White Oolite 2020

Oolithe white 2020

Domaine Einhart

Oolithe, a macerated white wine, has a pale apricot color and exudes a beautiful minerality, great freshness, and the integrity of its predominant grape variety, Sylvaner. Aromas of fresh apple enhance it. The second nose opens more fully with elderflower, lily of the valley, and citrus peel. On the palate, the attack is lively, fresh, and mineral, leading to a spicy and persistent finish. The name Oolithe is a direct allusion to the oolitic limestone that makes up the muschelkalk soil from which it is sourced (plots located in Weingarten and Oberer Altenberg). On this soil grow Sylvaner and Gewurztraminer, the two grape varieties that make up this wine, at 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. The average age of the vines is thirty years. The harvest is manual, destemmed, and the brief maceration, on indigenous yeasts, takes place for four days. The wine is aged on fine lees, in stainless steel vats, before being bottled without filtration. From the vine to the cellar, this wine was made without any additives. Decanting is recommended so that it fully expresses all its floral grace.

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Located in the northern part of the Alsatian vineyard, horizontally above Strasbourg, the Einhart estate is a ten-hectare family property 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.