Heimbourg Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled trout, roasted poultry, goat cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Heimbourg lieu-dit, situated on a steep, wind-swept hill overlooking the valley of Munster in Turckheim, is renowned for its complex geology dominated by oligocene limestone and calcareous clay. This terroir imparts a distinctive, structural minerality to the Riesling vines planted here. Domaine Zind Humbrecht treats this vineyard with biodynamic rigor, allowing the grapes to ripen slowly under the late afternoon sun of its west-facing slopes. The wine is crafted using traditional, slow fermentations with indigenous yeasts in large, neutral oak foudres, resulting in a Riesling of immense depth, vibrant acidity, and a characteristic flinty, saline finish that reflects its ancient limestone soils.
🍾 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
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5