Tradition Pinot Noir
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 1 to 4 years from vintage to maximize vivid red-fruit expression.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roast poultry with fresh herbs, charcuterie platters with terrines and cornichons, or seared salmon with a light mushroom reduction.
✨ Technical Specifications
Cultivated on foothill parcels along the southern sub-Vosgian slopes, where clay-limestone and sandstone colluvium provide moderate fertility and steady drainage, this red cuvée highlights the delicate, fruit-forward dimension of Alsace Pinot Noir. Fermentation takes place with a short skin-contact maceration under strict temperature control in stainless steel vats to preserve fresh aromatics and soften the extraction of tannins. The wine matures entirely in inert stainless steel or neutral large vessels without new oak influence, emphasizing crisp berry profile, bright varietal transparency, and supple drinkability.
🍾 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 Noir
🍷 ABV
12.5-13%