Gewurztraminer Brandhurst Selection de Grains Nobles
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roquefort or other intense blue cheeses, pan-seared foie gras, apricot or pear tarts
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic village of Rorschwihr, where viticultural records date back to the Carolingian era, the Rolly Gassmann Gewurztraminer Brandhurst Sélection de Grains Nobles is a monument to patience and the transformative power of noble rot. The Brandhurst lieu-dit, characterized by its complex clay-limestone soils, provides an ideal microclimate for the development of Botrytis cinerea. To craft this rare nectar, harvesters perform painstaking, successive passes through the vineyard, hand-selecting only the most perfectly shriveled, botrytized berries. In the cellar, the wine undergoes a slow, natural fermentation before being subjected to Rolly Gassmann's legendary extended aging regime. The result is a sweet wine of breathtaking complexity, balancing rich honeyed, exotic fruit, and spice notes with a vibrant, mineral-driven acidity that prevents it from ever feeling heavy.
🍾 About the Producer
Domaine Rolly Gassmann emerged in 1967 through the marriage of Marie-Thérèse Rolly and Louis Gassmann, unifying two families with winemaking lineages in Alsace dating to 1676 and 1611 respectively. Situated in Rorschwihr along the complex Ribeauvillé fault line, the estate commands over 50 hectares characterized by a mosaic of 21 distinct limestone-dominant subsoil profiles. Opting out of the Alsace Grand Cru hierarchy in favor of expressing traditional historic lieux-dits, current winemaker Pierre Gassmann operates strictly within biodynamic rhythms. The viticultural approach champions late physiological and phenological harvesting, intentionally courting noble rot across micro-parcels. In the cellar, natural fermentations proceed unhurried for four to six months. Celebrated for an obsessive dedication to bottle maturation, Rolly Gassmann stores millions of bottles in a state-of-the-art multi-level cellar before commercial release. The benchmark portfolio spans opulent, long-lived expressions from lieux-dits such as Silberberg, Kappelweg, and Pflaenzerreben, alongside lusciously concentrated Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles.
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