Schlossberg ça Gazouille 2020 75cl

Appellation: AOC Alsace Grand Cru

Grape varieties: Riesling

Soil: The Schlossberg, or Feudal Mountain, is a majestic south-facing hillside, laid out in small dry-stone terraces, overlooked by a magnificent castle. Soil of migmatic granite, sandy, poor and superficial. Climate very contrasting, hot during the day and cool at night, due to the winds coming from the Vosges.

Culture: Biodynamic

Label: Organic (Ecocert), Vin Méthode Nature

Harvest: Manual with sorting

Vinification: Natural fermentation, without the addition of yeast or chaptalization. Direct pressing, for 12 hours, in a pneumatic press. Transferred directly into barrels, without settling. Natural aging for 18 months in century-old oak tuns, in our new bioclimatic cellar, made of pink sandstone from the Vosges and Douglas fir from our valleys. Terroir that produces fine and delicate wines, not to be aged for too long in tuns, but which rather require bottle aging. Bottled without filtration, directly from the barrel, in the waning moon.

Sweetness: Dry

Alcohol content: 13%

Serving temperature: 10°C

Cellaring potential: 40-100 years

The place name of Schlossberg (castle hill) was identified as early as the 14th century: at that time, land transaction documents already referred to it. From the end of the 19th century, Schlossberg wines were sold in bottles from the Rhine. In the 20th century, recognition of the site, and then of the Grand Cru, took place in several decisive stages: first in 1928, the winegrowers established harvest rules by means of a written agreement. This unprecedented approach also earned Schlossberg the distinction of being the first place name, and the only one at the time, to benefit in 1975 from the official Alsace Grand Cru appellation. This agreement was then enshrined by the 1992 decree, definitively attesting to its identity as a Grand Cru.