Gewurztraminer Langenberg - 2020

Clos des Aubépines Range

This Gewurztraminer reveals an intense and expressive nose with fresh mango hints balanced with mild spices; Tich and rounded in mouth, it offers aromas of exotic fruits and a finish of nice bitterness with a good length. 

Ideas of food pairing: Our taste buds were delighted with parings as asian, indian and mexican food or just with an Alsacian Munster cheese, but give your creativity free rein and suprise yourself.   

Description of the Terroir : The «Clos des Aubépines» is a very particular soil which is brown with a granitic substrate (granitic composition - mica, quartz and feldspaths). 
It is a composition of eruptive rocks that crack and crumble to shape rough sand (called granitic arena) with light water retention. The granite degradation level is quite advanced, which allows the release of mineral elements. 
This terroir offers lively, expressive and acidulous' wines. They are very delicate and often go along with a sensation of salinity on finish.

Harvest and Vinification: Hand pickings with grape sorting and selection. Slow and progressive pressing Flow of the must by gravity. Natural cold clearing. Introduction into steel tanks to make the alcoholic indigenous fermentation up to 12 months regulated between 16°C and 18°C to finish its growing on thin sediments up to 14 months. Bottling into an Alsace flute and use of a long cork allowing a better preservation, coeur de liege extra nature (center of cork) no treatment.