Douceur Automnale Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Munster cheese with caraway seeds, foie gras terrine, fragrant Thai yellow curry
✨ Technical Specifications
Douceur Automnale embodies an off-dry to moelleux expression of late-season Gewurztraminer from the southern hillsides of Alsace. Sourced from south- and east-facing parcels planted on marno-sandstone and clay-limestone soils, the fruit undergoes an extended hang time to concentrate sugars and aromatic precursors while retaining balancing freshness. Vinification is conducted with temperature-controlled stainless steel to protect varietal purity and primary aromatics. Fermentation is arrested to preserve natural residual sugar, followed by aging on fine lees in inert vats prior to bottling in the traditional Flûte d'Alsace.
🍾 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
Gewurztraminer
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5%