Medaille Pinot Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic Alsatian tarte flambée (flammekueche), steamed trout with lemon butter, and mild soft cheeses such as young Munster or chèvre.
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from foothill slopes across the southern end of the Haut-Rhin, this cuvée is predominantly crafted from Pinot Blanc, often co-planted or assembled with Auxerrois as permitted by regional appellation law. Soils comprise a blend of clay-limestone and sandy loam, providing roundness and fruit purity. Vinification occurs in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats to preserve fresh primary aromatics, followed by brief maturation on fine lees without oak contact to retain crispness and varietal definition.
🍾 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 Blanc
🍷 ABV
12-12.5%