Gewurztraminer Haguenau Bergheim
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Munster cheese, spicy Thai curry, roasted duck
✨ Technical Specifications
The Haguenau lieu-dit, situated in the historic commune of Bergheim, is renowned for its heavy, marly-limestone soils that impart a profound structural depth and intense minerality to the Gewurztraminer grape. Domaine Rolly Gassmann approaches this terroir with their signature patience, allowing the grapes to achieve optimal, often late-harvest ripeness before undergoing a slow, natural fermentation. The wine is aged extensively in traditional large wooden casks and held in the estate's cellars for years before release. This meticulous process coaxes out an incredibly aromatic profile rich in exotic fruits, lychee, ginger, and sweet baking spices, balanced by a luxurious texture and a vibrant, mineral-driven acidity that preserves freshness over decades.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grapes
Gewurztraminer