Oberer Weingarten Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Munster cheese, spicy Thai curry, roasted duck
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic village of Rorschwihr, the Oberer Weingarten lieu-dit is renowned for its complex marly-limestone soils, which date back to the Middle Ages when local monasteries meticulously mapped and praised these specific slopes. Domaine Rolly Gassmann crafts this Gewurztraminer with an uncompromising commitment to patience, allowing the grapes to achieve optimal, often late-harvest ripeness. Fermented slowly with indigenous yeasts and aged extensively in traditional large oak foudres, the wine emerges as a masterclass in Alsatian opulence. It weaves together intense aromas of lychee, Turkish delight, and exotic baking spices with a rich, velvety texture, all balanced by a surprising vein of limestone-driven minerality that prevents the residual sweetness from overwhelming the palate.
🍾 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
🍷 ABV
13-14%