Cuvee du Vieil Armand Muscat
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic Alsatian white asparagus with mousseline sauce, fresh goat cheese salad with herbs, spring vegetable quiche.
✨ Technical Specifications
Cultivated along the southern foothills of the Vosges on marno-sandstone and limestone parcels, this cuvée highlights the dry, aromatic style of Alsatian Muscat. Sourced from Muscat Ottonel and Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains, the grapes undergo gentle pneumatic pressing and temperature-controlled stainless steel fermentation to preserve pristine primary aromatics. Maturation occurs on fine lees in inert vats without oak contact, focusing on crisp varietal character.
🍾 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
Muscat
🍷 ABV
12% - 12.5%