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Facing such a great terroir you can only stand in awe and respect. The effort to minimize interventions is aimed at enhancing the potential of the old vineyards. They seem to unfold their "memories" in the wine, giving great complexity and absolute balance. Without excesses, but full-bodied and rich, with charmingly ripe fruit along with multiple aromatic...
Malvasia de Colares, which is genetically different from other varieties bearing the same name, is planted on the region's characteristic sandy soils with great care and effort to protect it from the strong, salt-laden Atlantic winds. In the cool coastal climate, alcohol is always restrained in these wines and the character is full of umami salinity and...
A "hegemonic" in character grand cru that will stand without any complexity against a great Montrachet of Burgundy. Field blend of Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Meunier, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Beyrot with a high planting density, higher than all the other Deiss vineyards. The cultivation is certified organic and biodynamic and the vinification is done by whole...
Next to Marcel Deiss's sensational grand cru in which the message of the place goes beyond the winemaker and the year, in a take-off of the concept of terroir, a "humble" village like Alsace Zellenberg is not only humble. The village and its characteristics offer a flavor context, a signature, which the Deiss winery graciously comes to endorse, and which...
All 13 varieties of Alsace with 50% of the blend being Riesling. Soft but with some "angles" at the same time and a dense texture. Perfectly balanced, a fantastic wine for spicy salmon tartare, with Athenian fish but also fried foie gras. Old-school vinification, whole bunch fermentation, spontaneous fermentation and contact maturation for 12 months...
Grapes purchased from different vineyards in the region always with the principles of organic farming which Vanessa Cherruau vinifies with absolute care and the philosophy of low intervention. The wine is vinified by spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel tanks and matured for 9 additional months in them giving a wine of exceptional immediacy, for...
