Gewurztraminer Selection de Grains Nobles
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, pan-seared foie gras, fruit tarts
✨ Technical Specifications
Trimbach's Gewurztraminer Selection de Grains Nobles represents the absolute pinnacle of sweet winemaking in Alsace. Produced only in exceptional years when weather conditions allow for the development of Botrytis cinerea (noble rot), this rare nectar is hand-harvested in successive passes through the vineyards to select only the most shriveled, botrytized grapes. The Trimbach family's historical mastery ensures that despite the intense concentration of sugars, honeyed exotic fruits, and spices, the wine retains a remarkable spine of acidity and structural definition. This legendary cuvee is a testament to the patience of the winemakers and the unique microclimate of Ribeauville, where warm autumn days and misty mornings coax out the sublime complexity of the Gewurztraminer grape.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1626 in Riquewihr and later relocated to Ribeauvillé, Maison Trimbach represents thirteen generations of unyielding devotion to Alsatian viticulture. The estate spans over 60 hectares across premier terroirs along the Ribeauvillé fault line, notably in Ribeauvillé, Bergheim, and Hunawihr, where complex Muschelkalk limestone, marl, and sandstone soils intersect with a sheltered semi-continental climate. Following decades of sustainable management, Trimbach achieved official organic certification across all estate holdings and partner grower parcels in 2023. Winemaking philosophy hinges on an uncompromising pursuit of balance, tension, and gastronomic dryness: fruit undergoes gentle pressing, parcel-by-parcel temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel and neutral casks, and absolute prevention of malolactic fermentation, accompanied by patient bottle aging prior to commercial release. Celebrated worldwide for crystalline structure and ageworthiness, the house benchmarks include the monumental single-terroir Riesling Clos Sainte Hune from the Rosacker lieu-dit, the venerable Cuvée Frédéric Emile, and exquisitely sculpted Grand Cru releases such as Mandelberg and Schlossberg.
🍇 Grapes
Gewurztraminer
🍷 ABV
11.5% - 13%