Products tagged with Alsace

If this wine were made in northern Italy, it’d be called a ramato. A skin-contact white (so an ‘orange’ wine), but Pinot Gris skins give a more coppery color. Bold & firmly textured, with lively fruit notes of dried apricot and bing cherry, balanced by fr

Pinot Gris is actually a pink-skinned grape, so when co-fermented with Pinot Noir for 4 days the result is a…rosé? Orange wine? Ramato? Hard to say, but it’s delish. The wine is a blend of 2019 and 2020 vintages and spends over a year in stainless before

The Riesling is skin-macerated for one week, and the Gewürztraminer is direct pressed. All grapes are sourced from the Grand Cru vineyard of Zotzenberg but can’t be labeled as such since the winemaking techniques don’t follow appellation regulations.

Sourced from a tiny 0.2 hectare plot in the northernmost Grand Cru vineyard of Steinklotz, Bechtold’s ”S” (so labeled because of confusing regulations) is one of the most ethereal expressions of Alsatian Pinot Noir we’ve come across. Intense mineral, spic