Details
Producer: Domaine in Black
Vintage: 2023
Variety: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Country: France
Region: Alsace
Terroir: Clay, Sandstone
Farming: Organic
Fining/Filtration: None
Added SO2: None
ABV: 11%
Description
Former social worker Lambert Spielmann has been farming just over two hectares in and around the commune of Epfig since 2017. A sensitive farmer and a meticulous winemaker, we have grown to love Lambert’s wines for their delicious and thrilling fruit, balance and precision, and harmony of texture.
We have also enjoyed seeing the way these wines so faithfully reflect vintage conditions over the past few years. Stylistically, 2022 has proven to be a very balanced year. There are elements of the more austere, mineral and structured 2020 and 2021 vintages, with their cool conditions and thick skins, but in 2022 this is balanced well by more generous, concentrated, physiologically ripe fruit on the mid-palate.
This cuvee comes from a 40-year-old-parcel planted over sandstone in Reichsfeld and is mostly direct-press pinot gris, with pinot gris and pinot noir co-fermented as whole bunches making up the balance, resulting in what is essentially a white wine with a very light blush. With fruity aromatics of ripe pear and green apple, it drinks as a fairly classical Alsace pinot gris, albeit perhaps with a touch more tension and freshness.
Details
Producer: Domaine in Black
Vintage: 2023
Variety: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Country: France
Region: Alsace
Terroir: Clay, Sandstone
Farming: Organic
Fining/Filtration: None
Added SO2: None
ABV: 11%
Description
Former social worker Lambert Spielmann has been farming just over two hectares in and around the commune of Epfig since 2017. A sensitive farmer and a meticulous winemaker, we have grown to love Lambert’s wines for their delicious and thrilling fruit, balance and precision, and harmony of texture.
We have also enjoyed seeing the way these wines so faithfully reflect vintage conditions over the past few years. Stylistically, 2022 has proven to be a very balanced year. There are elements of the more austere, mineral and structured 2020 and 2021 vintages, with their cool conditions and thick skins, but in 2022 this is balanced well by more generous, concentrated, physiologically ripe fruit on the mid-palate.
This cuvee comes from a 40-year-old-parcel planted over sandstone in Reichsfeld and is mostly direct-press pinot gris, with pinot gris and pinot noir co-fermented as whole bunches making up the balance, resulting in what is essentially a white wine with a very light blush. With fruity aromatics of ripe pear and green apple, it drinks as a fairly classical Alsace pinot gris, albeit perhaps with a touch more tension and freshness.
