Pinot Gris Reserve
⏳ Drinking Window
2012 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted duck, creamy mushroom risotto, strong cheeses like Munster
✨ Technical Specifications
Domaine Rolly Gassmann's Pinot Gris Reserve is a sublime showcase of the traditional, opulent Alsatian style. Sourced from the complex, mosaic-like soils of Rorschwihr—where clay, silt, and limestone intermingle—this wine benefits from the estate's signature philosophy of extended cellar aging before commercial release. Historically, Pinot Gris in Alsace was referred to as 'Tokay d'Alsace,' a moniker steeped in local folklore suggesting the vines were brought from Hungary by a 16th-century general, though modern science has disproven this connection. Rolly Gassmann embraces the grape's capacity for rich, off-dry complexity, crafting a wine with a deep golden hue, luscious texture, and a striking balance of ripe orchard fruits, smoky honeyed undertones, and a persistent mineral finish.
🍾 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
Pinot Gris
🍷 ABV
Pinot Gris