Chasselas Vieilles Vignes, Schoffit
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Chasselas Vieilles Vignes, Schoffit - 2021

Item # 25524 750mL

The Schoffit estate has 10 hectares planted in gravel-based soils just near Colmar. This older vines bottling comes from the local white grape called Chasselas. Dry, mineraled with yellow fruit aromas on the palate. Pair with a white pizza.

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Color
White
Vintage
2021
Country
France
Region
Alsace
Producer
Dom. Schoffit
Grape Variety
Chasselas
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Staff Pick Notes

Alsatian Chasselas is going extinct. Sure, it thrives in its home district of Switzerland, under the moniker of Fendant, but here, this old and venerable (if often boring) grape has plummeted in the last hundred years from being a significant variety to a paltry half-percent of plantings. Most of that finds its anonymous way into Edelzwicker blends. Schoffit’s may well be the best varietal Chasselas left-- as well it should, as there are probably no older and better-situated Chasselas vines in all of Alsace. Averaging at least sixty years of age, these vines are in the gravelly Colmar lieu-dit of Harth and produce a full-flavored and floral-but-melancholy wine, which invites us to enjoy the present but not forget what has gone before. Enjoy this while it’s still around.

- MCW

Glossary

Alsace

Located on the eastern border of France, on the west bank of the Upper Rhine, adjacent to Germany and Switzerland, Alsace represents the intersection of two wholly different wine cultures that have given birth to a third. Once part of the Holy Roman Empire, Alsace was gradually put under French sovereignty during the 17th Century and eventually made one of the provinces of France. Yet, as evidenced by the persistece of a dialect of Upper German in the region even today, Alsace's ties to Germany...

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Chasselas

A white grape grown all over the world, including Alsace, the Loire, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy. The best Chasselas wines, however, are produced in Switzerland, where the grape is called Fendant and is the most widely planted variety in the country. When made well, Chasselas is soft, welcoming and easy to drink.

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