Alsace AOC Gewurztraminer Macération 2022 - Pierre Frick

Alsace AOC Gewurztraminer Macération - Pierre Frick

Pierre Frick's Gewurztraminer is a white wine made from grapes of the same name. The harvest is manual and in the cellar the grapes are pressed whole. Only indigenous yeasts are used for fermentation. The wine ages for 7 months on the fine lees in oak barrels. Only one filtration is carried out before bottling, which takes place without clarification and with a minimal addition of sulphites. A wine that on the nose has intense fruity and floral notes typical of gewurztraminer with slightly spicy notes. On the palate it is soft, pleasant and fresh.

Service

We taste Gewurztraminer at a temperature around 10/12 ° C. It is recommended to serve it in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but if left 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 appropriate temperatures which can be guaranteed by a winery or a wine cellar apartment, so as not to compromise its durability.

Pairings

The Gewurztraminer is ideal as an aperitif or paired with fish first courses, main courses of fish, try the crepes with asparagus.

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.