberger's four-point dry-sweet scale (which runs from dry to medium-dry to medium-sweet to sweet).

A rich note of ripe pear dominates the nose, with a hint of bitter walnut coming through on the palate. This is a very rounded, ample wine, with a streak of phenolics and lasting freshness. It carries its slight residual sweetness with ease and strikes a very convincing balance. The finish is just off dry. Drink now-2028.