Pinot Noir Reserve
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled salmon, charcuterie board
✨ Technical Specifications
While Alsace is globally renowned for its white wines, its history with Pinot Noir runs deep, dating back to the Middle Ages when red wines dominated the region's vineyards. Maison Trimbach's Pinot Noir R serve is a beautiful tribute to this heritage, crafted from carefully selected parcels around Ribeauvill characterized by limestone and clay soils. Unlike many heavy, oak-laden modern Pinot Noirs, Trimbach champions a style of purity and restraint. The grapes undergo a traditional maceration to extract delicate tannins and vibrant color, followed by aging in stainless steel and neutral oak casks. This preserves the grape's bright red-fruit character, resulting in a wine of exceptional freshness, subtle earthy complexity, and a refined, elegant structure that reflects the cool-climate terroir of Alsace.
🍾 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%