Chateau Ollwiller Rose
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Salmon tartare, duck breast carpaccio, or fresh strawberry tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Grown across the marno-limestone and sandstone slopes associated with the historic Ollwiller property in southern Alsace, this sparkling rosé is vinified using the traditional method (méthode traditionnelle). Composed entirely of Pinot Noir, the base wine undergoes brief skin contact to extract a gentle salmon-pink hue, followed by temperature-controlled stainless steel fermentation to preserve primary fruit aromatics. Following secondary fermentation in the bottle, the cuvée ages on its fine lees for a minimum of twelve months, developing a fine bead and delicate brioche undertones while maintaining energetic varietal freshness.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1959 at the southern gateway of the Route des Vins d'Alsace, La Cave du Vieil-Armand takes its name from the legendary Hartmannswillerkopf peak, where local winegrowers united after the devastation of World War I to revive the region's historic slopes. Today, this cooperative unites approximately 75 to 80 winegrowing families managing roughly 150 hectares spread across the sub-Vosgian hills between Cernay and Guebwiller. Viticulture benefits from east-to-south exposures, sheltering Vosges microclimates, and diverse clay-limestone and marno-sandstone topsoils, prominently exemplified in the Grand Cru Ollwiller and the historical Château Ollwiller estate. Farmed under Haute Valeur Environnementale (HVE 3) guidelines with expanding certified organic parcels, the estate focuses on terroir-driven precision and purity of varietal fruit. Winemaking emphasizes gentle handling and temperature-controlled stainless steel vinification, yielding expressive dry bottlings, classic Crémant d'Alsace, and celebrated, botrytis-affected Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris Vendanges Tardives and Sélections de Grains Nobles.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
12.0%