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- Color:
- White
- Body/Type:
- Medium Bodied
- Style:
- Traditional
- Size:
- Bottle, 750 ml
- Winery:
- Jean Louis Schoepfer
- Grapes:
- Gewürztraminer
- Serve At:
- 50°-54° F
- Region:
- France > Alsace
The Schoepfer family have been making wine on their property in the tiny village of Wettolsheim since 1656. Brothers Christophe and Gilles are the current proprietors of the 10 hectare family estate. With such a long and successful tradition of wine growing, one might expect the Schoepfers to rest on their laurels. Instead, they continue to push for higher levels of wine quality, investing in new facilities and equipment in order to help achieve that aim but mindful that the terroir comes first. The stony, gravely soils of their estate contribute a wonderful vivacity to this Gewurztraminer and make it an exceptionally versatile pairing with many dishes.
For 13 generations, the Schoepfer family has been producing dry, racy, fruity, balanced and elegant wines. Their wine style works with traditional cooking as well as more exotic dishes, and it all began in 1656 when Louis Schoepfer bought vineyards in Wettolsheim, very close to the town of Colmar. In the 1960s, Jean-Louis took the estate over from his father and increased simultaneously the size of the estate and the amount of wine produced. In 1975 he built a modern cellar with stainless steel tanks and today it is both of his sons, Christophe and Gilles, who join him at the estate. Together, they have built yet another new state of the art storage and bottling facility. It is with their full personal involvement at every stage of the production process that they craft their wines to respect the terroir, vintage and vineyard.
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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