Domaine Ostertag - Riesling Grand Cru Muenchberg 2019 (1.5L)
Price: $204.99
| Producer | Domaine Ostertag |
| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Varietal | Riesling |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Sku | 65414 |
| Size | 1.5L |
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Domaine Ostertag Description
To call André Ostertag a revolutionary winemaker is to tell just half the story. He is a pioneer, certainly, but also an ardent environmentalist (as demonstrated in both his wine and his sculpture, another passion). After training in Burgundy, André returned to the family domaine in Alsace with renewed zeal: he lowered yields considerably and introduced viticultural and vinification techniques from other regions to his own home ground. The 1996 vintage marked his first collaboration with KLWM, and the following year he brought biodynamic viticulture to his fourteen hectares of vineyards, including his flagship parcel in the Muenchberg Grand Cru.
There is poetry to Ostertag’s practices. He looks for the nuance of terroir rather than the typicity of a grape varietal. He ferments the majority of his wines completely dry, so their versatility at the table surpasses that of many other wines from the region. He rejects formulaic, scientifically engineered wines, and since going biodynamic in 1997, has been an active member of the natural farming community.
The Muenchberg Vineyard:
From the Alsatian “muench” meaning monk, this vineyard is named for the Cistercian monks who originally planted vines here in the 11th-12th centuries. In a south-facing amphitheater in Nothalten at the foot of the Vosges mountains, the Muenchberg site combines volcanic sediment and the pink sandstone of the Vosges with a touch of limestone. The vineyard offers definition, elegance, and great length and class to the Riesling (1.65 ha) and Pinot Gris (0.40 ha, aka A360P) planted here.
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