Tradition Gewurztraminer
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Munster cheese with caraway seeds, Thai green curry with coconut milk, duck breast glazed with ginger and orange
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from gently sloping clay-limestone and sandstone foothill vineyards in southern Alsace, this cuvée captures the exotic, aromatic signature of late-ripening Gewurztraminer. Fermentation proceeds in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats to preserve primary fruit aromatics, followed by aging on fine lees without oak influence, yielding an expressive balance of floral perfume, unctuous mid-palate weight, and varietal spice.
🍾 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%