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Pinot Gris "Altenbourg", Sélection de Grains Nobles, Albert Mann - 2010

Name: Pinot Gris "Altenbourg", Sélection de Grains Nobles, Albert Mann
Brand: Albert Mann
SKU: 43333
Price: 112.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 43333 375 mL

Made with botrytized grapes in the same fashion as a great Sauternes but from the Alsace region of France. The Altenbourg vineyard is in the village of Kientzheim which lays just below the Grand Cru of Furstentum. This is a ripe, powerful, decadent wine that you can age for decades. Ideal after a grand feast.

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Color

White

Vintage

2010

Country

France

Region

Alsace

Producer

Albert Mann

Grape Variety

Pinot Gris

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

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

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About the Producer

Wettolsheim, Haut-Rhin Alsace, France Domaine Albert Mann is the product of the combined efforts of the Mann and Barhelmé families - two prominent winemaking families of Alsace. The Manns have been winegrowers since the start of the 17th century and Barthelmé, since 1654. Today, brothers, Maurice and Jacky Barthelmé, along with their winves, Marie-Claire and Marie-Thérèse manage the historic...

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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...

Pinot Gris

Pinot Grigio is an Italian synonym for the French Pinot Gris variety, but many more people have had Pinot Grigio than a Pinot Gris. At its most basic level, the grape produces varietals that are smooth and easy to drink, and perfect with a huge range of dishes that just beg to be paired with a fresh white wine. There is an entire spectrum of Pinot Gris/Grigio, however, the best of them being subtly aromatic and deeply colored, with formidable structures. Most of Italy's Pinot Grigio is grown in...