Alsace has almost the same fatal charm that Burgundy has for wine lovers everywhere. Once is enough to make you love it forever. What is so interesting about the region is that all the criticisms of its wines are inspired by its own passionate producers. Alsace was, is and will be a field of "battles" and contrasts. Just as its terroir is.
So in an Alsace where producing labels based on a single varietal is the norm, for over 40 years the Marcel Deiss winery has been producing its top wines from varietal blends. In fact, when we talk about blends we are talking about field-blended varieties, (field-blends) following a practice that finds its roots in earlier times in the region. This was the missing link for Jean-Michel Deiss to perfectly capture the terroir of Alsace. So when, on the occasion of an old vineyard in the stunning grand cru Schoenenbourg that he found as an inheritance, he discovered that it was planted with different varieties, he began to replant their vineyards in field-blends.
But the region's "troublemaker" didn't leave the Alsace classification system alone either. He broke Alsace's tier system into four, following the logic of Burgundy, believing that some grand cru were so big that they didn't live up to their value, and named some of his top vineyards as premier cr
