Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai curry, Munster cheese, roasted duck
✨ Technical Specifications
Domaine Zind Humbrecht's classic Gewurztraminer is a masterful expression of Alsace's most flamboyant grape variety. Sourced from biodynamically farmed vineyards around Turckheim, where warm gravelly and silt-rich soils allow the grape to achieve optimal phenolic ripeness, this wine is crafted with minimal intervention. The Humbrecht family's history in Alsace dates back to 1620, and their dedication to slow, indigenous yeast fermentations in traditional large oak foudres preserves the grape's intense aromatic complexity. Historically, Gewurztraminer—meaning 'spicy Traminer'—has been celebrated in Alsace for centuries, thriving under the dry, sunny rain shadow of the Vosges Mountains. This bottling captures the grape's legendary opulence, balancing rich textures with a vibrant, dry to off-dry finish that avoids the heavy oiliness often associated with lesser examples.
🍾 About the Producer
Domaine Zind Humbrecht was created in 1959 through the marriage of Léonard Humbrecht and Geneviève Zind, unifying family viticultural lineages in Gueberschwihr and Wintzenheim that trace back to 1620. Today directed by Master of Wine Olivier Humbrecht alongside his wife Margaret and son Pierre-Emile, the estate commands approximately 42 hectares across Alsace's most celebrated terroirs, including prestigious Grand Crus like Rangen de Thann, Brand, Hengst, and Goldert, alongside famed monopoles and single vineyards like Clos Saint Urbain and Clos Windsbuhl. Committed to biodynamic viticulture since 1997 with full Biodyvin and Ecocert certifications, the domaine champions intense low-yield farming, whole-cluster pressing, spontaneous indigenous yeast fermentations that often extend over many months, and protracted aging on total lees in traditional oak foudres. The benchmark wines—most famously single-vineyard Riesling, Pinot Gris, and Gewurztraminer—possess profound textural concentration, vibrant acidity, uncompromising mineral transparency, and an extraordinary capacity for prolonged cellar evolution.
🍇 Grapes
Gewurztraminer
🍷 ABV
13.5% - 14.5%