Pinot Gris Eleve en Fut de Chene
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roast pork tenderloin with apple reduction, creamy wild mushroom risotto, pan-seared veal chops in chanterelle sauce
✨ Technical Specifications
Cultivated along the southern foothills of the Vosges mountains across mixed clay-limestone and sandstone soils, this cuvée demonstrates an atypical stylistic choice for Alsatian Pinot Gris through extended aging in oak casks (fûts de chêne). Vinified under temperature control followed by maturation in oak, the wine integrates gentle oxidative micro-oxygenation and subtle wood-derived complexity with the grape variety's inherent unctuous weight and orchard fruit profile.
🍾 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 Gris
🍷 ABV
13-14%