Domaine Maurice Schoech Alsace Pinot Auxerrois 'Vieille Vigne' 2023

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Domaine Maurice Schoech Alsace Pinot Auxerrois 'Vieille Vigne' 2023This wine accounts for over 10% of the domaines production in most vintages and is the first parcel harvested each fall. The vines are all in excess of 35 years of age. The cpage is not actually a Pinot; its origins have been traced to the Mosel; it can also be referred to simply as Auxerrois. The skin has a slightly bitter note, thus pressing is very light to minimize this element. A dry wine, it often carries at most 8 9 grams of residual sugar.

with yields averaging less than a glass of wine per vine

brooding and granular

This exceptional and rare wine is produced only in the finest vintages

This wine is then left on the fine lees in stainless steel for one year before being bottled

brilliant length and strong minerality leavened by notes of citrus

just two kilometers from Condrieu proper

maxes out around 12% ABV

butter pastry finish

this ferments with 20% whole clusters and spends 18 months in a combination of barriques and demi-muids

and understanding of

8 hectare plot on a south-southeast facing slope at 250 meters altitude

pressed directly