Zind-Humbrecht Riesling

Zind-Humbrecht's Riesling is a white wine made from the Riesling grape. Grape guides call Riesling an aromatic white that keeps strong acidity as it ripens, and note it can be made anywhere from fully dry to sweet, so the grape name by itself will not tell you the sugar level.

Those guides describe citrus, green apple and floral notes in younger Riesling, turning to stone fruit in riper examples, and say the high acidity keeps both dry and sweet versions tasting lively. If you want to know where this bottle falls on that dry-to-sweet range, your best move in the aisle is to ask the shop or check the importer's notes, since the grape name alone will not tell you.

We do not have a shopper rating for this wine. Across the wines we track, shopper ratings run to a median of 4.71. In our September 2026 checks it ranged from $42.99 to $48.99.

Domaine Zind-Humbrecht says the present estate was established in 1959 and is run by the Humbrecht family in Turckheim, France. The family, by its own account, has made wine in Alsace since 1620.

Domaine Zind-Humbrecht farms its 42 hectares organically and biodynamically, a practice the family says lets each site's terroir show through the grape; the same minimal-intervention approach continues in the cellar, where the domaine says its wines age a minimum of six months on the spent yeast after a slow fermentation. Leadership passed to Olivier and Margaret Humbrecht in 1989, continuing the family line the domaine traces to 1620, and their son Pierre Emile joined the business in 2019. The domaine's current Riesling range spans about a dozen distinct bottlings, from village-level wines up through several named Grand Cru sites; our record does not specify which one this listing represents, so vineyard-specific numbers are left out here rather than guessed at.

Our call: worth the reach if a biodynamic Alsace domaine's own account of four centuries of family winemaking is what you are buying on; continuous cultivation since 1620 and a hands-on, minimal-intervention cellar are real reasons to trust the name on the label. Pass if you want to know exactly which vineyard is in the bottle before you spend at this level; the domaine bottles about a dozen different Rieslings, from village sites up through named Grand Crus, and our record does not confirm which one this listing represents.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.