The vintage :
 For those who love elegant, pure, well balanced wines, 2007 was a benchmark vintage. Having enjoyed the longest period of maturation of the past 25 years, the grapes were perfectly ripe and healthy with great intensity of flavours.
 2007 should prove to be a vintage to lay down the finest Alsace wines for many years.

 

In the vineyard :
 Harvested exclusively by hand from clay and limestone vineyards in a dozen of the most favoured localities in and around Riquewihr.

 

Winemaking :
 The grapes are taken in small tubs to the presses, which are filled by gravity, without any pumping or other mechanical intervention.
 After pressing, the must is decanted for a few hours, then fermented in temperature-controlled barrels or vats (at 18 to 24°C). The wine is racked just once, before natural clarification during the course of the winter. The following spring, the wine is lightly filtered just before bottling, and the bottles are then aged in our cellars until released for sale.
 The whole production of this wine is closed with DIAM  the cork without the risk of cork taint.