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⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Tarte flambée (flammekueche), steamed trout with lemon butter, fresh goat cheese salad.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted as an approachable, fruit-forward interpretation of the southern Alsatian foothills, this cuvée sources from clay-limestone and sandstone parcels farmed under certified sustainable practices. The grapes undergo direct pneumatic pressing followed by static cold settling. Vinification takes place entirely in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks to retain primary aromatics and brisk natural acidity, resting on fine lees briefly without malolactic fermentation or oak influence before bottling.
🍾 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.
🍷 ABV
12.5%