Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Munster cheese, Thai green chicken curry, Foie gras terrine
✨ Technical Specifications
Grown across the sheltered, sun-drenched hillsides of southern Alsace, this Grand Cru Gewurztraminer reflects topsoils rich in clay-limestone and sandstone. Slow ripening along the lower slopes allows for maximum aromatic concentration and phenolic maturity while retaining balancing freshness. Grapes undergo pneumatic pressing followed by temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel to retain pure varietal aromatics, resting on fine lees before bottling to build textural richness.
🍾 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
13.5%