Domaine d'Ollwiller Rose
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Tarte flambée with bacon and onions, grilled river trout, charcuterie platters
✨ Technical Specifications
Originating from the historic Domaine d'Ollwiller parcel at the southern edge of the Vosges foothills, this rosé is crafted exclusively from Pinot Noir. The vines thrive on south and southeast-facing slopes featuring weathered marno-limestone and sandstone topsoils, shielded from rain by the Vosges peaks. After a brief skin contact maceration or direct gentle pneumatic pressing to extract a pale salmon hue, the must undergoes cool fermentation in temperature-regulated stainless steel vats to preserve pure red-berry aromatics and bright regional acidity, completely bypassing oak aging.
🍾 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
12.5% - 13.0%