2022 AOC - Riesling sur Grés
2022 AOC - Riesling sur Grés
Riesling grown over Gres for Yann is usually the easiest drinking, a little softer, but a less floral profile, more pithy citrus and precise acidity, nimble and easy, a nice little tannic structure in '22.
Cuvée: Riesling sur Grès
Style: Still
Colour: White
Grapes/Blend: Riesling
ABV: 12.5%
Vintage: 2022
Winemaking: Direct-pressed Riesling from their compacted sandstone terroir, on the lower slopes of the Wiebelsberg. Hand-harvested early for freshness in a warm year. Pressed gently over six hours. Fermentation by indigenous yeasts in stainless steel vats, bottled in June, unfiltered.
Sulphur: 10mg/l during fermentation
Soil: Grés
The Durrmann family had made wine for generations as small farmers. Grandad had moved away from farming to become a shoemaker but still kept a few vines on the side. André decided to move back to farming in 1979 and pieced the domaine together from abandoned vineyard sites that were hard to work and no longer commercially viable. Son Yann has worked in the domaine since he was a child and officially took over the business a year ago. André was among the first wave of organic winemakers in Alsace, converting in 1998. Yann has taken this a step further applying a more natural approach in the cellar.