Pet Nat White 2020

Pet Nat White 2020,

Domaine Einhart

A pinkish-amber color, plenty of freshness, roundness, and fruitiness, with superb, delicious, and fresh bubbles! The expression of the limestone from the Muschelkalk soils is perfect, with a magnificent salinity on the palate. We expected no less from the Einhart estate and its mastery of macerated whites, but also from its experience with sparkling wines, crémant being a local expertise. This natural sparkling wine, subtitled "pure grape," presents itself boldly, without apostrophe. It is made from 70% Sylvaner and 30% Gewurztraminer, grape varieties grown on the property, hand-harvested and destemmed. No additives are added to the vineyard or the winery. The vines, averaging thirty years old, grow on Muschelkalk limestone soils located in Weingarten and Oberer Altenberg. Vinification, plot-by-plot and entirely gravity-fed, begins with a four-day maceration for each grape variety, with indigenous yeasts. The wine spends twelve months on slats before disgorging.

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Located in the northern part of the Alsatian vineyard, horizontally above Strasbourg, the Einhart estate is a ten-hectare family estate whose vines are located on the hillsides that rise between the Alsace plain and the Vosges mountains. The soil is clay-limestone and rich in fossils (muschelkalk, i.e. shell limestone and oolite limestone, and lettenkohle or dolomitic limestone). Since 1990, Nicolas Einhart has been at the helm, now assisted by his son Théo. True to his commitments to the TIFLO association, of which he is co-founder, Nicolas devotes his winemaking work to protecting the land and biodiversity, winemaking without inputs, refusing harmful phytosanitary products and maintaining ecological refuge areas. His estate has been certified organic since 2011. Like Jean-Marc Dreyer, he is resolutely moving towards skin maceration and produces white maceration wines (orange wines) in addition to a Pinot Noir red. Entirely manual harvesting, destemming of the bunches, light punching down and delicate pressing are characteristic of the estate, as well as the separate vinification of each terroir, aging on lees and the absence of filtration before bottling. The wines are pure grape, lively, powerful, invigorating, and transcribe the minerality of the very beautiful terroirs of the Vosges foothills.