Heimbourg Pinot Gris Vendanges Tardives
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared foie gras, blue cheeses such as Roquefort, and classic French pear tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Heimbourg vineyard, situated on a steep, southwest-facing hillside in Turckheim, is renowned for its complex Oligocene limestone soils. This unique terroir, combined with the warm microclimate, allows Pinot Gris to achieve optimal ripeness while retaining a vibrant, structural acidity. Under the meticulous biodynamic stewardship of Domaine Zind Humbrecht, the grapes for this Vendanges Tardives (late harvest) bottling are left on the vine to develop noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). This natural concentration process yields a wine of breathtaking complexity, where rich, honeyed textures are balanced by a profound mineral backbone. The history of Heimbourg is deeply tied to the geological shifts of the Rhine Valley, resulting in a soil that coaxes an exotic, smoky, and highly age-worthy expression from the Pinot Gris grape.
🍾 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
100% Pinot Gris
🍷 ABV
12% - 13.5%