Alsace AOC Riesling 2021 - Pierre Frick

Alsace AOC Riesling -  Pierre Frick 

Pierre Frick's Riesling is a wine made from grapes of the same name from the Krottenfues-Rouffach vineyard located on marly-sandstone soil. The harvest is manual, and after pressing the fermentation takes place spontaneously using indigenous yeasts. No addition of sulfur during winemaking. Aging in oak barrels on the fine lees for six months. No clarification before bottling. A wine that has intense and fine aromas of citrus, white flowers and white peach. In the mouth it is very mineral with subtle acidity and long persistence.

Service

We taste the Riesling Rot Murlé at a temperature around 10/12 ° C. It is recommended to serve it in balloons. Wine to drink immediately but leave to rest in the cellar for a few years, can give great emotions. These natural wines are not stabilized and need to be stored at suitable temperatures that can be guaranteed by a cellar or apartment cellar, in order not to compromise their durability over time.

Pairings

The Riesling Rot Murlé is ideal as an aperitif, with first fish dishes, to try with mussels at the mouclade.

Cellar: Pierre Frick

Domaine Pierre Frick is located in Pfaffenheim, a small village in southern Alsace, just a few kilometers from Colmar. The Frick family cultivates vineyards in these areas for generations, and today with the last one, Pierre has come to Pierre, and his wife, Chantal, and his son, Thomas, assist in conducting the work. Pioneer of natural wine wines, Pierre Frick has embraced biological philosophy in 1970 to move to biodynamics in 198. The vineyard hectares are 12 divided into 12 parcels, including 3 Grand Cru: Steinert in Pfaffenheim, Vorbourg and Rouffach Eichberg in the village of Eguisheim. In vineyards, biodynamic principles are applied strictly. Forbidden for any herb, the protection of the disease is entrusted to Bordeaux mash and to the weighted use of copper and zinc. Harvest manual with choice of bunches strictly, and in natural winery fermentations, only native yeasts and before bottling the wines are not clarified. Very wide range of wines produced by Sylvaner, Riesling and Gewurztraminer based whites, red with Pinto Nero products for Cremant obtained from Riesling grapes. Each year Pierre Frick produces Ceuvèe produced without sulphites. A detail since 2002 for bottling wines is no longer using cork stoppers but steel capsules that ensures homogeneous refinement and increased sealability over time.