Alsace
Alsace
Wines from the Alsace region in France
Beck-Hartweg 2022 Alsace "Tout Naturellement" Blanc
This is a blend of Pinot Blanc, Sylvaner, Pinot Gris and Pinot Auxerrois from sandy silt soils in Laubenhutt and Blettig, fermented in old oak casks for 8-10 months. There is no filtration and no added sulfites. It's a deep...
$19.99
Barth, Laurent 2022 Gewurztraminer
Laurent Barth's village-level Gewurztraminer is from organic vines in Kientzheim worked by horse. The wine has body and some fruit, but is for the most part quite dry and subtle, with complex aromas of tea, lemon, brown spice and flowers...
$21.99
Barth, Laurent 2022 Racines Metisses
Laurent Barth's "Racines Metisses" is a delightful blend of many grape varieties from his tiny organic estate in Bennwihr. Always around 50% Pinot Auxerrois (fermented separately), with Muscat, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer, and a touch of Riesling. The idea here is...
$22.99
Beck-Hartweg NV Tout Naturellement Pet-Nat Rosé
Though many of the wines from Beck-Hartweg might shock or delight a wine drinker (depending on how shocked or delighted they are by hazy, unfiltered wines), the Tout-Naturellement is truly the "funky" one. Almost like a red raspberry and pink...
$20.99
Beck-Hartweg NV Cremant D'Alsace Brut
This is a fresh and clean Cremant, unlike the no SO2 added wines, this has a small addition of sulfites. Blend of Pinot Blanc, Pinot Auxerrois, and Riesling.
$21.99
Beck-Hartweg 2021 Riesling Grand Cru Frankstein
This is a memorable Riesling from two parcels in the Grand Cru of Frankstein, which rests above the town of Dambach-la-Ville on a fault of granite. Frauenberg is a parcel that gives small berries that Florian and Mathilde find to...
$29.99
Beck-Hartweg 2022 Alsace "Granite"
This is a field blend that was made to show the character of the soil in Dambach. Florian and Mathilde selected three vineyards that produced what they call the most "salivant" wines (salivant roughly translates to mouth-watering). This quality is...
$24.99
Beck-Hartweg 2022 Alsace GC Frankstein
Formerly known as 'Cuvée Lily,' named after Florian and Mathilde's daughter, the Grand Cru Frankstein is an ancient style of Alsatian wine (ancient as in more common in the early 1900s and earlier, before mono-varietal wines became the norm in...
$29.99
Beck-Hartweg 2023 Alsace Riesling Dambach
This Riesling comes from three plots around Dambach-La-Ville, all with similar granitic sandy and stony soils. Grapes are pressed and ferment naturally in old oak casks before being bottled unfiltered and with no added sulfites. It's a dry expression with...
$21.99
Dirler-Cade 2022 Riesling
Hailing from the Belzbrunnen plot and a selection from their four Grand Crus midway between Colmar and Mulhouse. This biodynamic wine is a lovely example of dry, pure Alsatian Riesling with vibrant acidity, crunchy minerality and juicy peachade; light on...
$27.99
Frick, Pierre 2020 Cremant D'Alsace
The 2020 Cremant is pure wine - no added SO2, from 50% Pinot Blanc, 25/25 Auxerrois and Pinot Gris grown on clay/limestone with alluvial soils and brown limestone, high in iron. The secondary fermentation is with native yeasts, finishing totally...
$27.99
Frick, Pierre 2022 Strangenberg Pinot Noir
The Frick 2020 Pinot Noir "Strangenberg" is from grapes grown at the summit of a dry hill, with brown calcerous soils over hard limestone bedrock. The grapes undergo a fifteen day whole-cluster fermentation and are then pressed, with no addition...
$37.99
Frick, Pierre 2012 Riesling Steinert Grand Cru
Grand Cru Steinert is the steepest vineyard in Pfaffenheim with bedrock of limestone covered with thin stony soil and rocks with fossilized shells, very dry and porous, famous for wines with intense mineral flavors.
$49.99
Frick, Pierre 2021 Alsace Bergweingarten
100% Sylvaner, Pur Vin Nature with no added SO2, from the lieu-dit "Bergweingarten" on brown calcerous soils, mid-slope, aged on the lees for seven months in old foudre. This is a vibrant dry Sylvaner, drinking more like a dry Riesling.
$28.99
Frick, Pierre 2022 Alsace "Voyage"
The 2022 Alsace "Voyage" is an assembly of the end-of-press of all the estate's varieties, bottled with zero added SO2. It's a colorful invitation from all the domain's terroirs and grapes, showing a beautiful pink/rose hue and vibrant aromas of...
$27.99
Frick, Pierre 2022 Alsace Gewurztraminer Maceration
The 2022 Frick Gewurstraminer Macération is from two parcels: Terroir Krottenfues, soil marno-gréseux, high on a slope above grand Cru Vorbourg, and from a limestone terroir below Grand Cru Steinert, facing due east. Grapes see ten-days of whole-cluster maceration before...
$31.99