Wintzenheim Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai curry, Munster cheese, roasted duck
✨ Technical Specifications
Domaine Zind Humbrecht's Wintzenheim Gewurztraminer is a masterful expression of one of Alsace's most aromatic noble grapes, grown in the warm, gravelly, and limestone-silt soils of the Wintzenheim basin. This unique terroir, combined with the estate's strict biodynamic farming and slow, indigenous yeast fermentations, yields a Gewurztraminer of immense character. Historically, the sun-drenched slopes of Wintzenheim have been prized since Roman times for producing wines of exceptional ripeness and aromatic intensity. This cuvée captures that heritage, offering a rich, textured palate bursting with classic notes of lychee, rose petals, and exotic baking spices, balanced by a fine, mineral-driven structure. It represents a harmonious bridge between the grape's natural opulence and the estate's signature precision.
🍾 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%