Pinot Noir Reserve Cuve 7
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, grilled salmon, wild mushroom tart
✨ Technical Specifications
While Maison Trimbach is globally renowned for its legendary white wines, their dedication to Pinot Noir represents a deep connection to Alsace's medieval past, when red wines dominated the region's hillsides. The Pinot Noir Réserve Cuvée 7 is a sophisticated expression of this heritage, sourced from old vines in prime limestone-rich parcels around Ribeauvillé. Named 'Cuvée 7' in honor of a historic vat in the Trimbach cellars, this wine undergoes meticulous temperature-controlled fermentation followed by aging in a combination of stainless steel and traditional large oak foudres. This careful process ensures the preservation of pristine red berry aromatics while imparting a refined structure and subtle earthy complexity, showcasing a more serious, age-worthy side of Alsatian red winemaking.
🍾 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
Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5%