Albrecht’s Auxerrois-dominated 2005 Pinot Blanc Reserve offers lovely tangerine zest and lime aromas, fresh, clear fruit, and considerable refinement and mineral nuance for its genre and for a wine so soft, subtly creamy and ingratiating on the palate. Would that there were more such excellent values in Alsace wine today! Jean Albrecht offers a range of negotiant wines (sparkling, and those labeled “Reserve”) as well as domaine bottlings, together with a remarkably deep range of older vintages, and none of the 2005s from his top sites had been bottled yet last Spring, nor was he willing to show them. Among numerous ambitious plans afoot here is a replanting program based entirely on selection massale from the estate’s best old vines.Importer: Pasternak Wine Imports, Harrison, NY; tel. (914) 630-8214