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Pinot Blanc Auxerrois Vieilles Vignes, Schoffit - 2016

Name: Pinot Blanc Auxerrois Vieilles Vignes, Schoffit
Brand: Dom. Schoffit
SKU: 45976
Price: 21.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 45976 750mL

Old vine wine from Alsace is truly a thing of great beauty. This Pinot Blanc and Auxerrois blend comes from 80 year- old vines planted in gravel soil. The steep sloped vineyards outside of Colmar are tended by the second generation winemaker Bernard Schoffit. Dry, with medium body, and singing acidity, aromas of stone fruits and dried ginger. Pair this with chourcoute au poisson.

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Color

White

Vintage

2016

Country

France

Region

Alsace

Producer

Dom. Schoffit

Grape Variety

Pinot Blanc

Auxerrois

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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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...

Auxerrois

Auxerrois is the name of a low-acid white grape widely planted in Alsace, as well as in Germany and Luxembourg. It is also the name used for the black Malbec grape in Cahors, where it is the principal wine grape. The list goes on: Pinot Gris is known as "Auxerrois Gris" in Alsace, and at one time Chardonnay was called "Auxerrois Blanc" in the Moselle region (though this last term fell into disuse after Chardonnay's huge boom in popularity). Alsatian Auxerrois is used in Crémant d'Alsace, and in...