The 2022 Cremant is pure wine - no added SO2, from 75% Pinot Blanc, 25% Pinot Auxerrois, grown on clay/limestone with alluvial soils and brown limestone, high in iron. The secondary fermentation is with native yeasts, finishing totally dry. A...

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...

100% Pinot Auxerrois from Pierre and Chantal Frick, zero added SO2. The palate shows firm acidity with dense pear, apple, stone, almond and herbal flavors, finishing with mineral, citrus and pear. This gets better with aeration showing more density and...

This lovely skin contact of Riesling hails from the Carriere vineyard. Zero added SO2. Notes here are of chamomile tea and stone fruit. A very delicate style, not as bombastic or eye-catching as the Pinot Gris or Gewurztraminer maceration wines,...

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. 

Though it seems like a relatively new category, it turns out winemakers in Alsace have been making skin contact wines for some time. The first may have been Bannwarth, who experimented with qvevri (georgian clay anforae). Then, along with the...