Turckheim Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai curry, classic Munster cheese, roasted duck with five-spice.
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from the warm, gravelly alluvial soils of the valley floor in Turckheim, this Gewurztraminer is a masterful expression of one of Alsace's most flamboyant noble grapes. Domaine Zind Humbrecht utilizes biodynamic farming and slow, natural fermentations to capture the intense, exotic character of the terroir. The gravelly soils of Turckheim heat up quickly, allowing the Gewurztraminer grapes to achieve optimal phenolic ripeness, resulting in a wine of immense aromatic complexity, rich texture, and a characteristic touch of spice, without losing its essential sense of place.
🍾 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%