Riesling Selection Vieilles Vignes
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2034
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
choucroute garnie, grilled sea bass, roasted pork loin
✨ Technical Specifications
Maison Trimbach's Riesling Selection de Vieilles Vignes is a masterclass in Alsatian purity, sourced from select old-vine parcels surrounding the historic village of Ribeauvillé. These vines, averaging over 40 years of age, plunge their roots deep into complex limestone and clay soils, yielding a remarkably concentrated and structured wine. True to the Trimbach signature, this Riesling is vinified dry without malolactic fermentation, preserving its laser-like acidity and pristine varietal character. The result is a wine of incredible tension, marked by intense stony minerality, vibrant citrus, and a subtle petrol complexity that develops beautifully with age. It represents a bridge between Trimbach's classic Riesling and their ultra-premium single-vineyard bottlings, capturing the essence of Alsatian terroir.
🍾 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
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5%