Tradition Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Choucroute garnie, pan-seared trout with lemon and brown butter, fresh goat cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Grown across the foothills of the southern Vosges, this cuvée captures the mineral tension and aromatic clarity characteristic of Alsace Riesling. Cultivated under sustainable HVE 3 viticultural protocols on slopes featuring clay-limestone and marno-sandstone mosaics, the fruit experiences prolonged hang times facilitated by the Vosges rain shadow. Fermentation is carried out entirely in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks to preserve primary fruit intensity and pristine natural acidity, followed by brief maturation on fine lees without oak influence.
🍾 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
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12-12.5%