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Domaine Agapé Cremant d'Alsace Price: $22.00    Case Price: $19.80

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Color:
White
Body/Type:
Sparkling
Style:
Traditional
Size:
Bottle, 750 ml
Winery:
Domaine Agapé
Grapes:
Chardonnay
Serve At:
43°-50° F
Region:
France > Alsace

Light and expressive, this Cremant from vigneron Vincent Sipp is crafted from fruit grown in and around his Grand Cru holdings. Elegant, fine bubbles highlight this fine sparkler.

Descended from a long line of viticulturalists, vigneron Vincent Sipp founded his Domaine Agapé in 2007, in the heart of Alsace, nestled in the town of Riquewihr. He holds parcels in some of the finest communes: Hunawihr, Ribeauvillé, and Riquewihr itself. One third of his land sits in the Grand cru parcels of Schoenenbourg, Rosacker, and Osterberg. His 8.5 hectares of vines benefit from the region's excellent clay and limestone soils, and he tends them in accordance with nature, using homemade compost for fertilizer and working to develop the fruit's inborn heartiness to combat disease, rather than resorting to chemicals. Hand selection in the vineyard, careful pressing, and patience in the cellar are all hallmarks of this top new estate.

For centuries this swath of land roughly 15 miles wide has been bandied about by conquering armies, spoils of war like any other. This violent fluctuation, as Jancis Robinson puts it, creates an ambivalence amongst the people towards their winemaking. Neither wholly German nor wholly French, but a blissful combination of both, the wines of Alsace when optimally realized are unique gems in the pantheon of wines. Varietals tend towards the Germanic types, while the winemaking sense is much more French in nature, veering more to a dry style. Unlike most of France, however, Alsace producers usually place the varietal name clearly on the front of their bottles.

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