Myrtille
⏳ Drinking Window
Serve well-chilled as a digestif, over crushed ice, or topped with Crémant d'Alsace as an aperitif.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Ideal in a Kir Alsacien with dry sparkling wine, poured over vanilla bean ice cream, or paired alongside dark chocolate tart and Alsatian fruit tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted in Alsace via the maceration of wild bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus) in neutral agricultural spirit, followed by gentle filtration and precise sugar addition to create a traditional fruit liqueur. Bottled unaged without oak contact to preserve the fresh, forest-berry aromatic profile and tart-sweet balance.
🍾 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.
🍇 Base Material
None (produced from wild blueberries)
🍷 ABV
18%